Funeral Sunday For Delia Dove

Funeral services for Mrs. Delia Dove will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the Christian church in Keenes of which she was a member. The Rev. Emmet Wood will officiate. Burial will be in Mateer cemetery.

The body will lie in state at Myers chapel where friends may call after 4:00 p.m. today. At noon, Sunday, the body will be taken to the church to lie in state until the funeral hour.

Mrs. Dove of 14 North Parkside, Chicago, died at 11:45 p.m. Wedneday in Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in that city. she was 73 years, six months and eight days old.

She was born Aug. 18, 1890, in Wayne county, the daughter of Charles and Sarah (Webber) Lane.

At Keens, on June 4, 1904, she was married to William W. Dove, who survives.

She is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Thelma Maratin of chiago; a brother, Vernie Starkey of Mt. Vernon; two sisters, Mrs. Ola M. Spangler and Mrs. Dorothy Hensley, both of Mt. Vernon; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Source: Mt. Vernon Register-News, page 2
Date: Saturday, February 29, 1964
Transcribed and submitted by: Sandy (Whalen) Bauer