Friday, December 20, 2019

In Memoriam - Gail Wolfe

Gail Ellsworth Wolfe

Born: Feb. 22, 1943, Wayne City, IL
Died: Dec. 17, 2019, Decatur, IL

Married: Carolyn Finley, May 27, 1961, Wayne City, IL

Children:
Teresa md. (--?--) O'Kelley
Deborah 
Robert md. Lori (--?--)
  • Sydney
Ahnentafel:
1. Gail
2. Clarence Ellsworth Wolfe
3. Sarah Estes Bailey
4. John Alfred Wolfe
5. Elizabeth McElhaney
6. William Elmer Bailey
7. Myrtle Iva Brown

8. James Jefferson Wolfe
9. Harriet Brines
10. Felix McElhaney
11. Evangeline Watson
12. William Thomas Bailey
13. Amanda Warren
14. Noah Nicademus Brown
15. Millie Cates 
16. Nathan Edgar Wolfe
17. Nancy Agnes Womack
18. Alfred Brines
19. Lucinda Ballard
20. William McElhaney
21. Elizabeth Smith
24. Joseph Bailey
25. Martha Jane Hillhouse
26. John Warren
27. Louisa Jane Forth
28. John Brown
29. Sarah Jane Root
30. Benjamin Franklin Cates
31. Sarah Jane Irvin

76-year-old Gail E. Wolfe of Lovington, passed away at 5:47 p.m. Tuesday, December 17 in St. Mary's Hospital, Decatur. 

Celebration of Life services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 21 in the Archie L. Sanders Chapel in Thomason Cemetery in Wayne City with Pastor Rodney Houser officiating. Visitation will be 57 p.m. Friday in the Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan and from 10:00 a.m. Saturday until service time in the Archie L. Sanders Chapel in Wayne City. Burial will be in the Thomason Cemetery in Wayne City. Memorials are suggested to the Lovington Community Ambulance Service.

Gail was born on February 22, 1943 in Wayne City, the son of Clarence & Estes Bailey Wolfe. Gail had worked at Firestone in Decatur for thirty years and was a proud union member.

He had been a Moultrie County Republican Precinct Committeeman and had served as the chairman for the Moultrie County Republican Central Committee for several years; had served on the Moultrie County Board and had been a trustee for the Lovington Community Ambulance Service. Gail loved ponies and he enjoyed raising, training and showing his ponies and using them for parades, wagon rides and anywhere others could enjoy seeing his ponies. He especially enjoyed having his carousel in parades. Gail married Carolyn Finley on May 27, 1961 in Wayne City.  

Surviving are his wife Carolyn of Lovington; daughters Teresa O'Kelley of Mattoon and Deborah Wolfe of Danville; son Robert (Lori) Wolfe of Chatham; sister Verna Woodward of Collinsville and granddaughter Sydney Wolfe of Chatham.


He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers Dale, Delmar and John and his sister Yvonne Lathrop

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