EAST ALTON, ILL. — Ruth Ellen Eyers, 98, died at 1:05 a.m. Monday at the Elder Care Nursing Home in East Alton.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Illinois. Committal services will be Saturday afternoon at the Nasonville Cemetery.
Visitation will be at the Gray Funeral Home in Wood River, Ill., from 4-9 p.m. Wednesday. The Hansen Funeral Home in Marshfield handled local arrangements.
She was born in Fergus Falls, Minn., to William and Ella Dewey.
She was married to John Eyers in April 1915, in Minnesota. He died in 1929.
She worked as a librarian at the East Alton Public Library.
She is survived by one daughter, Betty Ealey of Rosewood Heights, Ill.; two sons, Wilmer (Bill) of Brighton, III., and John of Fieldon, Ill.; one brother, Ira Dewey of Campbell, Minn.; one sister, Edith Wrest of Fergus Falls, Minn.; 11 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents and her husband.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 31, 1988
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Illinois. Committal services will be Saturday afternoon at the Nasonville Cemetery.
Visitation will be at the Gray Funeral Home in Wood River, Ill., from 4-9 p.m. Wednesday. The Hansen Funeral Home in Marshfield handled local arrangements.
She was born in Fergus Falls, Minn., to William and Ella Dewey.
She was married to John Eyers in April 1915, in Minnesota. He died in 1929.
She worked as a librarian at the East Alton Public Library.
She is survived by one daughter, Betty Ealey of Rosewood Heights, Ill.; two sons, Wilmer (Bill) of Brighton, III., and John of Fieldon, Ill.; one brother, Ira Dewey of Campbell, Minn.; one sister, Edith Wrest of Fergus Falls, Minn.; 11 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents and her husband.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 31, 1988
EAST ALTON, ILL. — Ruth Ellen Eyers, 98, died at 1:05 a.m. Monday at the Elder Care Nursing Home in East Alton.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Illinois. Committal services will be Saturday afternoon at the Nasonville Cemetery.
Visitation will be at the Gray Funeral Home in Wood River, Ill., from 4-9 p.m. Wednesday. The Hansen Funeral Home in Marshfield handled local arrangements.
She was born in Fergus Falls, Minn., to William and Ella Dewey.
She was married to John Eyers in April 1915, in Minnesota. He died in 1929.
She worked as a librarian at the East Alton Public Library.
She is survived by one daughter, Betty Ealey of Rosewood Heights, Ill.; two sons, Wilmer (Bill) of Brighton, III., and John of Fieldon, Ill.; one brother, Ira Dewey of Campbell, Minn.; one sister, Edith Wrest of Fergus Falls, Minn.; 11 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents and her husband.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 31, 1988
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Illinois. Committal services will be Saturday afternoon at the Nasonville Cemetery.
Visitation will be at the Gray Funeral Home in Wood River, Ill., from 4-9 p.m. Wednesday. The Hansen Funeral Home in Marshfield handled local arrangements.
She was born in Fergus Falls, Minn., to William and Ella Dewey.
She was married to John Eyers in April 1915, in Minnesota. He died in 1929.
She worked as a librarian at the East Alton Public Library.
She is survived by one daughter, Betty Ealey of Rosewood Heights, Ill.; two sons, Wilmer (Bill) of Brighton, III., and John of Fieldon, Ill.; one brother, Ira Dewey of Campbell, Minn.; one sister, Edith Wrest of Fergus Falls, Minn.; 11 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents and her husband.
Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Tuesday, May 31, 1988
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