January 18, 1991

ELSIE O'REILLY

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Elsie O'Reilly of Charleston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Revs. Robert Burke and Richard Combs will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery. Mrs. O'Reilly, 88 years old, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1991, at her home...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Elsie O'Reilly of Charleston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Revs. Robert Burke and Richard Combs will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery.

Mrs. O'Reilly, 88 years old, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1991, at her home.

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She was born Oct. 3, 1902, at Bertrand, daughter of Joseph M. and Margaret Davis Voelker. She married Leland Stanford O'Reilly Sr. Nov. 14, 1920, who died in June 1966.

Survivors include a brother, Joe Voelker of Sikeston; a granddaughter, Norma Sams of Charleston; two great-grandsons, Jay Sams of Phoenix, Ariz., Jeffery Sams of Charleston, and a great-great-grandson, Jason Sams of Charleston.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Leland O'Reilly Jr. and George O'Reilly; two sisters and two brothers.

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