The following obituary appeared in today's issue of The News-Gazette, Champaign, Illinois: "Bettie Marie Franklin, 104, of Farmer City (Ill.) died at 5:52pm Friday (April 23, 2004) at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana (Ill.). Funeral services will be at 2pm Tuesday at Calvert-Belangee-Bruce Funeral Home, 106 N. Main St., Farmer City. The Rev. Steve Barrow will officiate. Burial will be in Bellflower Township Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 to 2pm Tuesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Franklin was born March 31, 1900, in Jamestown, Ky., a daughter of L.C. and Martha Ann Cundiff Blair. She married Vernon Franklin on Feb. 22, 1918, in Jamestown. He died July 26, 1989. Survivors include three daughters, Vergie Raymer of Loda (Ill.), Edith Raymer of Gibson City (Ill.) and Imogen Newlin of Farmer City; nine grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a brother, a sister and a daughter. She was a member of Church of God, Mansfield (Ill.). She enjoyed reading the Bible." I have no other information, and no connection to this family. Hopefully, the information contained in Mrs. Franklin's obituary might be helpful to someone researching her family. Eva Neeland