VIOLA CHRISTOFF

Funeral Mass for Viola Agnes Christoff of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Vincent's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Art L. Trapp officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.

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

Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Christoff, 100, died Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1997, at the Lutheran Home.

She was born Nov. 18, 1896, in Perry County, daughter of Thomas and Mary Knott Griffaw. She and George Evan Christoff were married in 1914 in Cape Girardeau. He died in June 1952.

Christoff was a member of St. Vincent's Church, its Ladies Sodality and Council of Catholic Women.

Survivors include two sons, Virgil Christoff of Cape Girardeau, George Christoff of Denver, Colo.; nine grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, two brothers, two sisters, a half brother, and a half sister.