Clara Viola (Reaktenwalt) Bong (1995)

BEST, BONG, BRADY, MCCOSH, REAKTENWALT, REBHOLZ

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 4/13/2011 at 15:32:30

The Peoria Journal Star
Peoria, Illinois
Wednesday, November 15, 1995
Page D7

PEKIN -- Cora V. Bong, 75, of 1311 Janssen St. died at 10:19 a.m. Monday, Nov. 13, 1995, at Pekin Hospital.

Born Sept. 19, 1920, in Winterset, Iowa, to Carl V. and Florence Blanchard Reaktenwalt, she married Marshall Bong on Dec. 2, 1939, in Burlington, Iowa. He died in June 1940. She later married Frederick Bong on Oct. 12, 1945, in Pekin. He died June 3, 1982. She also was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Jerry (Carol) Rebholz of Metamora and Mrs. Joe (Judy) McCosh of Princeville; five grandchildren; four great- grandchildren; and two sisters, Ruth Brady and Dorothy Best, both of Pekin.

She was a life member of AMVETS Auxiliary Post 235. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Pekin.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Noel-Henderson Funeral Home in Pekin. The Rev. Eric Stefanski will officiate. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.

Burial will be in Glendale Memorial Gardens in Pekin.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association.

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