This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Colby, Miller, Crites, Huber Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wQJ.2ACEB/707 Message Board Post: HILLSBORO - Beulah I. Colby, 94, of Hillsboro, formerly of Exeter, N.H., died Sunday, June 5, 2005, at Montgomery Nursing and Rehab Center in Hillsboro. She was born Dec. 4, 1910, in Coffeen, the daughter of Albert and Reuie Miller Crites. She married Rodney C. Colby in 1935 in St. Louis; he died in 1968. Mrs. Colby was a homemaker and, during World War II, was an electric welder in shipyards in Portsmouth, N.H., from 1941-45. She was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Order of the Eastern Star and American Legion Auxiliary, all in Exeter, Royal Neighbors in Coffeen and St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Fillmore. Survivor: sister, Geraldine (husband, Bernard) Huber of Coffeen. Memorial services: 11 a.m. Monday, Bass Patton Dean Funeral Home, Hillsboro, the Rev. Sylvia Miller officiating. Burial: at a later date, Exeter Cemetery. ----- COURTESY OBIT ONLY: I AM NOT RESEARCHING THE COLBY FAMILY. SOURCE: STATE JOURNAL REGISTER, SPRINGFIELD IL, 6/7/05