VOLKEL, Mary Ethel - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Source: Unknown newspaper hand marked 1966 – p 166 - thanks to Covington Public Library

Mrs. Mary Ethel Volkel, age 79 who resided west of Perrysville, died at 12:10 p.m. Friday July 8 at the Danville Care Nursing Home. She had been ill since March.  Mrs. Volkel was born Jan 2, 1887 near Gessie, the daughter of Charles Peter and Calista Harris Martin. She was married Dec 12, 1912 to William Harvey Volkel, who preceded her in death.  She was a member of the Perrysville Methodist Church, its WSCS and the Rebekah Lodge of Perrysville. She had been a life resident of Highland Township, Vermillion County.

Survivors besides one son, Ellis of Perrysville; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Merle Gouty of Gessie and Mrs. Georgia Bridwell of Chicago; four grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and five step great grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers and one sister, one granddaughter and one great grandchild.  Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home in Covington, the Rev. Donald True officiated and burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Covington. Serving as pallbearers were Kenneth Green; Harold Miller; Ernest Graves; Dell Hanna; Jim Curl and Miles Cannady.