Jefferson County Illinois Obituaries

Vera C. Newell
Dies At Age 78;
Rites Saturday
 

Mrs. Vera C. Newell, 78, of Route 2, Mt. Vernon, died at 10:25 p.m. Wednesday at Good
Samaritan Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Shiloh Methodist church, of
which she was a member, with the Rev. Leroy Dude officiating. Burial will be in New Shiloh cemetery.
The body will lie in state at Myers Chapel, where friends may call after 4:00 p.m. Friday. At noon Saturday, the body
will be taken to the church to lie in state until the funeral hour.

Mrs. Newell was born December 1, 1889, in Belle Rive, the daughter of Thomas and Laura (Maxey) McPherson.
She was married to James P. Newell, who died in 1964. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Mary Mills of Bluford
and Mrs. Faye Simpson of Gurnee, Ill.; four sons, Orval, Thomas and Dean, all of Mt. Vernon and Maxey of
Downers Grove; one brother, Onis McPherson Dahlgren; two sisters, Flossie McLaughlin of Mt. Vernon and
Stella McLaughlin of Paducah, Ky., and 17 grandchildren.

Submitted By: Cindy Ford
 
 

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