Coping with Grief
We would like to offer our sincere support to anyone coping with grief. Enter your email below for our complimentary daily grief messages. Messages run for up to one year and you can stop at any time. Your email will not be used for any other purpose.
79 year old Carolyn Rathjen formerly of McLeansboro died at 1:00am Sunday July 26, 2020 at Wabash Christian Village in Carmi. She was on December 4th 1940 to Howard J. and Jewell Byrd Struck.
She is survived by a daughter Valerie Flannigan of McLeansboro and two grandchildren She worked 8 years as Deputy Circuit Clerk in Jackson, County.
Graveside services will be held at 2pm Wednesday July 29th at Pleasant Grove Memorial Park in Murphysboro. Friends may call at 11:00am on July 29th at the Gholson Funeral Home in McLeansboro. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or the ASPCA and will be accepted at the funeral home. Care has been entrusted to the Gholson Funeral Home in McLeansboro.
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Carolyn Jane (Struck) Rathjen, please visit our floral store.