The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois

December 19, 1993 - Sunday, pg A5

DONALD  E.  WAKENIGHT

Donald E. Wakenight, 53, of Prophetstown, died Dec. 16, at CGH Medical Center. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Gardner Funeral Home, Prophetstown. Burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Prophetstown.  Friends may call at the Funeral Home from 4-6 p.m. Sunday.  A memorial has been established.

Don was born Jan. 21, 1940, in Dixon, son of Raymond and Ethel (Johnson) Wakenight.  He was a graduate of Rock Falls High School.  On Jan. 19, 1963, he married Rita Aldous, of England, in Sterling.  He had been employed at Northwestern Steel and Wire Co., Sterling, where he worked in the conditioning yard of the 24" mill until retiring in January of this year.  Don was an avid gardener and enjoyed many other things that kept him busy.

He is survived by his wife; daughters, Sheila Hendrix of Sterling, Donna Wakenight, Patty Ohnen, Jennifer Wakenight, and JoAnne Wakenight, all of Prophetstown; sons, Donald J. and Raymond E. Wakenight both of Prophetstown; his mother, Ethel Guinn of Sterling; his father Raymond and step-mother Pauline Wakenight of Galt; brothers Robert Wakenight of Wis., Douglas Wakenight of Newport News, Va.; sisters Linda Wolker of Milledgeville, Vallerie Hollaway and Grace Bayer, both of Rock Falls; step-brother Larry Schutt of Morrison; step-sisters, Sandra Saurbaugh of Chillicothe, Ill., and Ruthann Pyle of Mo.