Jefferson County Illinois Obituaries

Ethel M. Meadows
 

Ethel M. Meadows, 62, of Route 5, was dead on arrival at Good Samaritan Hospital
at 1:15 p.m. Friday.
She was a retired employee of Lear-Seigler stove foundry in Centralia.
Mrs. Meadows was born in Jefferson County on October 5, 1914, the daughter of
John H. and Lena H.(Piercy) Carpenter. She was married on July 21, 1935, in Jefferson
County to John W, Meadows, who survives. She was a member of the Boyd Pentecostal
Church, and was a member of the Ladies Auxillary of the V.F.W. in Mt. Vernon.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the Osborn Funeral Home in Dix,
with Verneil Garren officiating.  Burial will be in Boyd Cemetery. Friends may call at the
funeral home after 6 p.m. Sunday.

In addition to her husband, John, Mrs. Meadows is survived by two sons, John H. Meadows
of Mt.Vernon and Edward Tate of Dix; five daughters, Shirley Mick, Mt. Vernon, Ida Reeves,
Mt. Vernon, Vera Hayes, Mt. Vernon, and Betty Beckham, and Sharion Johnson, both of
Woodlawn; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, a brother James Carpenter of Batavia;
and two sisters, Evelyn Wray, Bluford and Nora Simmons, Dix.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three daughters and one sister.
 
 

Mt. Vernon Register News
Submitted by: Ida Reeves  ida@mvn.net
 
 

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