Champaign-Urbana Illinois News-Gazette
29 March 1978
Della Blome
Mrs. Della B. Blome, 85, of 402 S. Race ST, U, died at 8 p.m. Tuesday (March 28, 1978) at Burnham City Hospital.
Private chapel services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Renner-Wikoff Chapel, with the Rev. Harvey dibbrell officiating. Public graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the chapel.
Mrs. Blome was born Oct. 16, 1892, in Roberts, a daughter of Reynold and Frances Foster Ruedger. She married Frederick M. Blome Feb. 13, 1913, in Stanton, Mich. He died Dec. 3, 1959.
Survivors include one son, Frederick of Elizabethtown, one daughter, Louise Seth of Urabana; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers, Joseph of Carson City, Mich. and Wallace of Monrovia, Calif., and one sister, Marie Duerr of Carson City, Mich.
She was preceded in death by one sis and eight [siblings].
She was a member of the United Methodist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star.