Mary Ellen Mealiff

MENDON, Ill. -- Mary Ellen Mealiff, 91, of Mendon died at 10:40 p.m. Thursday (April 28, 2011) in the Blessing Hospital in Quincy.

Mary Ellen was born on Nov. 7, 1919, in Columbus to the late Harry J. and Irma Richard Martin. She married Harold Mealiff on May 17, 1941, in Camp Point. Harold died Jan. 1, 2007.

Mary Ellen was a member of the Congregational Church of Mendon. She had been a member of the Adams County Home Extension since 1941, a member of the Browning Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star since 1946, a mother advisor of the Unity Assembly Rainbow Girls for 29 years, served 16 years as a 4-H leader of the Mendon Merri Maids, was past president and lifetime member of the Unity PTA, and was also a member of the Glenwood Community Club. She enjoyed gardening, cooking, and doing volunteer work.

Surviving are three daughters, Mary Ann Canaday and her husband, Hugh, of Belleville, Virginia Bergmann and her husband, Grant, of Denton, Texas, and Dorothy "Dottie" Joines and her husband, Don, of Maryville; two grandchildren, Heather Smith and her husband, Andrew, of Plano, Texas, and Andrea Klokow and her husband, Doug, of Rogers, Ark.; two great-grandchildren, Allison and Carolyn Smith; five stepgrandchildren; eight stepgreat-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Leaton and Everett Martin, and two sisters, Marjorie Sorensen and Irene Mittermeyer.

SERVICES: 11 a.m. today in the Congregational Church of Mendon with the Rev. Jack Perdue and Mary Jane Arnold conducting. Interment was in the Mendon Cemetery.

VISITATION: 9 to 11 a.m. today in the Congregational Church of Mendon.

MEMORIALS: North Adams Home at Mendon or the Congregational Church of Mendon.

ARRANGEMENTS: Hunter Funeral Home, Mendon.

WEBSITE: www.hunterfh.com.

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