FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. Private graveside services for Mary Frances Lingle McDonell, 88, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., formerly of Jonesboro, Ill., will be held Monday, July 14, at the Jonesboro (Ill.) Cemetery.
McDonell died in 1986 in Fort Lauderdale, and her body cremated there. The ashes are being returned to Illinois for burial tomorrow.
McDonell was born Nov. 21, 1896 at Jonesboro to James and Kitty Burke Lingle.
She married Joseph McDonell, who preceded her in death in 1979, along with a daughter, Mary Ericson in 1991, a brother, Edwin Lingle, and one grandson.
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