MARY ASHBY

CHARLESTON -- Funeral for Mary Jane Ashby, formerly of Mississippi County, will be held at 11 a.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Gerald Collier will officiate. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until service time.

Ashby, 85, died Monday, June 7, 1999, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau.

She was born June 16, 1913, in Woodridge, Va., daughter of Raymond and Mary Curtis. She and Clifford G. Ashby were married Dec. 8, 1946. He died Dec. 3, 1993.

Ashby lived in Alexandria, Va., most of her life. She served four years in the U.S. Air Force.

Survivors are two sons, Clifton and Marshall Ashby, both of Alexandria.

She was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters.