Mrs. Florence Elva Hand Rector died at 11:40 Sunday morning at her home, 1001 South Sixth Street. She was 78 years and ten days of age.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:00 pm at Myers Chapel. The Rev. Ace Summers will officiate and burial will be in Farnsworth cemetery, in Wayne County. The boy will lie in state at Myers Chapel, where friends may call after 4:00 pm today.

Mrs. Rector was born December 23, 1881 in Wayne County, the daugher of John and Mary (Maulding) Whalen.

She was first married to Garfield Hand, who died in 1930. In 1949, she married to Arley Rector, who survives.

Mrs. Rector was a member of the Bethel Tabernacle.

Besides her husband, she is survived by one son, Leonard Hand of Mt. Vernon; three daughters, Noma Pigg of Mt. Vernon, Pauline Gardner of Lima, Ohio, and Nadine Mayberry of Wildwood, IL; four brothers, Vern Whalen of Bluford, Roy Whalen of Rochelle, IL, Ed Whalen of Roxanna City, IL and Robert Whalen of Wood River, IL; four sisters, Laura McClure of Flint, MI, Nora Jones of DeKalb, IL, Goldie Guthrie of Peoria and Clara Loge of Mt. Vernon; 11 grandchildren and 13 great granchildren.