BETHEL HURLEY

WAUKEGAN, Ill. -- Bethel E. Hurley, 85, of Waukegan, formerly of Bertrand and Sikeston, died Thursday, June 25, 1998, at Crown Manor Nursing Center in Zion, Ill., after an extended illness.

She was born Sept. 6, 1912, at East Prairie, daughter of George W. and Aura Belle Hubbard Russell.

She married Earl L. Hurley on Dec. 1, 1928, at Dogwood. He died Sept. 6, 1957.

She had been a housewife and homemaker and was a former member of the Bertrand United Methodist Church. From 1961 to 1965 she worked as a nurse's aide at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She moved to Waukegan in 1965 and became a licensed practical nurse, taking her training at Lake County Hospital, where she worked until 1970. She was a member of the Women of the Moose Lodge 760 in Waukegan.

She is survived by a son, Manuel E. Hurley of Cassville; a daughter, Susan C. Weeks of Beach Park, Ill.; a stepson, Norman L. Hurley of Cahokia, Ill.; four sisters, Margaret Bethune and Dora Wilmurth, both of Bertrand, and Dorothy Bruce and Arletta Jacob, both of Sikeston; nine grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, three sisters, a grandson, two great-grandsons and a great-granddaughter.

Visitation will be at noon Sunday at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Charles E. Moreland officiating. Burial will follow in the IOOF Cemetery at Charleston.