"FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. NELSON (ALTA G. JENNE) POWELL, 95 OF ARTHURW ERE HELD AT 1030 AM SATURDAY IN THE ARTHUR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.BUR IAL WAS IN GREENHILL CEMETERY IN SULLIVAN. SHE DIED AT 2:36 PMWEDNESDA Y,APRIL 3, 1991 IN THE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL IN URBANA.BORN FEB 17 , 1896 IN SULLIVAN SHE WA A DAUGHTER OF HENRY ANDCATHERINE MYERS JENNE . SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ARTHUR UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH. SHE MARRIED N ELSON EARL POWELL IN 1916 AND HE DIEDIN 1964. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, D UANE POWELL OF LOVINGTON,DAUGHTERS, MRS. CATHERINE AGGE OF ARTHUR AND B ERNICE POWELL OFATWOOD, SIX GRANDCHILDREN, 14 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND O NE GREATGREAT GRANDCHILD. ONE SON, TWO BROTHERS AND SEVERAL SISTERS PR ECEDEDHER IN DEATH. THE FAMILY SUGGESTS MEMORIALS TO THE ARTHUR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH."
She was a resident of the Watkins Retirement home in Arthur, IL, forth e 3 years prior to her death.
The funeral was held at the Arthur United Methodist Church on Saturday
at 10:30 AM with Rev Tom Hamilton-Kenney and Rev Kenneth Plummer
officiating. Pallbearers were grandsons: Leroy, Danny, and Michael
Powell; Ronald and Richard Agge; and Robert Stahl.
