William Joseph Weeks and Lucy May Wright

Name: William Joesph Weeks
Birth: Feb. 22, 1880
Death: Mar 11, 1950
Grave: Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee
Spouse: Lucy May Wright
Birth: Sept 1881
Death: 1930
Grave: Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee
Marriage: Oct. 13, 1903
Parents: Joseph Weeks and Anna Green
Children: William J, Hiram, William P, Lawrence, Lucille and Gladys
William Joseph Weeks c. 1897

Obituary - March 11, 1950
Funeral Monday For W.J. Weeks, Former Grocer

Funeral services for William J. Weeks, 70, of Kankakee, who died at 12:10 p.m. Friday at a nursing home, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Paul Episcopal church with the Rev. James G. Parker officiating.

Friends may call at Hertz funeral home Sunday and until the time of services Monday. Burial will be in Mound Grove cemetery.

Mr. Weeks was born Feb. 22, 1880 in Canada. He came to Kankakee when he was 12 years old. On Oct. 13, 1903 he married the former Lucy May Wright in Kankakee. Mrs. Weeks died in 1930. Mr. Weeks was connected with the retail grocery business in Kankakee for many years. For the past eight years he has been employed in various capacities by the state.

He is survived by sons Hiram and Lawrence of Kankakee and the Rev. William Weeks of Pasadena Texas, daughters Mrs. Lucille Larson of Chicago and Mrs. Gladys Colborn of St. Davids, Pa, and five grandsons.

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