This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Yarber, Pruett, Downard, Miller Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/935 Message Board Post: BELLEVILLE ILLINOIS NEWS DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2001 Mary Isabel (Downard) Yarber, nee Pruett, 76 of Belleville, IL, born January 22, 1925 in Fredericktown, MO and died Thursday, December 6, 2001, at her residence. Mrs Yarber was a cook before her retirement. She was a member of the Council Bluffs Baptist Church, Belgrade, MO, and a member of the New Athens, IL, chapter of TOPS. Mrs Yarber was preceded in death by her first husband, Will Downard, whom she married on January 11, 1941, in Ironton, MO; her second husband. H.H. Yarber, whom she married August 18, 1972; her parents, Will and Effie Pruett, nee Stacy, four brothers, Raymond, Orville, Franklin, Vernon, two sisters, Opal and Vivian. Surviving are a daughter, Patricia (Robert) Miller of Fairview Heights, IL; two grandsons, Kent (Tammy) Miller of Swansea, IL; Ray Miller of Swansea, IL; two great-granddaughters, Ashley and Lauren Miller of Swansea, IL; four brothers, Ronie (Lovie) Pruett of Camanche, IA; Earl Pruett (Nora)of Chester, IL; Jacob(Betty) Pruett of Mascoutah,! IL; Clyde(JoAnn) Pruett of Freeburg, IL; and a sister, Clara Patton, of Freeburg, IL. Funeral services were held at 11 am Saturday, December 8, 2001, at George Renner and Sons Funeral Home, Belleville, IL, with Pastor Hal Santos of Grace Church of Fairview Heights, IL, officiating. Burial was in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Belleville, IL.