NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: CONNER, Mrs. Belle (KELLER) (d. 1958)
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Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net


Newspaper obituary; source unknown but probably from the local paper in
Caldwell, Ohio, February, 1958.

"MRS. BELLE CONNER, AGED 97, NOBLE COUNTY'S OLDEST RESIDENT, DIES FEB. 25
   Mrs. Belle Conner, 97, of Mt. Ephraim, Noble County's eldest resident,
passed away Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 4:50 a.m. in the Guernsey Memorial Hospital
in Cambridge.  Mrs. Conner had been a patient in the hospital for the past
three and a half weeks, having suffered a fractured hip in a fall on Feb. 5
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Hester Shafer.
   The deceased was born July 23, 1860, a daughter of the late John and
Sarah Miley Keller at Mt. Ephraim.  She was united in marriage to Reland
(Roland?) Conner, who passed away in 1939.  Mrs. Conner spent most of her
married life in the Cumberland community but moved to the home of her
sister in Mt. Ephraim three and a half years ago.
   Survivors include: one sister, Mrs. Hester Shafer, at whose home she
resided; two step-daughters, Mrs. John Bell, of Cumberland, and Mrs. Thomas
P. Humes, of Los Angeles, Calif.; two nieces and two nephews.
   Mrs. Conner was a member of the Methodidst Church and the Woman's
Society of Christian Service of the Mt. Ephraim Church.
   The body was prepared for burial at the Tom Funeral Home in Cumberland
and was returned to the Shafer home in Mt. Ephraim, Wednesday.  Funeral
services will be conducted today (Thursday) at 2:00 p.m. at the Mt. Ephraim
Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Griesinger, church pastor, officiating. 
Burial will follow in the Mt. Ephraim Cemetery."


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