The Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa
Wednesday Evening
February 11, 1970
Page 18
Column 5Lillie J. Fortney
Mrs. Lillie Jane Fortney, age 88, of rural Hamilton, Ill., died Monday, Feb. 9, 1970, at 1:20 p.m. at Blessing hospital, Quincy, Ill., where she had been a patient for the past seven weeks.
She was born December 10, 1881, in rural Burnside, Ill., the daughter of William J. and Antoinette McCumber Patterson. On March 6, 1900, she was married to James A. Fortney in Carthage, Ill.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Chester (Gayle) Hensley of Hamilton and Mrs. Herman (Gladys) Tow of Quincy, Ill., two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Preceding her in death were her husband, seven brothers and four sisters.
Funeral service will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Lamporte Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Harris officiating. Burial in LaHarpe cemetery, LaHarpe, Ill.
