Hancock County Journal
Carthage, Illinois
Thursday
December 18, 1952
Page 4
Column 1

Funeral for John
F. Rings Held Last
Friday Afternoon

Funeral services for John F. Rings, 72, of Colchester were held Friday afternoon in the Colchester Christian church.  Rev. Lowell Sharrock officiated and burial was in Mt. Auburn cemetery at Colchester.

Rings was found dead in the garage at his home Wednesday afternoon.  He had been carrying buckets of ashes from the basement of his home and placing them in the trunk of his car to be hauled away.  Coroner Roy Louderman of Macomb conducted an inquiry Wednesday night and attributed death to a heart attack brought on by over-exertion.

Rings was born to Ephriam and Margaret Sites Rings in Schuyler county July 15, 1880.  He moved to the Joetta community in 1904 and to Colchester in 1951.  He was a member of the Majorville church.  He married Nellie Peck Dec. 18, 1904.  She died April 12, 1936, and he was married March 10, 1938, to Mrs. Mattie Humphrey, who died Dec. 16, 1951.

He is survived by a son, Ray B. Rings of Harvard; a daughter, Mrs. Guy Bennett of Macomb; a step-daughter, Ardith Sherman, who lived with him in Colchester; four grandchildren, Linda Lou and Nelrose Louderman, Sandra and Meredith Rings; a step-grandchild, Neil Sherman, and a brother, Roy Rings of Macomb rural route.  A brother, Clarence, and two sisters, Susie and Eva Rings, preceded him in death.

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