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Surnames: Wallace, Calder, Olin, Stine
Classification: Query
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Mrs. Ettie Bell Kohler, 53 years old, wife of Joseph Kohler, 1308 Eighth avenue, Rock
Island, died at 10:15 o'clock this morning at St. Anthony's hospital, Rock Island,
after an illness of five months.
Mrs. Kohler, whose maiden name was Ettie Bell Calder, was born Sept. 8, 1876, in
Kalamazoo, Mich. She was married to John Stine who died in 1907. On July 1, 1925, she
married Joseph Kohler in Kalamazoo, Mich. She had been a resident of Rock Island since
1926.
She is survived by the widower; two sons, John Stine of Rock Island and Willmount Stine of
Aurora, and one sister, Mrs. Katie Wallace of Kalamazoo, Mich.
The body was removed to the Lyons and Lindstrand mortuary, Rock Island, where funeral
services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
There are a few confusing details about this. There is no mention of husbands John Olin
or Lester Sweet. Both sons, John and Willmount went by and still go by the last name of
Olin. In fact, both married under the name of Olin and their children carry that name. I
have been unable to locate a birth certificate of record of birth for Ettie/Etta in
Kalamazoo nor have I been able to locate her marriage records to John Stine or John Olin.
She married in this order Stine, Olin, Sweet, Kohler. On her marriage application to
Lester Sweet, she states her last name is Stine and that she had been married twice
previous.