submitted by Melva Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
August 11, 1952 - Monday, pg 2, col. 4
FLORENCE L. WOODWORTH
Florence Woodworth Dies In Prophetstown
Prophetstown: Mrs. Florence L. Woodworth, 57, died Suinday at 1 a.m. at her farm home near Prophetstown. The body was removed to the Gardner funeral home where friends may call.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. (CST) from the Leon Methodist church with the Rev. Joe Walker, officiating. Burial will be in Leon cemetery.
Mrs. Woodworth had lived in the Prophetstown area 38 years and was a member of the Garden club, the WSCS and the Leon Methodist church. She married Verne Woodworth of Prophetstown here in 1914 and they had lived on their farm since.
Born April 23, 1895, in Albian township, Henry county, the daughter of John and Hannah Schildberg Spath. Mrs. Woodworth received her education in the Albian township schools.
She is survived by her mother, her husband; three sons, Robert V., Los Angeles, Calif., Ray A., Macomb, and Dale B., Prophetstown; two daughters, Mrs. Wallace Erickson, Rock Island, and Mrs. Robert Groves, Jackson, Mich.; two brothers, Raymond Spath and Arthur Spath, Prophetstown; three sisters, Mrs. Mable Woodworth, Prophetstown; Mrs. Harold Winkler, Deer Grove, and Mrs. Pearl Tildon, Chicago; and five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father, one son, one brother and one daughter.
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