Age: 92 years, 1 month, 19 days
JOHANNA ROHE
(nee JAEGER)
DOB: January 3, 1894
Crete, IL USA
DOD: February 22, 1986
Daughter of: Otto Bernhard and Ida Sara (nee Lasche) Jaeger
Sister to: Anna (George W. Lunz), Clara (Charles Neuling), Maria, Sophia, Fred “Butch”, Margareta, Helen, Elizabeth (Fredrick A. Opel) and Arthur “Otto” (Florence unknown) Jaeger
Otto Jaeger FamilyStanding: Helen, Elizabeth, Otto, Johanna, Margareta
Sitting: Fred, Sophia, Maria, Clara, Anna
Second wife of Fred Bernard Rohe
Married sometime after 1930
February 27, 1986 – Crete newspaper
Services Held Tuesday For Johanna Rohe, 92
Funeral services were February 25 at Lain Sullivan Funeral Home in Park Forest for Johanna Rohe of Crete. Mrs. Rohe died Saturday, February 22, 1986, at her home.
The Rev. Curtis Lyons, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete, officiated. Entombment was at the Beecher Mausoleum.
Ms. Rohe was born January 3, 1894 in Crete, and was a lifelong Crete resident. She was a retired insurance broker.
Photo from a book “Crete Remembered”
by Carol Triebold and Phyllis Monk
Mrs. Rohe is survived by five nieces, Elizabeth McMillan of Corpus Christi, Texas, Marguerite LaClare of Chicago Heights and Ella Miller of Chicago Heights, Margaret Stevens of Crete, and Hazel Newling of Park Forest; and two nephews, Lawrence and Douglas Newling, both of Park Forest; and a good friend, Hugh Buchanan.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred B. Rohe, a former mayor of Crete, owner of the Farmer’s State Bank of Crete, and the Rohe Agency (insurance and real estate) in 1952.
Johanna’s family members also resting in the mausoleum are:
Husband: Fred Bernard Rohe
Other, more distant family include: Bahlman, Batterman, Bergmeier, Beseke, Bielfeldt, Bohl, Cloidt, Dunlap, Engleking, Fenske, Fick, Fiene, Freerking, Frobose, Graham, Guritz, Hack, Hager, Haltenhof , Heine, Heldt, Hildeman, Hinze, Hoffman, Hoppensteadt, Horn, Hunte, Kaczynski, Kappe, Kilborn, Kirchhoff, Klocksieben, Koch, Langreder, Leder, Maass, Matthias, Mc Carty, Meyer, Monk, Niedert, Ohlendorf, Pansa, Peters, Pralle, Riley, Ristenpart, Rust, Saller, Selk, Struve, Thielman, Vagt, Von Engeln, Wegert, Wehmhoefer, Wiechen, Westphal, Wilkening.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 1:30 p.m. at Spindler-Koelling Crete chapel for Mrs. Clara E. Hager, 82 of Crete, who died Tuesday afternoon at the Suburban Convalescent Center, South Chicago Heights.
Final rites were held Sunday for Mrs. Etta Elizabeth Peters, 72, of 455 Exchange St., Crete. She died Thursday, March 26, at St. James Hospital, after a two week illness.
The Fred W. Saller family received the surprise of their lives last week. Miss Lenore Saller brought home the mail from the post office, and in looking it over, she came to what looked like an invitation to some affair. She looked the envelope over, and on discovery, it was addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saller and daughters (not family) the son being omitted. And in a regularly sisterly manner she began to laugh, and called out: “Ha! Herb, see, you are not invited!” Then she went on reading and in a twinkling of an eye, the sisterly giggle stopped, as she digested the contents, which read something like this: Mrs. Charles H. Bahlman invites you to attend a marriage reception to be given at my home, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Saller, who were married on December 17, 1925. After Miss Lenore recovered her equilibrium, she passed the “surprise” invitation over to her mother, and then the father. They looked at the invitation – then at Herbie – and Herbie fessed up. He and Miss Dorothy Bahlman of Beecher hid themselves away one cold December day, and were quietly made man and wife – and it was no one’s dumb business.
The community joins with family members in mourning the sudden death of Herbert C. Saller, 60, who passed away Monday afternoon, at about 3:30, at the Hazelcrest Hospital. He entered the hospital Friday night and submitted to surgery on Sunday.
It has pleased the Lord of life and death in His wise providence, to take from this earth to His home in heaven the soul of Herbert Charles Saller at the age of 60 years, 4 months and 16 days. Mr. Saller was born in Crete, Illinois on November 29, 1897, one of four children of Fred W. Saller and Sophia Katz. He was brought to His Savior through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism in Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete, being confirmed there in his Christian faith at the age of 14 years. The Rev. Fred E. Brauer officiating in both of these acts. He lived with his parents in Crete during these years and attended high school at Bloom Township High School. On December 17, 1925 he married Dorothy Bahlman of Beecher, Illinois in Chicago, Illinois. He lived with his wife for a few years in Crete and moved with her to Beecher in 1929. To this union four children were born.
In last week’s issue of the Joliet News, the Crete correspondent to that paper gave Mr. Rohe’s reasons for becoming a candidate for the legislature to succeed the late J.H. Alexander, and for which a special election will be held next Tuesday, March 11. Following is the clipping verbatim:
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Fred B. Rohe, of 1561 Main Street, Crete, former president of the Crete Village Board and former Crete Township Supervisor, died Tuesday at St. Francis Hospital, Blue Island, after a long illness. He attained the age of 77 years.
Funeral rites were held, last Thursday afternoon, at Crete Trinity Lutheran Church for Fred Rohe, former mayor of Crete. Burial was in the Mausoleum here.
Rudolph Peters, 61, died yesterday afternoon at his home on Cass Street in Crete after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 1:30p.m. tomorrow from the Hack Chapel, Beecher, to the Trinity Lutheran Church, Crete.
(Editor’s note: What Rudolph’s obituary does not mention is that he was listed as a farmer in the 1920 & 1930 census records and as Janitor for a parochial school in the 1940 census, at age 51. We believe it may have been the Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete)
Rudolph Peters, 61, brother of Mrs. Fred Heldt, passed away at his home in Crete, last Thursday afternoon, after an extended illness.
Injured more than ten days ago in an auto accident while on a tour of the state, Mrs. Fred B. Rohe, wife of the mayor of Crete, died last night in a hospital at Brownsville, Texas.
None of the other passengers in the auto was seriously injured, although Mr. Rohe received treatment at the hospital. It was not known here whether the driver of the other car had been apprehended by police.