Mrs. Livingston Died Thursday
Funeral Services Held Sunday. Mrs. Lola Green Livingston, the wife of Hubert F. Livingston of Hillsboro, and a former well-known Hillsboro business woman, who founded the Hillsboro Cafeteria, which she operated successfully for more than twenty years, died at Hillsboro Hospital, Thursday night, December 5, at 11:35 o'clock. She had been in failing health for the past nine years. She entered the hospital on Sunday of last week, four days before her death occurred. At the time she died Mrs. Livingston was 74 years, 2 months, and 19 days old. The funeral service was held Sunday afternoon, at one o'clock at the Higgins-Wiese Funeral home in Hillsboro. The Rev. T. O. Melton, Presbyterian pastor, conducted the funeral service. Burial was made in Elmwood cemetery, Litchfield. Opened First Cafeteria Here: Lola Jane Green was one of nine children born to the late Jefferson and Sarah (Green) Green. She was born at Litchfield on September 18. 1872. She attended school there, and in Hillsboro, where the family lived at one time, her father having been employed as a marble worker. After the death of her mother's sister, the late Mrs. Richard Howe, in Hillsboro, in 1900, she made her home at the residence of her uncle, Richard Rowe, in Hillsboro, and cared for his home until his death, in 1911. About 1913, she opened the Hillsboro Cafetleria in the property, a two-storied brick residence which stood on Main street in the business district. She
was a pioneer in the cafetieria style of serving meals in this county, as her business was the first of the kind opened in the county. She was a fine cook and a good business manager, and her cafeteria prospered from the first. In a short time it outgrew the small dining-room in her home and she enlarged the house, building a large dining-room on the south and remodeling the house into a business building, where she operated her cafetieria for nearly twenty years. She retired about ten years ago because of failing health. The cafeteria building has been rented for the past few years by the Livingstons to the Montgomery County branch of the Illinois Public Ald commission, or the old age assistance offices. Married 26 Years Ago: On March 11, 1920, Miss Lola Green and Hubert F. Livingston, who was a resident of this county and an employee of the New York Central railroad, were united in marriage in St. Louis. They made their home at the cafeteria, which they operated for several years atter their marriage. Then they lived in St. Louis for a short lime, where Mr. Livingston was transferred by the company which employed him. They later returned to Hillsboro, and had made their home for several years, in one of the two apartments in the former R. C. A. Jones house, on South Broad street, which the Livingstons had owned for several years before they moved there. Mrs. Livingston was a member of the Hillsboro Presbyterian church, which she joined as a young woman. She attended Sunday School and was an active member of the Young Ladies' Aid Society in the church, for years, until her health failed.
Surviving Relatives: Surviving the decedent, besides her husband, are one brother, Edgar Green of East St. Louis, and nieces and two nephews. Preceding her in death were her father, who died more than forty years ago; her mother, who died In Hillsboro on June 13, 1915, and seven sisters.