contributed by Larry Toler

GOREVILLE - Bonnie D. Royster, 71, of Chicago, formerly of Goreville, died at 6:10 p.m. Monday, Jan. 3, 1995 at home
    Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Mitchell-Hughes Funeral Home in Marion with burial in Chapman Cemetery; Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
    Mrs. Royster had worked at Vaughn's Store, the Goreville post office and as a homemaker.  During World War II she built airplanes in Evansville,, Ind.
    She lived the last 20 years in Chicago.  She was a former member of Eastern Star, and a member of Trinity Methodist church and the church senior citizen group in Chicago.
    She was born March 31, 1923, in Goreville to Owen and Mary (Rowe) Russell.
    She married Franklin Royster in Goreville on June 12, 1947.  He died Nov. 6, 1987.
    Survivors include on son, Russell Royster of Chicago; one daughter, Mrs. Stephen (Kay) Corsere of Bollingbrook; two grandsons, Angelo and Antonio Corsere, both of Chicago; one brother, Vernell Russell of Florida; and two sisters, Opal of Kentucky and Agatha of Florida.
    Her parents and one brother, Orville Russell, also preceded her in death.

Southern Illinoisan, Thursday
January 26, 1995