This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HIBNER, POWELL EIB Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1479 Message Board Post: OBITUARY GARDNER CHRONICLE JULY 8 ,1948 DEATH OF ELLA A. HIBNER ELLA A. HIBNER DAUGHTER OF JAMES C. AND MELISSA HIBNER WAS BORN ON A FARM NEAR JOLIET ON JAN. 21, 1871. AT A EARLY AGE, SHE WITH HER FAMILY MOVED TO A FARM NEAR REDDICK. IN 1901 THE FAMILY CAME TO GARDNER , WHERE SHE HAS SINCE RESIDED. SHE PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME ON JULY 2, AND LEAVES TO MOURN HER LOSS, TWO SISTERS. BERTHA A. HIBNER AT HOME, MRS. ELMER POWELL OF NORMAL, A NEPHEW JAMES, OF SAN DIEGO , CALIF., AND A NIECE ALMA LOU POWELL OF NORMAL AND OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS , TWO SISTERS ANS TWO BROTHERS. FOR MANY YEARS SHE HAS BEEN A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ALMEDA CLUB. THRU HER LONG YEARS OF ILLNESS HER PATIENCE HAS ENDEARED HER TO HER MANY FRIENDS. FUNERAL SEVICES WERE HELD ON MONDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE HANSEN FUNERAL HOME WITH REV. R. STOLP OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS MADE IN ROUND GROVE CEMETERY. CARD OF THANKS WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE THANKS AND APPRECIATION FOR THE KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY EXTENDED TO US DURING THE ILLNESS AND DEATH OF OUR SISTER . MISS BERTHA HIBNER ELMER POWELL FAMILY THE ALMEDA CLUB OF GARDNER, ILLINOIS WAS NAMED FOR ELLA,S MOTHER. ALMEDA EIB HIBNER.