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Elsie Jones
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[July
20, 2007]
Elsie B. Jones, 83, of Lincoln,
formerly of Elkhart, died Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 6:06 p.m. at
her home.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln. Her funeral will be
at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with Craig Smith and
Frank Bush officiating. |
Burial will be in New Union Cemetery. Mrs. Jones
was a homemaker.
She was born Jan. 4, 1924, in Mahomet to Verne
and Ruth Miner Rittenhouse. She married Joseph K.
Jones on July 9, 1943, in Mahomet.
She is survived by her husband, of Lincoln; three
daughters, Janet (and David) Bell of Scottsdale,
Ariz., Janice Kubicek of Irving, Texas, and Marsha
(and Frank) Comito of Brooklyn, N.Y.; four brothers,
Elmer Rittenhouse, Warren Rittenhouse, Wayne
Rittenhouse, all of Urbana, and Glenn Rittenhouse of
Champaign; four granddaughters; one grandson; two
great-granddaughters and three great-grandsons.
One brother, Ralph, preceded her in death.
She was a member of Jefferson Street Christian
Church in Lincoln. |
She was a 1941 graduate of Mahomet High School.
Memorials may be made to Jefferson Street
Christian Church or the Christian Village.
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