St. Clair County Obits

MATTIE DOUGLAS MEREDITH LAWLER

Clinton Eye
November 1939
Mrs. Mattie Lawler Dies - Mrs. Mattie D. Lawler, a loved and respected resident of Henry County since the turn of the century, died at her home two miles northeast of Coal at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, 1939. She had been ill since October, with a bowel trouble that hastened the end. Mattie Douglas Meredith was born Oct. 2, 1867, in Pettis County. She lived for a time in St.. Clair County, where she met and married her husband, B. Frank Lawler, and together they came to Henry County in 1910, to the Coal neighborhood, having lived on the same farm 29 years. Mr. Lawler died in 1932. A Baptist since childhood, this good woman was a credit to her kind and her life praised her Maker in thought and deed. All that can be said of her in tribute has its foundation in truth. The devotion of her daughter was one of the most beautiful relations of her life, and the care Miss Opal gave her mother, never leaving her bedside, soothed with gentleness and love, her last days on earth. Surviving Mrs. Lawler are her daughter, Miss Opal, above mentioned of the home; three sons, Evan of Vista, Claude of Atlantic, Iowa, and Auburn, of near Bethlehem, and one brother, Dee Meredith, in Erie, Kans. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Hugh Sperry at Good Hope Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., burial was in Englewood. Consalus & Peck in charge. Pallbearers were Carr Leake, Ed Snow, Hobert and Joe McQueen, Miles Zumwalt, Hayden Wallace. Present for the services from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Proctor and Mrs. Lillie Miller of Erie, Kans.; Mrs. Leonard Harris and son, Arlie Meredith, of Osceola; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Meredith of Appleton City.