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Doris Verdine <I>Goff</I> Bell Meekins

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Doris Verdine Goff Bell Meekins

Birth
Charleston, Coles County, Illinois, USA
Death
22 Feb 2001 (aged 88)
Lafayette Township, Coles County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Oakland, Coles County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 8 Lot 23
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daughter of Joseph and Goldie M. Jenkins Goff, wife of Reece Bell, married 16 September 1933, Eugene Waffle, and William Meekins

Doris Meekins CHARLESTON - Doris Bell Meekins, 89, of Charleston, died at 2:25 p.m. Monday (Oct. 22 2001) at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center. The funeral will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Caudill-King Funeral Home. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to. 7 p.m. Friday at the Caudill-King Funeral Home.

She was born March 8, 1912, in Charleston, the daughter of Joseph F. and Goldie Jenkins Goff. She married Charles "Reece" Bell; he died in 1952. She married Gene Waffle; he died in 1968. She married William Meekins; he died in 1988.

Survivors include three sons, Robert and John Bell, both of Charleston, and Rex Bell of Littleton, Colo.; one daughter, Martha Van Dyke of Littleton, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by two brothers.

Journal Gazette
Mattoon, Illinois
24 Oct 2001, Wed • Page 9
daughter of Joseph and Goldie M. Jenkins Goff, wife of Reece Bell, married 16 September 1933, Eugene Waffle, and William Meekins

Doris Meekins CHARLESTON - Doris Bell Meekins, 89, of Charleston, died at 2:25 p.m. Monday (Oct. 22 2001) at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center. The funeral will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Caudill-King Funeral Home. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to. 7 p.m. Friday at the Caudill-King Funeral Home.

She was born March 8, 1912, in Charleston, the daughter of Joseph F. and Goldie Jenkins Goff. She married Charles "Reece" Bell; he died in 1952. She married Gene Waffle; he died in 1968. She married William Meekins; he died in 1988.

Survivors include three sons, Robert and John Bell, both of Charleston, and Rex Bell of Littleton, Colo.; one daughter, Martha Van Dyke of Littleton, Colo.; 10 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by two brothers.

Journal Gazette
Mattoon, Illinois
24 Oct 2001, Wed • Page 9


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