St. Clair County Obits

VIOLET WALTERS RAITHEL

Columbia Daily Tribune
June 28, 1991
Page 2A
Violet Walters Raithel, 68, of Fulton died Thursday, June 27, 1991, at Heartland of Fulton.

Services will be a 1 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Gerald Scheperle officiating. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the funeral home. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Raithel was born on Feb. 4, 1923, in Gerster to Moletes Stephens and Eva Alice Tucker Stephens. On June 14, 1942, she married Harvey Walters in California, who preceded her in death in 1968. She married Henry Raithel in November 197? and he preceded her in heath in 1979. She was member of St. Johns Lutheran Church in Schubert.

Survivors include a son, William Walters of Columbia; three daughters, Donna Havens of Columbia, Phyllis Proctor of Harrisburg and Jo Ann Sylvester of Scottsburg, Pa; a stepson, LeRoy Raithel of Jefferson City; a stepdaughter, Bonnie Gaskill of the state of Texas; two brothers, Johnnie Stephens of Dexter and Charlie Stephens of Kearney; four sisters, Stella Newcomb of Lowry City, Ora Dull of Independence, Beulah Moreland of Arizona and Esther Prier of Phoenix, Ariz; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by four brothers and a sister.

Submitted by Marie Reynolds