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Visitation:
5 p.m .to 7 p.m. Friday, February 13, at
Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home in Atlanta. Also
for one hour prior to the service on Saturday at the
church.
Service:
Saturday, February 14, at 11 a.m. at Eminence
Christian Church, 1605 2500th Street, rural Atlanta
Funeral services for Mrs. Webb will be held on
Saturday, February 14, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at
Eminence Christian Church, 1605 2500th Street, rural
Atlanta. Dr. LC Sutton and Pastor Brent Salm will
officiate. Burial will be in Roaches Chapel Cemetery
in rural McLean.
Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00
p.m. on Friday, February 13, 2015 at Quiram-Peasley
Funeral Home in Atlanta and for one hour at the
church prior to the service on Saturday.
Funeral home: Quiram Peasley Funeral Home in
Atlanta
Obituary
Normal -- Mrs. Lillian M. Webb, 86, of Normal,
formerly of Atlanta, died at 9:00 a.m. on Monday,
February 9, 2015, at McLean County Nursing Home in
Normal.
Funeral services for Mrs. Webb will be held on
Saturday, February 14, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at
Eminence Christian Church, 1605 2500th Street, rural
Atlanta. Dr. LC Sutton and Pastor Brent Salm will
officiate. Burial will be in Roaches Chapel Cemetery
in rural McLean.
Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00
p.m. on Friday, February 13, 2015 at Quiram-Peasley
Funeral Home in Atlanta and for one hour at the
church prior to the service on Saturday.
Lillian May Wetzel was born November 17, 1928, the
daughter of Harry and Gertrude Carson Wetzel in
Tennessee, Ill. She married James Webb on October
31, 1948 in Colchester, Ill. He preceded her in
death on Feb. 1, 2015.
Mrs. Webb is survived by three children: Susan
(John) Swearingen of Atlanta, Patty (Dave Jobe) Heck
of Stanford, and David (Jessie Schultz) Webb of Hot
Sulphur Springs, Colo.; niece: Rose (Dave) Collins
of Bloomington, who was raised by Jim and Lillian
for many years; four grandchildren: Jeff (Michelle)
Heck, Jennifer (Andy) Jacobs, Jackie Heck and James
Douglas "J.D." Webb; five great-grandchildren:
Gavin, Morgan and Jackson Heck, and Kaleb and
Kaitlin Jacobs; three sisters: Karen Dean of
Colchester, Jean Wetzel of Macomb and Luanne (Gary)
Steiner of Loveland, Colo.; five brothers: Andrew
(Ruby) Wetzel of Carthage, Conrad (Martyne) Wetzel
of Eureka, Jack Wetzel of Aiken, S.C., Eldon (Joy)
Wetzel of Colchester, Joe (Cindy) Wetzel of
Colchester; one brother-in-law: Robert Purdy of
Colchester; and many nieces and nephews. |
She was preceded in death by three sisters: Harriet
Cordell, Doris Vance and Glenna Purdy; two brothers:
Burdette Wetzel and Dick Wetzel.
Lillian was a 1946 graduate of Colchester High
School and a 1976 graduate of the Bloomington School
of Practical Nursing. She lovingly worked as a
caregiver to many people and retired from Bartmann
Nursing Home in rural Atlanta where she had worked
as an LPN.
Recently Lillian was a member of College Park
Christian Church in Normal and had previously been a
member of Eminence Christian Church and Atlanta
Christian Church. Lillian loved music and serving
her church families by both directing and singing in
many choirs over the years. She played the piano,
mandolin and cello. With her siblings, Lillian had
played the mandolin in the Mt. Carmel Country Gospel
Players.
A tireless volunteer, her face was well-known at
many nursing homes in the area. She was a fixture in
the Eminence Ladies' Aid and loved working with
children, having served as a youth group leader for
many years at Atlanta Christian Church.
Lillian also loved crafting and spent countless
hours tatting, knitting, crocheting and oil
painting. And in her later years, she took up
quilting. She was a past member of the Prairie
Bloomers Doll Club.
Memorials may be made to College Park Christian
Church in Normal or the Eminence Christian Church
Building Fund.
Final arrangements are entrusted with Quiram-Peasley
Funeral Home of Atlanta.
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