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Highland News Leader, Monday 8 Jan 2007: Virginia E Koch, 76, ofCentralia, formerly of Mount Olive, Ill., died Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007,at Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mount Vernon. Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Becker & Son Funeral Home inMount Olive. The funeral service is at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Church ofthe Ascension with Father Larry Anschutz officiating. Burial will bein Holy Trinity Cemetery in Mount Olive. Mrs. Koch was born Oct. 10, 1930, in Mount Olive to Michael A. andHelen (Jatcko) Horne. On July 4, 1956, at St. Paul Catholic Church inHighland she married Edward C. Koch and he survives. Mrs. Koch attended Sts. Simon & Jude Catholic Grade School inGillespie and Gillespie High School from 1944 to 1946 and graduatedfrom Benld High School in 1948. She attended Springfield JuniorCollege and the University of Illinois. She was the former owner withher husband of Superior Sports Products in Litchfield. She also hadtaught school in Virden, Ill., and was a secretary in Highland. Shewas a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Centralia and a member ofseveral Belleville Catholic Deanery and Diocesean organizations. She also is survived by two sons, Thomas E. Koch of Salem and John PKoch of Centralia; a daughter, Christina (Bill) Cole of Greenview,Ill.; two sisters, Dolores H. Lee of Mount Olive and Sister HelenMichael Horne O.P. of Springfield; six grandchildren; twogreat-grandchildren; six nieces and nephews and many cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Mary Joan Koch;a granddaughter, Sabrina Cole, and a brother, Michael Horne. Memorials may be made to Holy Trinity Cemetery or as Masses.
Michael
McTiernan
