FENTON, Ill. - Lois E. Dye, 79, of Fenton, died Friday, June 5, 2009, at Mercy Medical Center-Clinton, North Campus. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Fenton United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Fenton Cemetery. Visitation will be on Monday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Gibson Funeral Home, Erie. Memorials may be made to the Fenton United Methodist Church.
The former Lois Elva Burns was born January 8, 1930, in Sterling, the daughter of Emmett and Helen Wilkinson Burns. She married Gene Dye on May 20, 1951, in Fenton. She and her husband farmed and she had been a school bus driver for Erie Schools. Lois was an active member of the Fenton United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women and the Whiteside County Home Extension. She had been an election judge for many years. She enjoyed gardening, but most of all she enjoyed being with her family.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter and son-in-law, Laurie and Tim Eldridge, Eustis, Fla.; sons and daughter-in-law, Reverend Rod and Brenda Dye, Erie, Terry Dye, Bloomington, Ill., and Larry Dye, Fenton; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Jim Hawk, Erie; and a brother and sister-in-law, Joseph and Susan Burns, Streator, Ill.
The former Lois Elva Burns was born January 8, 1930, in Sterling, the daughter of Emmett and Helen Wilkinson Burns. She married Gene Dye on May 20, 1951, in Fenton. She and her husband farmed and she had been a school bus driver for Erie Schools. Lois was an active member of the Fenton United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women and the Whiteside County Home Extension. She had been an election judge for many years. She enjoyed gardening, but most of all she enjoyed being with her family.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter and son-in-law, Laurie and Tim Eldridge, Eustis, Fla.; sons and daughter-in-law, Reverend Rod and Brenda Dye, Erie, Terry Dye, Bloomington, Ill., and Larry Dye, Fenton; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Jim Hawk, Erie; and a brother and sister-in-law, Joseph and Susan Burns, Streator, Ill.
FENTON, Ill. - Lois E. Dye, 79, of Fenton, died Friday, June 5, 2009, at Mercy Medical Center-Clinton, North Campus. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Fenton United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Fenton Cemetery. Visitation will be on Monday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Gibson Funeral Home, Erie. Memorials may be made to the Fenton United Methodist Church.
The former Lois Elva Burns was born January 8, 1930, in Sterling, the daughter of Emmett and Helen Wilkinson Burns. She married Gene Dye on May 20, 1951, in Fenton. She and her husband farmed and she had been a school bus driver for Erie Schools. Lois was an active member of the Fenton United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women and the Whiteside County Home Extension. She had been an election judge for many years. She enjoyed gardening, but most of all she enjoyed being with her family.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter and son-in-law, Laurie and Tim Eldridge, Eustis, Fla.; sons and daughter-in-law, Reverend Rod and Brenda Dye, Erie, Terry Dye, Bloomington, Ill., and Larry Dye, Fenton; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Jim Hawk, Erie; and a brother and sister-in-law, Joseph and Susan Burns, Streator, Ill.
The former Lois Elva Burns was born January 8, 1930, in Sterling, the daughter of Emmett and Helen Wilkinson Burns. She married Gene Dye on May 20, 1951, in Fenton. She and her husband farmed and she had been a school bus driver for Erie Schools. Lois was an active member of the Fenton United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women and the Whiteside County Home Extension. She had been an election judge for many years. She enjoyed gardening, but most of all she enjoyed being with her family.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter and son-in-law, Laurie and Tim Eldridge, Eustis, Fla.; sons and daughter-in-law, Reverend Rod and Brenda Dye, Erie, Terry Dye, Bloomington, Ill., and Larry Dye, Fenton; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte and Jim Hawk, Erie; and a brother and sister-in-law, Joseph and Susan Burns, Streator, Ill.
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