Submitted by Melva Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
December 7, 1953 - Monday, pg 2 col 2
MARGARET (Peters) BAUER
Mrs. Margaret Bauer, Dixon, Dies Saturday
Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Mrs. Margaret Bauer, 72, of 1123 Peoria Ave., Dixon, who passed away Saturday at 9 p.m. following a brief illness.
Wednesday's services will take place at 9 a.m. at the Jones Funeral Home and at 9:30 in St. Patrick's Catholic Church with Rev. T. F. Green officiating. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Harmon.
Mrs. Bauer was a lifelong resident of this area.
She was born in Jordan Township, Whiteside County, on March 16, 1881, a daughter of Philip and Katherine Heiser Peters. She married Joseph Bauer and resided in Harmon until 1934 when the family moved to Dixon.
Mrs. Bauer was preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1940, two brothers and two sisters.
Survivors include one daughters, Mrs. George Lebre, Dixon; one son, Clarence of Sterling; two sisteers, Mrs. Matt Grennan Sr., and Mrs. John Bauer, both of Sterling; and nine grandchildren.
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