This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL, BYRON, PETERSON, LEWIS, MESSERSCHMITT, CHAMBERS, LEMON, DRAKE, DOCHERTY Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/640 Message Board Post: Evelyn G. Russell Evelyn G. Russell died July 5, 2000, at Woodland Memorial Hospital. Born Sept., 27, 1917, in Boden, Ill. to James and Grace Kasenberg Docherty, she was 82. She lived in the Boden, Matherville, Milan area of Illinois nearly all her life, and moved to California with her husband last year to be close to their son Rick and his family. She will be remembered by friends and family as a woman of great spiritual strength, selflessness and compassion. She was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Milan, Ill. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Richard (Dick) Russell; their son Rick and his wife, Sharon, of Woodland; sister, Maxine Byron, of Milan, Ill.; a step-daughter, Cherie Peterson of Alexis, Ill.; three granddaughters, Carrie Russell Lewis of Woodland, Lori Lemon Messerschmitt and Lisa Lemon Chambers of Ottumwa, Iowa; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Micaela Lemon Peterson; a son, William Lemon; a sister, Alice Drake; and a brother, Peter Docherty. In fulfillment of her wishes, no services will be held in California. Donations in her name may be made to the American Diabetes Association. (Obituary from the "The Davis Enterprise," for the week of July 9, 2000, (Yolo County). Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616, <http://www.davisenterprise.com/>. Please note: I am not related to the family listed above, and I do not have any further information on this family.)