Marie B. (Seely) Jenkins, 84 of Cisne, formerly of Olney died Monday May 30, 2005 at Clay County Hospital in Flora.

Services at Stasi-Grove Funeral Home with Wayne Neeley officiating. Burial in Dundas Cemetery.

Mrs. Jenkins was born on August 17, 1920 in Olney, the daughter of Jesse and Mattie (Wilson) Seely. She married Blanchard C. Jenkins on February 28, 1943 in Olney. He preceded her in death on September 29, 1997.

She was a housewife and a member of Shiloh Conservative Christian Church in Willow Hill.

Mrs. Jenkins is survived by three daughters, Sharon Ward and her husband, John of Divernon, Darlene Hosselton and her husband, John of Cisne and Gayla Jenkins of Charleston; two sons, Dennis Jenkins of Olney and Russell Jenkins and his wife, Dee of Paducah, Ky.; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and a half-brother, Lowell Seely.

Published in Olney Daily Mail (IL)