Coles County IL Archives Obituaries.....Rawlings, Marie Frances Bloxom ************************************************ 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: Bev Dobbins bosartbev@aol.com May 1999 Obituary of Marie Frances Bloxom RAWLINGS, Coles County, Illinois Name of Deceased: Marie Frances Bloxom RAWLINGS Name of Newspaper: Mattoon Journal-Gazette MARIE FRANCES BLOXOM RAWLINGS DECATUR Marie Frances Bloxom Rawlings, of Decatur, died Wednesday (September 30, 1992) at St. Mary's Hospital in Decatur. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Glad Tidings Assembly of God. Burial will be in North Fork Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Brintlinger's Funeral Home. She was born in Mattoon, the daughter of Joseph Elmer and Melinda Belle Lewis Bloxom. She married Ralph Fred Rawlings in 1946. He survives. Also surviving are four sons, Keith L. and wife, Linda, Timothy, Carl and Rick L. Rawlings, all of Decatur; five daughters, Mrs. Lloyd (Nancy M.) Wright of Oreana, Wanda J. Rawlings of Forsyth, Mrs. Richard (Beverly K.) Smith of Clinton, Mrs. David (Diane S.) Boyd of Derby, Kansas and Mrs. Kevin (Carol J.) Wilderman of Highland; a sister, Mrs. Lewis (Mary) Hopper of Mattoon; 22 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a twin sister, two brothers and two sisters. Mrs. Rawlings was a member of Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church. http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/coles/obits/n-s/mrawling.txt