submitted by
Laurel  White
WAYNE  CO., IL

OBITUARY

Hold Funeral Rites for
Mrs. Mary (Janelle) Sellers

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary (Janelle) Sellers, 79, of Grand Ridge, were conducted in that city Saturday  morning from the Grand Ridge Funeral Home, with Chaplain Kerwin Sletto officiating.  Interment was in the Grand Ridge Cemetery.

Native of Fairfield

Mrs. Sellers, a native of Fairfield, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1995, at Pleasant View Luther Home in Ottawa.  She was born in Fairfield Aug. 8, 1915, the daughter of William L. and Matilda Walker White.

On Sept. 14, 1932, in Princeton, Ind., she was married to John L. Sellers. She had lived all her married life in Grand Ridge. Memorials may be made to the Grand Ridge Volunteer Fire Dept. or to Pleasant View Luther Home of Ottawa.

The Survivors

Surviving are her husband; one son, Delmar (Wayne) Sellers, of Ottawa; two daughters, Mrs. Russell (Mary) Kates, of Streator; and Mrs. William (Lorraine) Angell, of Grand Ridge; one sister, Mrs. Gladys Tierney, of Fairfield; 13 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, a number of cousins in the Wayne County area; a nephew, Dannie White, of Jeff; and nieces, Norma Potts and Sarah Pollard, both of Fairfield.

Preceding her in death were her parents, two brothers, two sisters and one grandchild.

Nov 18, 2002
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