Ora Colvin

Elmwood Gazette, June 16, 1949
Transcribed by Robert Schmidt

ORA MATLIN COLVIN

Funeral services for Ora Matlin Colvin, 77, of Farmington, who died at the Knoxville convalescent home in Knoxville at 4 a.m. June 10, 1949, after an illness of three years, were held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 from the Anderson funeral home in Farmington and burial was in Oak Ridge cemetery.

A retired farmer, Mr. Colvin was born in Knox county April 16, 1872. He was a son of William Andrew and Mary Ellen (Fetters) Colvin.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Sue Gibbs, of Arizona; Mrs. Doris Plack and Mrs. Marjorie McCoy, both of Peoria; and Mrs. Bernice McCoy of Maquon; four sons, Don Colvin of Farmington, and Glenn, Wayne and David Colvin, all of Peoria; three sisters, Mrs. Maude Geeseman and Mrs. Edna Valentine, both of Galesburg, and Mrs. LaVada Manock of Elmwood; 17 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.