Funeral services for Mrs. Priscilla Jane Alexander, 75, of Danville, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the J. J. Moran & Sons Funeral Home, with burial in Mt. Pulaski Cemetery.
Mrs. Alexander died at 7:30 a.m. yesterday in the Decatur and Macon County Hospital. A resident of Danville for the last 30 years, she was visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Grover of 224 W. Prairie Ave., when she became ill. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. tomorrow.
The daughter of Albert and Ocie Skidmore England, she was born at Grafton, W. Va., in 1879.
The family came to Latham when she was a child, and she grew up there, moving to Danville after her marriage to Ben Alexander. Mr. Alexander died in 1940.
She was a member of the Christian Church at Latham and Danville.
Mrs. Alexander leaves two sons, Russell, of Danville, and Albert, Decatur, four grandchildren and the following sisters: Mrs. Fred Grover, Decatur; Mrs. Ida Burchette, Chillicothe, Mo.; and Mrs. Sally Ridgeway, Albuquerque, N. M.; Mrs. Hattie Rowley of Key West, Fla., and one brother, Anold, Mattoon.
From The Decatur Herald (Decatur, Illinois), Sunday, October 3, 1954.
Funeral services for Mrs. Priscilla Jane Alexander, 75, of Danville, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the J. J. Moran & Sons Funeral Home, with burial in Mt. Pulaski Cemetery.
Mrs. Alexander died at 7:30 a.m. yesterday in the Decatur and Macon County Hospital. A resident of Danville for the last 30 years, she was visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Grover of 224 W. Prairie Ave., when she became ill. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. tomorrow.
The daughter of Albert and Ocie Skidmore England, she was born at Grafton, W. Va., in 1879.
The family came to Latham when she was a child, and she grew up there, moving to Danville after her marriage to Ben Alexander. Mr. Alexander died in 1940.
She was a member of the Christian Church at Latham and Danville.
Mrs. Alexander leaves two sons, Russell, of Danville, and Albert, Decatur, four grandchildren and the following sisters: Mrs. Fred Grover, Decatur; Mrs. Ida Burchette, Chillicothe, Mo.; and Mrs. Sally Ridgeway, Albuquerque, N. M.; Mrs. Hattie Rowley of Key West, Fla., and one brother, Anold, Mattoon.
From The Decatur Herald (Decatur, Illinois), Sunday, October 3, 1954.
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