Funeral services for Lillie Mae Ulrey, 77, of 309 S. Church St., Christopher, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Gilbert Funeral Home, Christopher. The Rev. Eugene Fox will officiate. Burial will be in the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, north of Sesser. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.

Mrs. Ulrey died at 6 p.m. Saturday in Miners Hospital, Christopher.

She was born May 26, 1895, in Jefferson County, the daughter of Jasper and Mary Asberry Wells.

Her husband, John Ulrey, preceded her in death in 1957.

Survivors are a son, Carl of Manteno; a foster daughter Vera Crain of Ft. Branch, Ind.; two brother, Leonard Wells, of Mt. Vernon and Bert Wells of Sesser; a sister, Grace Roy of Christopher and seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Source: The Southern Illinoisan
Date: July 24, 1972
Submitted by: Robert Loman