MRS. NINNIE DELL KOONCE

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Service for Mrs. Ninnie Dell Koonce will be held Monday at 1 p.m. at Crain Funeral Home in Mounds, with Tom Ellison officiating. Burial will be in Green Lawn Memorial Garden near Villa Ridge.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.

Koonce, 81 years old of Mounds, died Friday at Meridian Manor Nursing Home in Mounds.

She was a member of Mounds Congregational Church.

She is survived by her husband, Edward N. Koonce, Mounds; a son, Robbie Koonce, Thompsonville, Ill.; a daughter, Sandra Gahan of Nashville, Tenn.; brother, James ("Buddy") Thomas, Crystal River, Fla.; five grandchildren; and one great grandson.