[From the Peoria Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois, 7 Jan
1993, p. C5.] Ralph Kelso MACOMB -- Ralph S. Kelso, 85, of 1601 E. Jackson died at 12:05 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1993, at McDonough District Hospital. Born July 8, 1907, in Macomb to Edwin S. and Lounita Smith Kelso, he married Lorraine B. Roll on June 3, 1933, in Monmouth. She died April 1, 1986. One brother and one sister also preceded him in death. Surviving are one daughter, Sayra Mollenkamp of Barrington; three sisters, Eleanor Bradford, Lucille Morley and Lorraine Harrell, all of Macomb; and two grandchildren. A farmer, he was a member of Bardolph United Methodist Church and Macomb Masonic Lodge 17, AF&AM. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Dodsworth-Piper- Wallen Funeral Home in Macomb. The Rev. Sidney Crowcroft will officiate. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 tonight at the funeral home. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens. Memorials may be made to his church. |