Ethel Sage
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Ethel Sage
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Posted: 26 May 2009 2:45PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
ALEDO, Ill. - Ethel E. Sage, 90, of Aledo, died Sunday, Jan. 30, 2000, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Knoxville.
Services will be at the Fippinger Funeral Home in Aledo. The Rev. Steve Rigdon of the Village Baptist Church in Alexis will officiate. Burial will be at the Norwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Sage was born on June 6, 1909, in rural Aledo, the daughter of William Augustus and Effie Liggett Minor. She married Russell Sage on June 6, 1926, at the Stronghurst Baptist Church. She received her education from the Aledo schools and then attended Monmouth High School. She attended the Morse School of Beauty in Galesburg. She owned the Aledo Beauty Shop. She worked for Dr. T. N. Danford Chiropractic Clinic in Aledo as a receptionist for 40 years, retiring in 1977. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Aledo and its Faith Circle, the Sunshine Mission Circle, the Aledo VFW Auxiliary, the American Legion, the Mercer County Senior Center, and the AARP.
Survivors include two daughters, Verla Wadhams and her husband, LaVerne, of New Windsor, Ill., and Delores Bird and her husband, John, of rural Little York, Ill.; a son, Wendell Sage and his wife, Paula of Desert Hot Springs, Calif.; 14 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and seven great great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant son, a brother, Frank Minor, and a granddaughter, Deena Killian.
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Services will be at the Fippinger Funeral Home in Aledo. The Rev. Steve Rigdon of the Village Baptist Church in Alexis will officiate. Burial will be at the Norwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Sage was born on June 6, 1909, in rural Aledo, the daughter of William Augustus and Effie Liggett Minor. She married Russell Sage on June 6, 1926, at the Stronghurst Baptist Church. She received her education from the Aledo schools and then attended Monmouth High School. She attended the Morse School of Beauty in Galesburg. She owned the Aledo Beauty Shop. She worked for Dr. T. N. Danford Chiropractic Clinic in Aledo as a receptionist for 40 years, retiring in 1977. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Aledo and its Faith Circle, the Sunshine Mission Circle, the Aledo VFW Auxiliary, the American Legion, the Mercer County Senior Center, and the AARP.
Survivors include two daughters, Verla Wadhams and her husband, LaVerne, of New Windsor, Ill., and Delores Bird and her husband, John, of rural Little York, Ill.; a son, Wendell Sage and his wife, Paula of Desert Hot Springs, Calif.; 14 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and seven great great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant son, a brother, Frank Minor, and a granddaughter, Deena Killian.
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