Robert F. Russell

Male 1910 - 1998  (88 years)


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  • Name Robert F. Russell 
    Born 14 Jun 1910  Speer, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Dec 1998  Peoria, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Swan Lake Memory Gardens, Peoria, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I87294  Virts
    Last Modified 24 Aug 2016 

    Family 1 Flossie Alice Jarrett,   b. 27 Nov 1917, Clyde Park, Montana Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 May 1995, New Albany, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 24 Oct 1934  Livingston, Montana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Russell,   b. 1 May 1944, Galesburg, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 May 1944, Galesburg, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 24 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F35379  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 WIlma Pitzer,   d. 1980, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 5 Jan 1955  Bartonville, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 24 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F35388  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Journal Star, December 10, 1998

      PEORIA -- Robert F. Russell, 88, of 3507 N. Molleck Drive died at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1998, at Proctor Hospital.

      Born June 14, 1910, in Speer to John S. and Alice Reynolds Russell, he married Florence Jarrett in 1935 in Livingston, Mont. He later married Wilma Pitzer on Jan. 5, 1955, in Bartonville. She died in 1980 in Arizona.

      One brother and two grandchildren also preceded him in death.

      Surviving are two sons, John of Dunlap and Carl of Bartonville; two daughters, Mrs. John (Vera) Wendle of Mulberry, Fla., and Wanda Freese of Cleveland, Tenn.; one brother, Arthur of Edelstein; 14 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

      He was a truck driver for Burlington Truck Lines for 31 years, retiring in 1975. He was a member of Northminster Presbyterian Church and the Teamsters Retirees Club.

      Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Cumerford-Endsley-Diggle Funeral Home. The Rev. Dr. Roane Deckert will officiate. Visitation will be one hour before services at the funeral home. Burial will be in Swan Lake Memory Gardens. Arrangements are by Richard S. Wilton, funeral director through the funeral home.

      Memorials may be made to Northminster Presbyterian Church building fund.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1572] Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950.


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