Visitation:
Sunday, May 31 from 4 p.m. tp 6 p.m. and on
Monday, June 1 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Moss
Funeral Home in Breese.
Service:
Monday, June 1, at 10 a.m. at the funeral home.
Funeral home: Moss Funeral Home, 535 N.
Fifth Street, Breese, IL 62230
Obituary
BREESE - Charlotte B. Sprengel, nee Cumby, age 83 of
Breese, born April 24, 1932 in Alton, died
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
in Belleville.
Mrs. Sprengel attended Lincoln High School in
Lincoln and graduated in 1950. She then enrolled at
Lincoln College in Lincoln and later transferred to
the University of Illinois where she graduated in
1954 with a B.S. in Accounting. Charlotte worked as
an accountant for many years, and after moving to
Breese in 1969, she served as the District Librarian
and Business Manager for Breese Elementary School
District #12 from 1971-1993.
She was a member of St. John’s United Church of
Christ in Breese, Illinois Retired Teachers
Association, St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary, and
the Silver Creek Chapter of the Daughters of the
Revolution.
Charlotte was preceded in death by her parents,
Charles William and Hilda Bernice, nee Blair, Cumby;
a brother, Gerald Cumby; and a brother-in-law,
Grover Everett.
Surviving is her husband, James “Jim” Sprengel, whom
she met while attending Lincoln College and married
on June 12, 1954 at Wesley Chapel in Urbana; her
daughters, Lisa L. Brooks and husband Len of Iowa
City, IA, Lori L. Andrews and husband Carey of
Fairview Heights, and Bonnie A. Pinner and husband
David of Prairie View; her grandchildren, Natalie
Bontrager and husband Nevin, Stephanie Voelker and
husband Evan, Andrew Brooks, Ava Andrews, Elsie
Andrews, Matthew Pinner and wife Melissa, Jennifer
Wagman and husband Chris; a great-grandson, Liam
Pinner; her step-mother, Mary Jane Cumby of
Reynolds; siblings, Patricia Everett of Taylorville,
Linda Jackson of Lincoln, Michael Cumby of Florida,
Mary Jeanne Doonan and husband Ace of Reynolds, and
Charles Cumby and wife Connie of Florida; and a
sister-in-law, Janet Cumby of Burlington, NC.
Funeral Services will be Monday, June 1, 2015 at
10:00 a.m. at the Moss Funeral Home in Breese with
Rev. Phil Chapman officiating. Interment will take
place in Greenpond Cemetery, Pearl. |
Visitation will be Sunday, May 31, 2015 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
and again on Monday, June 1, 2015 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. at
the Moss Funeral Home in Breese.
Memorials can be made to the Breese Elementary School
District #12 Library, St. John’s United Church of Christ, or
to Legacy Christian Academy, Caseyville, IL and will be
received at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy can be sent to
www.mossfuneralhome.com |