Mary Elizabeth Seely (born Butler)
Personal
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: April 19, 1874
Date of Death: November 30, 1950
Birth Place: Chillicothe, MO
Death Place: Wheeling - MO
Mary Elizabeth Seely
Mrs. Mary Seely Dies at Wheeling
Funeral Services Will Be Held Friday
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Seely, 76, died at 7:45 o’clock this morning at her home in Wheeling, where she had lived since her marriage forty-three years ago.
Mrs. Seely had been in failing health the last eight years. Her condition became critical only yesterday.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon from the Wheeling Christian Church, conducted by the Rev. Lloyd E. Morgan of Bucklin. Burial will be in the Wheeling cemetery. The body will be taken Friday morning to the family home from the Norman funeral home.
Mrs. Seely was born April 19, 1874 at Chillicothe, daughter of Amos and Mary Elizabeth Hickman Butler. She received most of her education at the Manning school near Chula. She was married June 19, 1907, at Wheeling to Lester A. Seely.
The husband died April 14, 1940.
Surviving are one son, Eldon A. Seely of Wheeling; two brothers, Fred H. Butler, Long Beach, Calif., and Marion S. Butler of Wheeling; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie Jones and Miss Retta Butler, both of Wheeling; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Besides the husband, one son and one brother preceded Mrs. Seely in death.
Published in The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune (Chillicothe, Missouri) Thursday November 30, 1950
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SEELY SERVICES HELD FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Last rites for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Seely, 76, whose death occurred at the family home in Wheeling Wednesday morning, were held from the Wheeling Christian Church Friday afternoon at one o’clock. The Rev. Lloyd E. Morgan, pastor of the Bucklin Christian Church conducted the memorial services. Interment was made in the family lot in the Wheeling cemetery under the direction of the Norman funeral home.
For the funeral music, Mrs. Harry Joe Clem and Mrs. Earl McCollum sang “It is Well With My Soul:, and “Safe In the Arms of Jesus”. And Mrs. Clem sang “Death Is Only a Dream” as a solo. Mrs. John Walkup was the accompanist.
The pallbearers were Tom Courtney, Lucian Walkup, Steve Biggerstaff, Arley Mace, Parker B. Myers, and Leslie Dimitt. The flowerbearers were Louann Walkup, Lela Braun, Gladys Mace and Viola McKiddy.
Published in The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune (Chillicothe, Missouri) Saturday December 2, 1950
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