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Thomas Jecks

THOMAS JECKS
Thomas P. Jecks, 95, of 3224 16th Ave., Rock Island, who farmed in McHenry County for many years, died at 9:50 this morning in St. Anthony's Hospital where he had been a patient since Sept. 14.
Services will be at 1:30 Monday afternoon in Knox Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Arthur T. Clark, pastor of South Park Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Woodstock.
Friends may call at the mortuary after noon tomorrow.
Mr. Jecks was born Dec. 25, 1857 in McHenry, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis P. Jecks. He was reared there and married Estella M Wright, March 3, 1886, in Woodstock. She died in 1907. He married Mrs. Clara Boynton, March 28. 1910, in Chicago.
In 1910 they moved to Newaygo, Mich. She died there in 1936 and in 1942 he moved to Rock Island to make his home with his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis P. Jecks, where he since resided. Surviving is the son. Preceding him in death were his parents and a daughter.
--The Dispatch, Moline, Illinois, October 10, 1953 Page 10