Wayne County Press
Monday, November 15, 1965

For the first time in some 60 years, there is no "Attorney Creighton" in Fairfield.

The end of the line came at 8:30 Monday morning (today) with the death of Miss Mary Ann Creighton at Memorial hospital.

Her father before her, Charles W. Creighton, was a long-time attorney here and a onetime Wayne county states attorney.  A number of brothers of her grandfather Creighton were also attorneys and onetime circuit judges.

Miss Creighton, 47, was at the time of her death serving as president of the Wayne County Bar Association.  A 1941 graduate of the University of Illinois Law School, Miss Creighton was a member of the law firm of Creighton and Kerr here.

She had cancer and had been hospitalized, except for one brief occasion, since the first of July.  She earlier was hospitalized here in [April?]

Mis Creighton herself once held appointment as an assistant attorney general for Illinois and also served a number of years as assistant to Judge Farthing, of Belleville, while he was a member of the Illinois Supreme Court.

She was a member of the Illinois and American Bar Associations and was listed in the Midwest Edition of Who's Who in American Women.  She also held [2 words, unreadable].

She was quite active in civic affairs serving as president of the Wayne County United Fund [unreadable].  She was long active and a past president of the Fairfield [remainder of paragraph unreadable].

She was ......................  for the Fairfield  ............................  Miss Creighton .   .............. position.

Funeral ................ Maple Hill .................... Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Mary Ann, daughter of Charles W. and Millie Camp Creighton was born in Fairfield on January 18, 1918.

Miss Creighton was a member of the Fairfield First Methodist church.

Two Sisters Survive

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. ...... Francis, with whom she made her home here in the old Creighton home place on North East Fourth, and Mrs. Jane Herzler of Scotch(?) Plains, New Jersey.