| Matthew Kness, 64, succumbs; rites Wednesday
Matthew C. Kness, 64, of 532 30th St., Rock Island, died
Saturday in Illini Hospital, Silvis.
Funeral services will be at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in Van Hoe
Funeral Home, East Moline, and at 9:30 in St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Church, Rock Island, the Rev. George Schroeder, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery, Viola. Visitation is after 2 to 9
p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home, where a rosary will be recited at 7:30.
Mr. Kness was born July 21, 1913, in Viola, a son of John and
Louise Brock Kness.
He never married.
Mr. Kness was an assembler at John Deere Spreader Works in East
Moline for 35 years. He retired in 1969.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Mary Lindquist, Aledo, and four
brothers, John and Vincent, both of Viola; Leo, New Windsor, and Martin, Rock Island.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother.
(December 1977) |
