St. Clair County Obits

MILLIE P. ROYSE

Millie P. Royse, St. Clair Pioneer, Dies at 102
(1971 written in pencil)
Mrs. Millie P. Royse died at the Community Nursing Home in El Dorado Springs at the age of 102 years, three months, and 10 days.
Born May 27, 1869, she was the second daughter of Elizabeth Frances and Nicholas Benton Green.
In 1894 she was married to William Royse. Two children were born to them. A son died in infancy, and a daughter, Lois, died in 1969.
Aunt Millie as she was always called, joined the Baptist church at an early age. She was baptized by the Rev. Shackleford of the Roscoe community where she was reared, and where she spent most of her life. In her earlier life she taught school in St. Clair county for several years, getting her teachers training at the Weaubleau Institute.
After passing of her husband in 1942, she sold their farm and moved to Appleton City where she lived until she took abode in first the Powell rest home in Appleton City, and then at the Community Nursing home in El Dorado Springs.
Funeral services were conducted in the Eckhoff funeral home in Appleton City Sept. 8 at 2 p.m., by the Rev. Mike McKenzie of the Appleton City Baptist church. Burial was in the Benton Green cemetery near Roscoe. Survivors include seven nieces, two nephews, other relatives and friends.