THIRD GENERATION

40. Alwin L KRUMWIEDE was born on 11 Jan 1894.⁽⁶⁾ (5) He died on 2 Jun 1972 in Paxton, Ford County, Illinois. ⁽¹⁾(5)

Death takes former area businessman

Alwin L. Krumwiede, 78, a former businessman of the Buckley and Paxton communities, died at Paxton Community Hospital at 5:40 a.m., Friday, June 2. He had resided in the Ford County Nursing Home five years and was hospitalized four days.
Funeral services set 2 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at the St. John Lutheran Church at Buckley with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation Saturday afternoon and evening at the Ford-Baier Funeral Home in Buckley. Graveside military rites by Buckley post 432, The American Legion.
He was born January 11, 1894 at Buckley, son of August F. and Louisa Wolf Krumwiede. He was married in 1918 to Carolina Rust [this marriage is well-documented to have taken place 21 Oct 1917 - the first marriage ceremony to have been performed in the present church building], who died in 1953. In 1954, he married Wilhelmina Lietz Jahnke who died in 1965.
Mr. Krumwiede was a lifelong member of the St. John Church, a World War I veteran and a lifetime member of the Buckley American Legion post, a member of the World War I Barracks and of the Senior Citizens club, both of Paxton.
Surviving are two sons, Armin of Paxton and Arlon of Kankakee; a step-daughter, Mrs. Wilbert Schumacher of Buckley; a stepson, Arthur Jahnke of Tampa, Fla; a sister, Mrs. William (Elsie) Balk of Buckley; a brother, Walter of Buckley; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Mr. Krumwiede was preceded in death by his parents, a sister and a brother in addition to the two wives.
Memorials may be made to the Cancer Fund or to the St. John Church Pew fund.

He was buried on 4 Jun 1972 in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Buckley, Illinois. ⁽²⁾⁽⁵⁾ Section C, Row 10, Plot 10. Tombstone reads, "Ill Pvt Co A 10th Inf WW I"

He was married to Carolena M RUST on 21 Oct 1917 in St. John's Lutheran Church, Buckley, Illinois.⁽⁶⁾ (5) This was the first marriage performed in the present church building. His obituary gives his year of marriage as 1918, but the dedication date of the building is well-documented to have been September 30, 1917; therefore confirming the year 1917 as the year of his marriage. Carolena M RUST(1) was born on 11 Oct 1897 in Buckley, Iroquois County, Illinois.⁽⁵⁾ She died on 15 Jun 1953 in Paxton, Ford County, Illinois. ⁽⁵⁾

Caroline Krumwiede Funeral Rites Held Monday

Funeral services were held on Thursday June 18 at the Kelley Memorial home and at the St. John Lutheran church in Buckley for Mrs. Caroline Krumwiede, 56, who died Monday, June 15 at the Paxton Community hospital, where she had been a patient for nine weeks.
She was born October 11, 1897 in Buckley and was married there October 21, 1916 [this marriage is well-documented to have taken place 21 Oct 1917] to Alvin Krumwiede, who survives. Surviving children are Armand, who recently returned from Korea because of his mother's illness, and Arlon of Kankakee. Two grandchildren survive, and a daughter, Mrs. Augusta Lammers preceded her in death.**
Five sisters survive. They are Mrs. Elizabeth Nieman, Mrs. Anna Lammers, Mrs. Mathilda Kottke, all of Buckley, and Mrs. Bertha Korlick of Chicago. Two brothers, John Rust of Buckley and Frank Rust of Kankakee, survive.
The deceased was a member of St. John's Lutheran church in Buckley, and of the American Legion auxiliary No. 432.
The Rev. Walter Eissfeldt was in charge of services and burial was in St. John cemetery.

** This is an error. Augusta is Carolena's sister, not her daughter.

She was buried on 18 Jun 1953 in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Buckley, Illinois. ⁽²⁾⁽⁵⁾ Section C, Row 10, Plot 10 She died of breast cancer. ⁽⁷⁸⁾ She was known as Lena Alwin L KRUMWIEDE and Carolena M RUST had the following children:

+170 i. Armin KRUMWIEDE.
+171 ii. Arlon J KRUMWIEDE.

He was married to Wilhelmina LIETZ (JAHNKE) on 25 Sep 1954.⁽⁶⁾ Wilhelmina LIETZ (JAHNKE) (1) was born on 12 Dec 1897. She died in 1965. ⁽¹⁾ She was buried in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Buckley, Illinois. ⁽⁷⁹⁾ Section C, Row 5, Plot 5, with her first husband, Albert Jahnke. Tombstone has the spelling Janke. She was also known as Minnie.