Sylvia Irene Egert

1905 - 1995  (90 years)

• Name	Sylvia Irene Egert
  Born	17 Apr 1905	Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	14 Sep 1995	Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA
  Buried	Y  [1]
  Person ID	I329129	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	George Edward Egert,   b. 11 Apr 1868, Lorraine Township, Henry County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 15 Jan 1929, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Agnes Schreiner,   b. 25 Mar 1870, Lorraine Township, Henry County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 22 Apr 1958  (Age 88 years)
  Married	4 Nov 1890	Henry County, Illinois, USA
  Family ID	F110853	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles William Paxton,   b. 27 Jan 1897, Golden, Adams County, Illinois, USA ,   d. Jun 1984, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Children	+ 1. Clifford L. Paxton,   b. 4 Mar 1925, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 10 Dec 2016, Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA  (Age 91 years)   2. Darrell Edwin Paxton,   b. 15 May 1926, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 24 Jul 2001, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA  (Age 75 years)   3. Arlo D. Paxton   4. Warren Fredrick Paxton,   b. 8 May 1928, White County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 19 Apr 1967  (Age 38 years) + 5. Larry Lee Paxton,   b. 21 Aug 1929, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 20 Nov 2017, Rock Falls, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA  (Age 88 years)   6. Lester Paxton + 7. Norman Paxton,   b. 16 Feb 1932,   d. 9 Sep 2016  (Age 84 years)   8. Burdette Paxton
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F110928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S927] Obituary. Sylvia Paxton . Services for Sylvia Irene Pax-ton, 90, of 203 W. 7th St., Prophet-, stown, are 11 a.m. Monday at St. Catherine's .Catholic Church, Prophetstown, where she was a member. Burial ds in Riverside ! Cemetery, Prophetstown. ; Visitation is 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Gardner Funeral Home, Prophetstown, with a rosary re-. cited at 7. A memorial fund has i been established, -w ; Mrs. Paxton died Thursday, Sept. 14, 1995, at CGH Medical1 Center, Sterling. The former Sylvia Egert was ; born April 17, 1905, at the Egert ; homestead in Loraine Township, Henry County, the daughter of George and Elizabeth Schreiner Egert. She married Charles W. Paxton Sept. 27, 1924, in Hoop-pole. He died June 19, 1984. She and her husband were tenant farmers on the Yager, Erd-mann and Ori Dales farms until 1930, when they purchased the Paxton homestead in Portland Township. In time they acquired surrounding farm and timber and also the Dale farm they once tenanted. They retired from farming in 1954 and moved to their present home. She was active in rural school affaire, and was a member of the PTA and school board for the former Sandytown SchooL She was a member of the Women's Society at the church, St. Jude Society, Graymoor Fathers Salesian and Marionist Missions, Friars of the Atonemant and Our Lady of the Snows of Bellevue, Iowa, and France. She was baptized and confirmed as a child at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Hoop-pole. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Burdetta and Robert Siefken, Prophetstown; sons and daughters-in-law Clifford and Helen Paxton and Larry Paxton, both of Prophetstown, Lester and Ruth Paxton, Chillico-the, Arlo and Pauline Paxton, Lanark, El., Darrell and Kay Paxton, Sterling, and Norman Paxton, Silvis; 19 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren. A son, Warren Paxton, is deceased.