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Durflinger, Grace Louise "Peg" Nice
COLFAX - The funeral of Grace Louise "Peg" Durflinger, 81, of Heritage Manor, Colfax, formerly of Cooksville, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Cooksville Union Church. The Rev. Dan Jassman will officiate. Burial will be in Blue Mound Cemetery, Cooksville. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Duffy-Pils Memorial Home, Colfax. She died at 4:55 a.m. Monday (Dec. 30, 2002) at Heritage Manor, Colfax. Memorials may be made to Eastern McLean County Ambulance Association or Cooksville Union Church. She was born Dec. 8, 1921, at LeRoy, a daughter of William Earl and Grace Sutton Nice. She married Gleason Donald "Red" Durflinger on Oct. 4, 1945, at Bloomington. He died July 6, 1977. Survivors include a son, Donald (Janice) Durflinger, Arrowsmith; three daughters, Kay (George) Vincent, Valdosta, Ga.; Nancy (Jim) Kiper, Colfax; and Judy (Wesley) Shelander, Rockdale, Texas; a brother, Richard (Winnie) Nice, Towanda; a sister-in-law, Ruth Ann Sheete, Bloomington; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Maurice Nice. Mrs. Durflinger was a homemaker and had worked for State Farm Insurance and for Mennonite Hospital. She was a graduate of Cooksville High School and a member of Cooksville Union Church. She was a 63-year member of Davis-Kerber American Legion Auxiliary Post 652 in Colfax, past president of the American Legion Auxiliary, and a member of the Colfax NTO Club. She loved to crochet, and she loved music and hearing her daughters play music. She also loved to spend time with her grandchildren.
(The Pantagraph)
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