Rock Island-Mercer County IL Archives Obituaries.....PAUL, EFFIE   MATTIE  ( BETHELL) December 13, 2003
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Rock Island Argus Dispatch
Birth:  Jan. 14, 1917 
Death:  Dec. 13, 2003 

Effie Paul, 86, of Viola passed away on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003, at Rosewood 
Care Center, Moline. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Aledo 
Church of the Nazarene, with the Revs. Chleo Brown and Mary Brasmer 
officiating. Burial will be in Viola Cemetery, with Bob Dillbeck, Roger Hahn, 
Connie Randolph, Jimmy Bethell, LaVerne Bethell and Neal Martin serving as 
pallbearers. Visitation is two hours prior to services at the church. 
Memorials may be made to the Aledo Church of the Nazarene. Speer Funeral Home, 
Aledo is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Paul was born on Jan. 14, 1917, in 
Acorn, Ripley County, Mo., the daughter of John Larkin and Alice Autry 
Bethell. She moved to the Seaton, Ill., area with her parents as a young girl. 
She married Horace Lee Paul of Keithsburg, on Feb. 25, 1935, in Aledo, Mercer 
County, Ill. The couple lived in Keithsburg, later moving to Rock Island. In 
November 1946, they moved to Viola where they spent the remainder of their 
lives. Mrs. Paul was the beloved mother of five children. She was a charter 
member of the Aledo Church of the Nazarene. She was active in her church 
serving as steward, Sunday school and vacation Bible school teacher and served 
on several church committees. She dedicated her life serving our Lord; caring 
and praying for her family, church family and friends. Effie enjoyed 
gardening, canning, sewing, knitting and reading her Bible. Her best friend 
was her husband, Horace. Survivors include her husband, Horace; two sons and 
daughters-in-law, Don (Doris) Paul, Rock Island, and Ken (Kathy) Paul, 
Rockford, IL; three daughters and sons-in-law, Jeanie (Harris) Nordin, 
Strasburg, Ohio., Alicia (Larry)Ives, Aledo, and Carole (Dean)Davidson, 
Moline; a brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Doris (Kistler) Bethell; a sister-
in-law, Gertrude (Castle) Bethell; 17 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; 
two great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded 
in death by her parents; four sisters, Bessie, Martha, Alma and Ida; four 
brothers, Jessie, Herb, George and John; a son-in-law, James Morrow; and a 
grandson, Mark Nordin 
 
  
Burial:
Viola Cemetery 
Viola
Mercer County
Illinois, USA 
 
 


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