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Lizzie Calhoon
Lizzie Calhoon of Creal Springs Died August 5 Funeral Services Held at Creal Springs Saturday With Interment in Vienna Cemetery
Funeral services were held Saturday evening, Aug. 7 at 2:00 p.m., for Lizzie Calhoon of Creal Springs. The services were held at the Creal Springs Baptist church wit Eld. Hobart Peterson of Dongola and Eld. Arthur Travelstead of Marion in charge of the service. Members of the W.M.S. were flower bearers. Interment was made in the Vienna Fraternal Cemetery.
The
following obituary was read at the service:
Lizzie Calhoon, daughter of James Franklin and Frances Reid Calhoun was
born in Johnson county, Illinois, July 4, 1877. She departed this life
at the Holden Hospital Aug. 5, 1943 at the age of 66 years.
She
was the youngest of eleven children, Susan, Jacob, Cyntha, Thomas,
George, Allen, Nora, Martha and two died in infancy.
She
was converted in the late ‘teens and was baptized into the fellowship of
Mt. Zion Baptist church at Buncombe. Later she moved her membership to
Creal Springs while in business and when in Washington her membership
was at Temple Baptist church. When moving back to Creal Springs, she
brought her church letter and put it back in the church there. She was a
faithful and untiring worker in whatever duty fell her lot. She taught
Sunday School classes for years, was superintendent of the Cradle Roll
and Extention Departments until her health made it impossible for her to
serve. She also led and held many offices in the Woman’s Missionary
Society, visiting and administering to the sick and needy when ever
possible.
She
spent three years in Creal Springs College after finishing the grade
school at Buncombe. She then went to nurse a sick aunt in Washington,
D. C.
Miss
Calhoon came back to Creal Springs in 1937 to make her home, spending
much of her time with her sick sister Martha, who preceded her in death
five weeks ago.
She
leaves to mourn her passing, a nephew, Ernest Ballard and family, Fannie
and Flora Mae of West Frankfort, a cousin, Miss Georgia Lovelace, with
whom she was living, a brother-in-law, J. P. Ballard, two other nieces,
Mrs. Mary Evitt of Herrin and Mrs. Etta Mighell of Buncombe and other
nieces and nephews and cousins, who were very dear to her.
Her
trials are over, her afflictions are ended and she has gone to her long
Home to await the resurrection morning when she will be united with her
body and be at Home forever with her Lord.
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