St.
Clair County Obits

MARY ELLA LINES
Osceola Library Files
Mrs. Mary Ella Lines, 73 years old, died Tuesday, June 11, in the
Community Nursing Home after a long illness.
She was born on December 26, 1900, in Cedar County, the daughter of
Perry and Martha Miller Simpson.
She was married to Henry P. Lines, and they were the parents of two
sons and one daughter.
Survivors include her husband, Henry, of the home, Route 4, El Dorado
Springs; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Vanoster, Orrick, Mo.; two sons,
Floyd, of Kansas City, Mo., and Claude, Grandview; two sisters, Mrs.
Ollie Schuette, El Dorado Springs, and Mrs. Oma Taylor, Nevada, Mo.;
six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Thursday, June 13 at the
Pleasant Springs church at Oyer, with Rev. Joe Leedy officiating.
Burial was in Pleasant Springs cemetery.
Note: Pleasant Springs / Oyer Cemetery record lists: Mary E. Lines, 26
December 1900 – 11 June 1974.