In Memory

Nellie Wakefield (Corrie) - Class Of 1927

Nellie Wakefield (Corrie)

Mrs. NELLIE CORRIE, age 36, the wife of Arthur Corrie, passed away last Saturday evening August 7, 1943 at the Jarman Hospital in Tuscola, where she was employed as a nurse.

Funeral services held at the Wakefield Baptist Church and interment in the Wakefield Cemetery.

The former Miss Nellie Wakefield of Olney, Mrs. Corrie graduated from the Olney High School in 1927 and from the Olney Sanitarium School for Nurses in 1931. She was the daughter of the late Albert Wakefield.

Mrs. Corrie is survived by her husband, Arthur Corrie of Tuscola, 11-day old twin daughters; her mother, Mrs. Lula Wakefield of Wakefield; two sisters, Mrs. Dale Gharst of Wakefield and Miss Ada Wakefield of Eldon, and one brother, Arthur Wakefield of Wakefield community in northwest Richland county.

Published in Olney Advocate (IL) ~ August 12, 1943