This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeFreece, Furbush, Pullman, Laird Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4191 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 18, 1943. "Lifelong Resident of County Passes".-- Mrs. Luella May DeFreece, 77, a resident of this community all her life, passed away at the Hamburg hospital last Monday, February 8, after a short illness. Funeral services were held at the Crawford Funeral home Thursday afternoon, February 10, conducted by Rev. J. M. DeBerg of the Sidney Presbyterian church. Interment was made at Sidney. Luella May Furbush, daughter of John B. and Emma Furbush, was born May 31, 1865. Her parents and six brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Her entire life was spent in the Sidney community. She attended the Sidney Public schools and Oxford College for Women at Oxford, Ohio. She later taught in the rural schools in Fremont county and in Kansas. She was united in marriage to Dr. S. O. DeFreece on March 26, 1890. To this union six children were born, one daughter and five sons, two of whom preceded her in death--an infant son in 1901 and Lyman in 1938. Dr. DeFreece passed away March 4, 1908. Mrs. DeFreece was a member of the Presbyterian church of Sidney, the Research Club and the Order of the Eastern Star. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.J. H. Pullman, of Sidney; three sons, Dr. Austin B. DeFreece of Seattle, Wash.; Dr. Gerald A. DeFreece of Long Beach,Calif.; and Hobart DeFreece of Sidney; also eight grandchildren, Austin, Jr., of Seattle; Gerald and Ann, of Long Beach; Jane of Shenandoah; James, Jr., Jeane, Norman and Irene Pullman of Sidney. Out of town relatives attending the services were Dr. Gerald DeFreece of Long Beach, Calif.; Jerry DeFreece of IowaCity; Norman Pullman, of Omaha; Mrs.Ida Furbush, of Woodbine, Iowa.; Mrs. Effie Furbush, of Kansas City, Mo.; and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laird, of Kansas City, Mo.