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Hutchings, Zollie Cleo
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Name Hutchings, Zollie Cleo Birth 26 Feb 1905 Clark County, Illinois Gender Male Reference Number HUTC.Z001 _FGRAVE 80739330 Military Service World War II, Private First Class, United States Army United States of America Flag, 48 Stars (1912-1959)
In 1912, two stars were added to the United States flag, representing Arizona and New Mexico, bringing the total number of stars to 48. They were arranged in six rows of eight stars each. American fighting men would fight under this flag during four wars: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the beginning of the Vietnam War. (In 1959,…United States Army Private First Class, United States Army and United States Army Air Fores
(Sep 1942-Aug 1948)
United States Army Enlisted Rank Insignia World War II
(1939-1945)Death 16 Jun 1983 Burial Crest Haven Memorial Park, Claremont, Richland County, Illinois Person ID I51920 Carl Wayne Gray Research Last Modified 17 Dec 2024
Father Hutchings, Steven Ellis, b. 12 Dec 1872, Clark County, Illinois d. 23 Feb 1951, Richland County, Illinois
(Age 78 years)
Mother Kester, Amanda Jane, b. 1876 d. 1960 (Age 84 years) Family ID F5578 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Birth - 26 Feb 1905 - Clark County, Illinois Burial - - Crest Haven Memorial Park, Claremont, Richland County, Illinois = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Services for Zollie Hutchings, 78, 215 W. North, who died Thursday, will be in the Summers Funeral Home with Rev. Dwight Jones presiding. Visitation is in the funeral home. Burial
is in Crest Haven Cemetery with full military graveside rites.
Memorials can be made to the Zollie Hutchings Memorial Fund.
He was born in Clark County Feb. 26, 1905, to Stephen and Amanda (Kester) Hutchings. He married Leila Schonert in St. Charles, Mo., Oct. 13, 1940. She survives.
He was retired from the International Shoe Company, attended the First United Methodist Church. He was a veteran of World War II, a member of the Olney Legion, V1W, and Disabled American Veterans.
Other survivors include two step-daughters, Mrs.May Evelyn Toliver, Washburn, and Mrs. Kenneth (Ruby) Yost, West Liberty; a brother, Dennie Levi Hutchings, Parkersburg; five sisters, Violet Carlyle, California, Letha Lewis, Sumner, Grade Goss, Newton, Marjorie Staton, Florida, and a twin sister, Ollie Chance, Lawrenceville; eight step-grandchildren; 15 step-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by five sisters, three brothers, three step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren.
Taken from the Olney Daily Mail, Olney, IL, Jun, 1983.
- Services for Zollie Hutchings, 78, 215 W. North, who died Thursday, will be in the Summers Funeral Home with Rev. Dwight Jones presiding. Visitation is in the funeral home. Burial