Elsie Mae Russell, 67, of Bone Gap, Illinois, died Tuesday October 12, 1982 at Fairfield Memorial Hospital.  Services in Ingram Funeral Home in West Salem with Elder James Walston presiding. Burial  in Oak Hill Cemetery at Parkersburg.

Mrs. Russell was born April 20, 1915 in Edwards County, the daughter of Thurman and Blanche (Woodruff) Densmmore. She married Loren Russell August 6, 1936 in Albion and he survives.

Other survivors include one son, Gerald R. Russell, Rochester, MN; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Gene Densmore of Noble; two sisters, Cleo Russell of Snowflake, Ariz. and Beatrice Staneluis of Cleveland, Ohio.

Preceding her in death was a daughter, Janice Morrison; an infant son; a brother, Everett Densmore and a sister, Florence George.

Daily Republican Register (Mt. Carmel, IL) - Wednesday, October 13, 1982