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Service:
Graveside services will be held on Saturday at 10:00
a.m. at Wiley Cemetery in Colfax
Funeral home: Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home of
Atlanta
Obituary
Mabel Park, 97, of Waynesville, passed away at 8:01
p.m. Tuesday, December 2, 2014, at her home.
Graveside services for Mrs. Park will be held on
Saturday, December 6, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. at Wiley
Cemetery in Colfax. Mr. Tony Billingsley will
officiate.
Mabel Meeks was born November 2, 1917, in Anchor,
Ill., the daughter of Harley and Hansiene Peek
Meeks. She married Philip Park on December 25, 1935,
in Colfax. He preceded her in death on April 2,
1963.
Mabel is survived by her daughters: Phyllis
Granacher of Waynesville and Mabel Houchens of
Ellsworth; five grandchildren: Rory Houchens of
Ellsworth, Lisa Smith of LeRoy, Leslie Houchens of
Bloomington, Laurie (Thomas) Sanders and Page
(Douglas) Wood, both of Normal; five
great-grandchildren: Rachel (Michael) Lockett of
Minnesota, Louis (Becky) Sanders of Normal,
Elizabeth (Marcus) Deeker of New York, Taylor
Sanders of Kentucky and Jeffrey Smith of Ellsworth;
seven great-great-grandchildren: Michael, Emma and
Evelynn Lockett; Matthew Sanders; and Teagan, Ashlin
and Callan Decker; five sisters: Rosemary Woodward
and Ina Westerfield of Fairbury, Olive Riggs of
Quincy, Nellie Johansen of Champaign and Bevelyn
Arahood of Virginia and one brother-in-law: Robert
Lawrence of Fairbury. |
She was preceded in death by three brothers: Otto,
Clarence and Roscoe Meeks and two sisters: Agnes
Phillips and Inez Lawrence.
Mabel was a 1935 graduate of Colfax High School
where she earned the honor of Salutatorian of her
graduating class. She worked for State Farm Life
Insurance Company for 23 years as a re-insurance
accounting clerk and retired in 1982. She was a
member of Grace Methodist Church of Bloomington. She
graced many homes with her beautiful crochet,
macramé, embroidery and sewing.
Memorials may be made to McLean County Humane
Society or Living Hope Christian Church in Downs.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted with
Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home of Atlanta.
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