ELMA DEY

Funeral for Elma V. Dey of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Hal Greene will officiate. Burial will be in Mayfield Cemetery at Carlinville, Ill.

Friends may call at the chapel from 4-6 p.m. today.

Dey, 91, died Monday, Jan. 22, 2001, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center.

She was born Sept. 2, 1909, at Witt, Ill., daughter of Edwin Taylor and Opha Blanche Carriker Wittman. She and Raymond Harlan Dey were married Jan. 25, 1929, in Urbana, Ill. He died in 1976.

Dey moved to Cape Girardeau from Carbondale, Ill., where she was active in civic affairs most of her life. She was also a teacher in the Carbondale area many years. She was a member of Cape Bible Chapel in Cape Girardeau.

Survivors include a son, Clifford Dey of Arnold, Md.; two daughters, Patricia Cuendet of Chandler, Ariz., Marcia Spacy of state of Florida; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sisters.