ELIZA, Ill. - Martha A. Lincoln, 87, of Eliza, Ill., died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2000, at Lynncrest Manor in Aledo, Ill.

Services will be at Family Funeral Services in Aledo. Burial will take place at Eliza Creek Cemetery in rural Eliza.

Memorials may be made to Eliza Community Church or Eliza Ladies Aid.

Mrs. Lincoln was born on Nov. 27, 1911, in Monmouth, Ill., the daughter of Reimer and Lila Woodward Hayden. She married William H. Lincoln on June 4, 1928, in Muscatine. He preceded her in death on Jan. 4, 1994.

She was a homemaker and farmed with her husband all of their lives in and around Eliza. She was active in the Eliza Ladies Aid and was past superintendent of the Eliza Community Church.

She enjoyed crocheting and gardening.

Survivors include two sons, Marvin Lincoln and his wife, Betty, of Drury Township, Ill., and Bob Lincoln and his wife, Phyllis, of Aledo; two daughters-in-law, Connie Lincoln of Joy, Ill., and Judy Lincoln of Andalusia, Ill.; 27 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and four
great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; three sons, Richard H., Raymond H., and Ronald L. Lincoln; and one granddaughter, Tammy Wilson