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Obituary of Cora McKenzie

Furnished by : Dr. Francis L. McKenzie

 

A TRIBUTE
published in the pages of
THE NEWS-GAZETTE
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.
Nov 9 1962

     Mrs. Cora McKenzie
Mrs. Cora McKenzie, 75, 411
Fairview Drive, a resident of
Champaign for the last four
years, died at 12:50 a.m. Fri-
day (Nov. 9, 1962) in Burnham
City Hospital.
   Heath Memorial Funeral
Home is in charge of local ar-
rangements. The body will be
taken to Kringer Funeral
Home Ashley where services
will be conducted. Burial will
be in Ashley Cemetery
   Mrs. McKenzie was born
June 2, 1887 at Ashley, daugh-
ter of William Jefferson and
Mary Ann Cox Wright. Her hus-
band, William McKenzie, died
in 1936. She was a member of
the Fairview Baptist Church
at Richview.
   Mrs McKenzie leaves the
following children: Miss Mary
McKenzie, 41 Fairview Drive;
      Mrs. Wilma Farmer, 1410 Gar-
den Lane; Mrs. Edith Dennis,
Nashville; Mrs. Doris Heit-
kamp, South Bend, Ind; Mrs.
Pearl White, Niles, Mich; Mrs.
Lula Sensel, Ashley; Everett
McKenzie, East St. Louis; Lu-
ther McKenzie, Mt. Vernon;
and Myrle McKenzie, Munde-
lein
   She also leaves five sisters,
Mrs. Della Reed, Champaign
County Nursing Home; Mrs.
Ida Thompson, Centralia; Mrs.
Addie Cohlmeyer, Richview
Mrs. Fannie Hemmerlein,
Bruceville, Ind.; and Mrs. Nell
Ingram, Waltonville; 31 grand-
children; and 33 great-grand-
children.
   Pallbearers: grandchildren of
the deceased: Francis Mc-
Kenzie, Marion MxKenzie,
Robert Dennis., Orville Sensel,
Richard Heitkamp and Michael
Farmer.
 

 

 


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