Hancock County Journal
Carthage, Illinois
Thursday
May 10, 1945
Page 8
Column 2

MRS. FANNIE SEIPEL
DIES SATURDAY AT
DAUGHTER'S HOME

Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Seipel, 86, of near Tennessee, were held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Friendship church, four miles northwest of Tennessee, with the Rev. E. M. Ditch of Plymouth officiating.  Burial was made in Friendship cemetery.

Mrs. Seipel died suddenly Saturday of a heart ailment at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edna Kimbrough, of west of Tennessee.

Mrs. Seipel, daughter of John and Katharine (George) Knoedler, was born near Plymouth in Hancock county, May 27, 1858, the oldest of nine children.  She spent most of her girlhood near Blandinsville, where she was married on December 24, 1884, to Nathaniel Asa Seipel, who preceded her in death July 20, 1926.  Except for 12 years spent in Tennessee, they lived their entire married life on a farm five miles west of Tennessee.  She was a lifelong member of the Methodist church.

Surviving, besides her two daughters, Edythe M. Nichols of Peoria and Mrs. Kimbrough, are five grandchildren, Evelyn Nichols Meyers, Merle Nichols and Charles Nichols, all of Peoria, Lawrence Kimbrough, who has been overseas 17 months, and Mary Kimbrough Webb of Alton; ten great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Clara Sweasy and Miss Amanda Knoedler of Blandinsville and two brothers, John Knoedler of Tennessee and L. F. Knoedler of Blandinsville.

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