Lillian Moser

1894 - 4/27/1958

Handwritten-Tues. April 29, 1958

Mrs. Carey Moser Dies In Virginia - Wife Of Former Decatur Minister

Mrs. Lillian Moser, wife of the Rev. Carey Moser, former pastor of the First Baptist Church in Decatur, died Saturday night at a hospital in Richmond, Va.

Mrs. Moser had been seriously ill with cancer for the past four weeks. The family now resided in Danville, Va., where Rev. Moser is pastor of the Schofield Baptist Church.

The family resided in Decatur for nine years, leaving this city about nine years ago.

Surviving in addition to the Rev. Moser are two sons, The Rev. Edward Moser, a missionary in Mexico and Robert Moser of Mexico; and three daughters, Marilyn, of Pittsburgh, Pa., Marjorie, living in Kansas, and Eleanor, of Richmond, Va.

Funeral services were held at Danville this afternoon, and the body will be brought to the Hardy & Hardy Funeral Home in Geneva, where services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The Rev. Stuart Brightwell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city, will officiate, and burial will be in the Gravel Hill Cemetery, one mile west of Bryant. The body will arrive in Fort Wayne Thursday morning, and friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Thursday until time of the services. [Gravel Hill Cemetery; Jay County, Indiana]

Adams County (IN) Historical Museum
1955 March-April 1958 Scrapbook, image 140-141

Transcribed by Janice Vasilovski
Contributed by Margie Roop Pearce

Buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery