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Jessie Stogdell
Jessie Ruth Stogdell, 86, of Chestnut
died Monday (July 19, 2004) at 12:52 a.m. at Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m.
Thursday at the First United Methodist Church in Chestnut, with the
Rev. Carol Andricks officiating.
Burial will be in Laenna Cemetery,
Chestnut.
Mrs. Stogdell taught at elementary
schools in Chestnut, Latham and Mount Pulaski before she
retired.
She was born Nov. 20, 1917, at
Chestnut to Ezra Clark and Ruth Eliza Williams Myrick. She married
Fred J. Stogdell in Chestnut on Dec. 25, 1941. He died April 5,
1978.
She is survived by three daughters,
Judi (and William "Pudge") Koehler of Lincoln, Ruth (and Donald)
Plackner of Benson, Minn., and Janet (and John) Johnson of Decatur;
13 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and one
great-great-granddaughter.
She was also preceded in death by
three brothers, one sister and three grandchildren. She was the last
of her immediate family.
She was a member of Chestnut United
Methodist Church and the Methodist Woman's Club, Logan County
Genealogical Society, Chestnut Happy Homemakers, Alpha Delta Kappa
Mu, and the Ding-A-Lings Kitchen Band.
She did volunteer work at Vonderlieth
Living Center and for Meals on Wheels. She had been an EMT-A and CPR
instructor.
Memorials may be made to the Chestnut
United Methodist Church or the Jessica Lynn Gee Special Needs
Fund.
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