Virginia Atherton

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Funeral for Virginia L. Atherton of Dongola will be held at 1 p.m. today at Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge, Ill. The Rev. Joe McCommons will officiate. Burial will be in Graves-Mount Olive Cemetery near Vienna, Ill.

Atherton, 70, died Sunday, May 26, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Feb. 24, 1932, at Foreman, Ill., daughter of Julius and Nora Jane Simmons Holmes.

Survivors include a son, David Atherton of Dongola; two sisters, Betty Duffield of Olmsted, Ill., and Ella Richards of Cape Girardeau.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, and two brothers.