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William Woodrow Lisenby

William Lisenby Funeral Services Today at Dix

William Woodrow Lisenby, 54, Route 2, Mt. Vernon, died Saturday at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Funeral services were to be at 2 p.m. today at the Osborn Funeral Home in Dix with the Rev. Dale Brookman of Dix officiating.

Mr. Lisenby, a welder, was born July 28, 1911, in Princeton, Ind., the son of William Alfred and Addie (Yearwood) Lisenby.

He married LeEtta Leneave on March 12, 1948, in Morgansfield, Ky.

He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the First Church of Nazarene in Mt. Vernon.

Survivors include: His widow; five sons, Alfred, Paul, Edward, Wendell and Jimmy Lisenby; four daughters, Edith Klutts of Mt. Vernon, Vera Dunham of Des Plaines, Ill., Wanda and Reba Lisenby, both at home; two step-daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Tinsley of Mt. Vernon and Mrs. David Hager of New Athens; two brothers, Fordyce Lisenby of East Dundee, Ill., and George Lisenby of Woodstock; one sister, Mable Hunt of Woodstock and 15 grandchildren.


NOTE: Woodrow’s first marriage was to Leta Owens.


Mt. Vernon Register News
Monday, January 3, 1966
Submitted by: Lori Lisenby Leonard
Relationship: Granddaughter


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