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Burton Arthur Vance

Mary V. Vance Sanders

 

 

Press Gazette

Friday, October 18, 1868

 

Double Services

 

An elderly brother and sister died within hours of each other here early this week.

 

Burton Arthur Vance, 80, Hillsboro, Rt. 2, died at 5 P. M. Monday at Highland District Hospital and his sister, Mrs. Mary V. Sanders, 87, 151 West South Street, Hillsboro, died at her home at 7:30 A. M. Tuesday.

 

Vance was born near New Market May 8, 1888, the son of David Ellison and Effie Wilkin Vance, and Mrs. Sanders was born Oct 10, 1881.

 

Vance was a member of the Modern Woodmen Lodge and the New Market Baptist Church.

 

He is survived by his wife, Lottie Sanders Vance; one daughter, Martha Fawley, Hillsboro, Rt. 7; a sister, Mrs. Mabel V. Smith, Hillsboro, and two grandsons.

 

Mrs. Sanders was a member of the New Market Baptist Church. Her husband Homer L. Sanders died May 8, 1958.

 

In addition to her sister, Mrs. Mable V. Smith, she is survived by a daughter, Miss Helen Sanders, Cincinnati.

 

Joint services will be held Friday, at 2 P. M. at the Rhoads Funeral Home, Hillsboro, with burial at the New Market Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Floyd Bogard will officiate.

 

Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 2 to 4 P. M. and 7 to 9 P.M. The family said that donations may be made to the Highland District Hospital.

 

 

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