Dora Colvin

Elmwood Gazette, July 30, 1949
Transcribed by Robert Schmidt

MRS. DORA COLVIN

Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Rowena Colvin, 68, of 1300 Knoxville ave., who died at 10:05 p.m. Friday at Methodist hospital where she had been a patient since June 14, will be held at 2:30 p.m. (CDT) Monday at the Patterson funeral home in Elmwood.

The Rev. Francis Derrick of Farmington will officiate, and burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
Born Sept. 20, 1880, in Elmwood township, she was the daughter of George Tilford and Susan Hovenden Wasson. She was a member of the Elmwood Presbyterian church.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Glenn Gibbs of Glendale, Arizona, Mrs. Otto Plack of Peoria, with whom she had resided at the Knoxville address for the past 10 years, Mrs. Paul McCoy of Peoria and Mrs. Walter McCoy of Maquon; four sons, Don Colvin of Farmington, and Glenn, Wayne and David Colvin, all of Peoria; one sister, Mrs. Mina Westbay, of Elmwood; 17 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.