SIKESTON -- Funeral for ElReno Shelton will be held at 3 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Fred Leist will officiate, with burial in Matthews Cemetery at Matthews.
Shelton, 92, died Saturday, May 2, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
She was born Aug. 5, 1905, at Matthews, daughter of William Harrison and Mary Elizabeth Childers Shelton.
Shelton had been a self-employed beautician, and a member of First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include a sister, Irene Sikes of Sikeston; and a niece she raised, Dorothy Cooley Martin of Flushing, Mich.
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