Mrs. MARY PHILLIPS CHURCHILL, 69, a resident of Pottawattamie County for the last sixty-eight years died at the home of her son, Howell Churchill at Neola about noon Wednesday. She had lived in Council Bluffs in recent years until a recent illness, when she went to the home of her son at Neola.

She is survived by: four sons, G.H. of Woodbine, Vincent of Normal, IL, and H.E. and P.V. of Neola; one daughter, Mrs. Amelia Whitson of Harlan; one brother, Howell Phillips of Underwood, and twenty-six grandchildren.

The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Woodring's Chapel and at 3:30 in the cemetery with C. Carson Bransby and the O.E.S. in charge of the services. Burial will be in the Neola Cemetery. (January 11, 1964-February 1, 1933)

A jury, led by Mrs. Mary Churchill, 105 South Seventh Street, the first woman juror who has ever sat on a criminal case in this county, yesterday found Charles and George Colwell, brothers, guilty of the theft of $125 worth of aluminum crank casings from the Council Bluffs Auto Parts company on the night of August 7. The jury, under the foremanship of Mrs. Churchill, was out two hours. The finding of the value of the theft makes the crime larceny. The men will be sentenced early next week, it is said.

Mrs. Churchill, active in club work here, and the mother of five children, was the only woman juror in the entire panel to answer the state's call. She hold a double honor. Not only is she the first woman to sit on a state case in this county, but she is also the first woman to be chosen foreman of such a jury. She signed the verdict in a strong, firm handwriting.

Mrs. Mary Churchill, 105 South Seventh Street, widow, mother of five children, has the honor of being the first woman juror to serve on a criminal case in this county. Not only did Mrs. Churchill serve as juror, but was chosen foreman, thus she is accorded a double honor. She wrote the finding of the jury in the larceny case against George and Charles Colwell, as "guilty as charged in the indictment."

"Women have suffrage now, it is only fair that they should do their share of work in the courts," Mrs. Churchill said. "When I was called for jury duty I did not think of making any excuses and I believe that women should serve when they are called upon."

Mrs. Churchill's husband died in 1914. She has been a prominent worker in Eastern Star circles for twenty years, having been matron at Neola in 1907. She has a son, George at Woodbine, Vincent at Red Oak, H.E. near Bentley and Phillips at Glenwood and a daughter, Mrs. Amelia Whitson at Harlan. County Attorney Frank Northrop was well satisfied with the work of Mrs. Churchill.