LAUDERDALE COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Dorothy Ford Felic

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Obituary for Dorothy Ford Ferlic



(Compiled from several Tennessee papers, the Courier, Times, and edited from

the Park Ridge Advocate, Cook County, Illinois, October, 1997).



Dorothy Ford Ferlic, 75, a resident of Park Ridge since 1941 died October 4,

1997 in Highland Park Hospital.



Mrs. Ferlic was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, who was first

assistant state's attorney from 1952-60 under John Gutnect and Benjamin

Adamowski, and her daughter, Judith Loboy.  She is survived by four

children, Barbara (Mrs. Bruce Allen Buck), Donald Ferlic, M. D., (wife,

Sharon Stetzer), Joyce Ferlic (Mrs. William O'Keefe), and David Ferlic,

Ed.D. (wife, Patricia), and 17 grandchildren: Steven Buck, Kathy Buck, Laura

Buck, Constance Buck, Michael Buck and Martin James Buck;  Suzanne Ferlic

and Matthew Ferlic;  William O'Keefe the third, Paul O'Keefe, Moira O'Keefe

and Christopher O'Keefe; Colleen Loboy, and 10 great-grandchildren.



She was the daughter of Charles W. Ford and Lillias Gertrude Martin Ford,

and the granddaughter of Eli Martin and Ellen Louise Williams Martin of

Lauderdale County, Tennessee, and a niece of the late Beulah Zebulon Martin

Blythe of Blytheville, Arkansas, the late Albertha Williams Martin Cheatham

of Shreveport, Louisiana, the late Eli Van Louis Martin of Hollywood,

California, and the late Miss Juanita Martin of Washington, D. C.  The

Martin family were early pioneers and long time residents of Lauderdale

County.



A funeral mass was celebrated Tuesday at St. Paul of the Cross Church. 

Interment was in All Saints Cemetery.  Vivitation was held at the Ryan-Parke

Funeral Home, Park Ridge.  Mrs. Ferlic was an active member of Friends of

American Writers, Park Ridge League of Women Voters, the 20th Century Club,

and the Catholic Women's Club.  She was a great lover of the opera.