Bond-Montgomery County IL Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Blanche Ramona Spies January 4, 2011 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Thomilson Eunicepeabody1@aol.com January 14, 2012, 12:23 am The Journal-news OBIT The Journal-News Blanche R. Edwards, 94 Blanche Ramona Edwards, 94, of Donnellson, died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, at 12:20 a.m. at Memorial Medical Center, Springfield. Visitation will be held Friday, Jan. 7, from 11 a.m. until time of funeral services at 1 p.m. at Bass Patton Dean Funeral Home, Hillsboro. Pastor Robert Carter of Vandalia, will officiate. Burial will be at Bethel Cemetery, Reno. Born June 23, 1916, at Elm Point, she was the daughter of the late Phillip and Anna (Wylder) Spies. She married Chauncey M. Edwards in 1935 at Hillsboro. He survives. Mrs. Edwards lived most of her life in the Reno and Donnellson area. She worked at Hillsboro Area Hospital, was a cook at Reno school and was a homemaker. Survivors include four children, Billy G. (wife Kathryn) Edwards of Highland, Dixie L. (husband Mannie) Gaston of Lincoln, Deanna G. (husband Jerry) Sullivan of Springfield, and Gary D. (wife Shirley) Edwards of Litchfield; 14 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and several great-great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by four brothers; and three sisters. Memorials may be made to Bethel Cemetery in Reno or donor's choice. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/bond/obits/e/edwards613gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb