In Memoriam - December 20th

1832 Caspar Johnson age 79 in Richland, PA the son of Caspar & Catherine (Morse) Johnson.  He was born in Montgomery Co., PA ca. 1753.  Caspar married Deborah Admason and they had ten children: Catherine, Thomas, Mary, John, Ann, James, Charles, Henry, Casper and Joel. 

1932 Franklin Withrow son of Grandison & Mary (Holcomb) Withrow age 80 in Payson, OK.  He was born in Wayne Co., IL in 1852.  Franklin married Mary Dove and they had nine children: unnamed daughter, William, Miles, Elmer, DeEtta, Everett, Martha, Grace and Tillman.

1988 Lynette (Smith) Hartman age 59.  She was born in 1929 the daughter of James & Bessie (Nemnich) Smith.

1995 Marie Bourland, 79, of Mt. Vernon and a former resident of the Woodlawn area, died 8:50 a.m. Dec. 20, 1995, at the home of her daughter, Nita Cates, in Mt. Vernon.

She worked with her husband and operated Bourland’s Service Station for many years and was a cook at Woodlawn Grade School.

Born Oct. 28, 1916, in Bluford, she was a daughter of Calvin and Grace (Whitlatch) Gentle.  She married S. Gale Bourland in Cape Girardeau, Mo., on April 17, 1941, and he died Nov. 13, 1972.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at Hughey Funeral Home with the Rev. Denny Steed officiating.  Burial will be in Woodlawn-Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Friends may call 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Woodlawn and was a past member of the Rebekah Lodge of Woodlawn.

Survivors include two daughters, Nita Cates and husband Dean of Mt. Vernon and Rita Vaught of Mt. Vernon; a son, Don R. Bourland and wife Karen of Leawood, Kan.; five grandchildren, Robert, Randy and Kristen Cates, Stacy Giacona and husband Kim, and Caroline Bourland; two great-grandchildren, Taylor Giacona and Whitney Cates; a brother Elmer Gentle of Mt. Vernon and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; one grandson Eric Cates; and a sister-in-law, Ruth Gentle.