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     Roger Eugene Courtney Jr. was buried at Gardens of Memory, 11201 South Marion Road 35, Huntington, Huntington Co., Indiana.² His Social Security Number was 303-54-8649.⁴ He was born on April 13, 1950 at Marion, Grant Co., Indiana.^1,4 He married Jill Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Donald Howard and Priscilla Anne Walls, on June 15, 1968 at Marion, Grant Co., Indiana.¹ Roger Eugene Courtney Jr. died on April 7, 1973 at Campbell Co., Kentucky, at age 22.^4,3

     Roger Eugene Courtney III was buried at Gardens of Memory, 11201 South Marion Road 35, Huntington, Huntington Co., Indiana.¹ He was born on November 28, 1968 at Marion, Grant Co., Indiana.¹ He died on January 27, 1974 at Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana, at age 5.¹

     His Social Security Number was 308-86-9233.⁴ Casey Douglas Sparling was buried at Lagro I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Lagro Township, Wabash Co., Indiana.^2,3 He was born on August 11, 1975 at Wabash Co., Indiana.^2,3,4 He died on December 19, 1997 at North Manchester, Wabash Co., Indiana, at age 22; His gravestone has a death date of Dec 20, 1997.^2,3,4

     Infant Williams died on November 15, 1957 at Wabash Co., Indiana.¹ Infant Williams was born on November 15, 1957 at Wabash Co., Indiana.¹

     Lela J. Lilly was buried at Sunset Memorial Park, Beckley, Raleigh Co., West Virginia.^3,2 Her Social Security Number was 236-90-1796.⁴ She was born on February 19, 1914 at Winding Gulf, Raleigh Co., West Virginia; The SSDI has a birth date of Feb 20, 1914.^4,1 As of September 1, 1932,her married name was Bower.¹ She married James Clyde "Jimmie" Bower, son of Luther Bower and Lessie Mae Parker, on September 1, 1932 at Coal City, Raleigh Co., West Virginia.^1,2 Lela J. Lilly died on March 21, 1999 at Beckley, Raleigh Co., West Virginia, at age 85.^3,4,2 She Lela J. Lilly Bower, 85, of Coal City, died Sunday, March 21, 1999, in a Beckley hospital following a short illness. Born Feb. 19, 1914, at Winding Gulf, she was the daughter of the late Douglas and Maude Lunsford Lilly. Mrs. Bower was a homemaker and a member of the Coal City Missionary Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, James “Jimmy” Bower; a son, Clyde Vernon Bower; three brothers, Don Lilly, Arnold Lilly and Orville Lilly; and two sisters, Aldina Bolen and Ruth Hudson. Survivors include a son, Von Bower and wife, Carol, of Coal City; three daughters, Rosemary Thomas and her husband, Jack, of Coal City, Barbara Helvey and her husband, Vernon, of Covington, Va., and Nora Keen and her husband, Eddie, of Christiansburg, Va; three brothers, Ray Lilly of Georgia, Sherman Lilly of Blountville, Tenn., and Lawrence Lilly of Beckley; two sisters, Venora Kerwood of Florida and Elva Barker of Spotsylvania, Va; 12 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Services will be 11 a.m. today at Coal City Community Church, with the Revs. Jack Tankersley and Grayson Lilly officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park, Beckley. Friends called 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at Williams-Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Sophia, and may call one hour before the services today at the church. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. on March 23, 1999.²