Funeral services for Mrs. Rosella E. Bedwell, 90, of 1140 South Church Street, Belleville, were held at 3:00 p.m. Thursday at the George Renner and Sons Funeral Home, Belleville, with the Rev. Marvin Engelsdorfer, pastor of St. Paul United Church of Christ, in Belleville, officiating. Burial was in the Walnut Hill Cemetery.
She was stircken Tuesday morning at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Cleo Baldwin, 203 North Belleville Street, Freeburg, and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m. upon arrival at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Mrs. Bedwell, ill for six months, had been staying at the Baldwin home for the past nine weeks after she was dismissed from ST. Elizabeth Hospital.
A daughter of the late William and Elizabeth Cornwell, nee Laird, she was born at Newman, Ill., on February 18, 1881. She married E. P. Bedwell at Champaign, Ill, on September 3, 1899. Mr. Bedwell, a railroad employee, died October 17, 1955.
Surviving are two sons, James Bedwell, 414 North 28th Street, Belleville and Harold Bedwell, R. R. 1, Belleville, three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Martin, 1140 South Church St., Belleville, Mrs. Bessie Rasch, 23 South 12th Street, Belleville; and Mrs. Frances Crawford, St. Louis; 19 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven brothers and sisters, a grandchild, and one great grandchild.
Source: The Freeburg Tribune (Freeburg, IL), Friday, 1 October 1971, p. 1
She was stircken Tuesday morning at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Cleo Baldwin, 203 North Belleville Street, Freeburg, and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m. upon arrival at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Mrs. Bedwell, ill for six months, had been staying at the Baldwin home for the past nine weeks after she was dismissed from ST. Elizabeth Hospital.
A daughter of the late William and Elizabeth Cornwell, nee Laird, she was born at Newman, Ill., on February 18, 1881. She married E. P. Bedwell at Champaign, Ill, on September 3, 1899. Mr. Bedwell, a railroad employee, died October 17, 1955.
Surviving are two sons, James Bedwell, 414 North 28th Street, Belleville and Harold Bedwell, R. R. 1, Belleville, three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Martin, 1140 South Church St., Belleville, Mrs. Bessie Rasch, 23 South 12th Street, Belleville; and Mrs. Frances Crawford, St. Louis; 19 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven brothers and sisters, a grandchild, and one great grandchild.
Source: The Freeburg Tribune (Freeburg, IL), Friday, 1 October 1971, p. 1
Funeral services for Mrs. Rosella E. Bedwell, 90, of 1140 South Church Street, Belleville, were held at 3:00 p.m. Thursday at the George Renner and Sons Funeral Home, Belleville, with the Rev. Marvin Engelsdorfer, pastor of St. Paul United Church of Christ, in Belleville, officiating. Burial was in the Walnut Hill Cemetery.
She was stircken Tuesday morning at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Cleo Baldwin, 203 North Belleville Street, Freeburg, and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m. upon arrival at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Mrs. Bedwell, ill for six months, had been staying at the Baldwin home for the past nine weeks after she was dismissed from ST. Elizabeth Hospital.
A daughter of the late William and Elizabeth Cornwell, nee Laird, she was born at Newman, Ill., on February 18, 1881. She married E. P. Bedwell at Champaign, Ill, on September 3, 1899. Mr. Bedwell, a railroad employee, died October 17, 1955.
Surviving are two sons, James Bedwell, 414 North 28th Street, Belleville and Harold Bedwell, R. R. 1, Belleville, three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Martin, 1140 South Church St., Belleville, Mrs. Bessie Rasch, 23 South 12th Street, Belleville; and Mrs. Frances Crawford, St. Louis; 19 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven brothers and sisters, a grandchild, and one great grandchild.
Source: The Freeburg Tribune (Freeburg, IL), Friday, 1 October 1971, p. 1
She was stircken Tuesday morning at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Cleo Baldwin, 203 North Belleville Street, Freeburg, and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m. upon arrival at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Mrs. Bedwell, ill for six months, had been staying at the Baldwin home for the past nine weeks after she was dismissed from ST. Elizabeth Hospital.
A daughter of the late William and Elizabeth Cornwell, nee Laird, she was born at Newman, Ill., on February 18, 1881. She married E. P. Bedwell at Champaign, Ill, on September 3, 1899. Mr. Bedwell, a railroad employee, died October 17, 1955.
Surviving are two sons, James Bedwell, 414 North 28th Street, Belleville and Harold Bedwell, R. R. 1, Belleville, three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Martin, 1140 South Church St., Belleville, Mrs. Bessie Rasch, 23 South 12th Street, Belleville; and Mrs. Frances Crawford, St. Louis; 19 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven brothers and sisters, a grandchild, and one great grandchild.
Source: The Freeburg Tribune (Freeburg, IL), Friday, 1 October 1971, p. 1
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