MO d/c 17269
PETTIT FUNERAL SATURDAY
Aged Knox County Woman Died Wednesday of Last Week.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Pettit was conducted at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning at St. Joseph Church by the pastor, the Rev. Terence Mullins. Burial was in the New Catholic Cemetery.
Mrs. Pettit died at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning of last week at the Gibson Hospital here following a serious illness of five days. She was 84 years old and had lived in Knox County forty-one years.
One of four daughters of James and Rose Ann McCabe Lawless, Mrs. Pettit was born on May 25, 1865, at Malden, Ill. She was reared in Illinois and was graduated from the Neponset, Ill., High School in 1882.
On Feb. 4, 1891, she was married to William J. Pettit at Kewanee, Ill., and in 1909 they moved to a farm three miles northeast of Edina. She was a member of the St. Ann Society of St. Joseph Church and of the Glendale Extension Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Pettit had five children, four of whom survive. They are: Teresa, Mrs. Louis Millmeyer, and Grace, Mrs. Albert McCauley, of northwest of Edina; Margaret, Mrs. John Clausen, of Rockford, Ill., and Bert Pettit of Eldon, Mo. Another son died in 1913.
After the death of her husband on Nov. 22, 1930, Mrs. Pettit made her home with her daughters. Surviving besides the children mentioned are ten grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. her three sisters preceded her in death.
Among those who came for the funeral were: Bert Pettit and son, William, of Eldon; Mr. and Mrs. John T. Clausen and daughter, Catherine Mary and sons, Paul, William, Robert and Lawrence, and Mrs. Peter Zimmerman of Rockford, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettit, Mrs. Elizabeth Driscoll, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Golby and Miss Agnes Golby of Neponset, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hanson of Princeton, Ill., and Mrs. Lyle Long of Buda, Ill. Miss Catherine Mary Clausen, a granddaughter of Mrs. Pettit, sang "Panis Angelicus" and "Ave Verum" at the funeral.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri
PETTIT FUNERAL SATURDAY
Aged Knox County Woman Died Wednesday of Last Week.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Pettit was conducted at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning at St. Joseph Church by the pastor, the Rev. Terence Mullins. Burial was in the New Catholic Cemetery.
Mrs. Pettit died at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning of last week at the Gibson Hospital here following a serious illness of five days. She was 84 years old and had lived in Knox County forty-one years.
One of four daughters of James and Rose Ann McCabe Lawless, Mrs. Pettit was born on May 25, 1865, at Malden, Ill. She was reared in Illinois and was graduated from the Neponset, Ill., High School in 1882.
On Feb. 4, 1891, she was married to William J. Pettit at Kewanee, Ill., and in 1909 they moved to a farm three miles northeast of Edina. She was a member of the St. Ann Society of St. Joseph Church and of the Glendale Extension Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Pettit had five children, four of whom survive. They are: Teresa, Mrs. Louis Millmeyer, and Grace, Mrs. Albert McCauley, of northwest of Edina; Margaret, Mrs. John Clausen, of Rockford, Ill., and Bert Pettit of Eldon, Mo. Another son died in 1913.
After the death of her husband on Nov. 22, 1930, Mrs. Pettit made her home with her daughters. Surviving besides the children mentioned are ten grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. her three sisters preceded her in death.
Among those who came for the funeral were: Bert Pettit and son, William, of Eldon; Mr. and Mrs. John T. Clausen and daughter, Catherine Mary and sons, Paul, William, Robert and Lawrence, and Mrs. Peter Zimmerman of Rockford, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettit, Mrs. Elizabeth Driscoll, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Golby and Miss Agnes Golby of Neponset, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hanson of Princeton, Ill., and Mrs. Lyle Long of Buda, Ill. Miss Catherine Mary Clausen, a granddaughter of Mrs. Pettit, sang "Panis Angelicus" and "Ave Verum" at the funeral.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri
MO d/c 17269
PETTIT FUNERAL SATURDAY
Aged Knox County Woman Died Wednesday of Last Week.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Pettit was conducted at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning at St. Joseph Church by the pastor, the Rev. Terence Mullins. Burial was in the New Catholic Cemetery.
Mrs. Pettit died at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning of last week at the Gibson Hospital here following a serious illness of five days. She was 84 years old and had lived in Knox County forty-one years.
One of four daughters of James and Rose Ann McCabe Lawless, Mrs. Pettit was born on May 25, 1865, at Malden, Ill. She was reared in Illinois and was graduated from the Neponset, Ill., High School in 1882.
On Feb. 4, 1891, she was married to William J. Pettit at Kewanee, Ill., and in 1909 they moved to a farm three miles northeast of Edina. She was a member of the St. Ann Society of St. Joseph Church and of the Glendale Extension Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Pettit had five children, four of whom survive. They are: Teresa, Mrs. Louis Millmeyer, and Grace, Mrs. Albert McCauley, of northwest of Edina; Margaret, Mrs. John Clausen, of Rockford, Ill., and Bert Pettit of Eldon, Mo. Another son died in 1913.
After the death of her husband on Nov. 22, 1930, Mrs. Pettit made her home with her daughters. Surviving besides the children mentioned are ten grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. her three sisters preceded her in death.
Among those who came for the funeral were: Bert Pettit and son, William, of Eldon; Mr. and Mrs. John T. Clausen and daughter, Catherine Mary and sons, Paul, William, Robert and Lawrence, and Mrs. Peter Zimmerman of Rockford, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettit, Mrs. Elizabeth Driscoll, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Golby and Miss Agnes Golby of Neponset, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hanson of Princeton, Ill., and Mrs. Lyle Long of Buda, Ill. Miss Catherine Mary Clausen, a granddaughter of Mrs. Pettit, sang "Panis Angelicus" and "Ave Verum" at the funeral.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri
PETTIT FUNERAL SATURDAY
Aged Knox County Woman Died Wednesday of Last Week.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Pettit was conducted at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning at St. Joseph Church by the pastor, the Rev. Terence Mullins. Burial was in the New Catholic Cemetery.
Mrs. Pettit died at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning of last week at the Gibson Hospital here following a serious illness of five days. She was 84 years old and had lived in Knox County forty-one years.
One of four daughters of James and Rose Ann McCabe Lawless, Mrs. Pettit was born on May 25, 1865, at Malden, Ill. She was reared in Illinois and was graduated from the Neponset, Ill., High School in 1882.
On Feb. 4, 1891, she was married to William J. Pettit at Kewanee, Ill., and in 1909 they moved to a farm three miles northeast of Edina. She was a member of the St. Ann Society of St. Joseph Church and of the Glendale Extension Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Pettit had five children, four of whom survive. They are: Teresa, Mrs. Louis Millmeyer, and Grace, Mrs. Albert McCauley, of northwest of Edina; Margaret, Mrs. John Clausen, of Rockford, Ill., and Bert Pettit of Eldon, Mo. Another son died in 1913.
After the death of her husband on Nov. 22, 1930, Mrs. Pettit made her home with her daughters. Surviving besides the children mentioned are ten grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. her three sisters preceded her in death.
Among those who came for the funeral were: Bert Pettit and son, William, of Eldon; Mr. and Mrs. John T. Clausen and daughter, Catherine Mary and sons, Paul, William, Robert and Lawrence, and Mrs. Peter Zimmerman of Rockford, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettit, Mrs. Elizabeth Driscoll, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Golby and Miss Agnes Golby of Neponset, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hanson of Princeton, Ill., and Mrs. Lyle Long of Buda, Ill. Miss Catherine Mary Clausen, a granddaughter of Mrs. Pettit, sang "Panis Angelicus" and "Ave Verum" at the funeral.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri
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