loise (Price) Hebble.

FOREST - Eloise Price Hebble, 408 Mad River St., Forest, died at 7 p.m. Wednesday, at the Kenton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 95.

  Born in Forest on Nov. 16, 1908, she was the daughter of William Bradley and Gwendolen (Cessna) Price. She married Harry Hamel on Aug. 16, 1938. He died June 1, 1965. She then married Charles M. Hebble on May 10, 1969. He died Dec. 5, 1998.

  Surviving are a stepson, Charles Hebble, Cape Haze, Fla.; a stepdaughter, Joan Haydock, Cincinnati; seven stepgrandchildren; 16 stepgreat-grandchildren; two nephews and a niece; two great-nephews and three great-nieces; and three great-great-nephews and a great-great-niece. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Russell, Harry and Bradley Price; a nephew; and two great-nieces.

  A 1926 graduate of Forest High School, Mrs. Hebble graduated from Western College for Women in Oxford in 1930. She was a retired music and language educator, having taught at Salem Centralized, Everett Junior High, Alexandria Public and Forest-Jackson schools. She also operated Hamel Insurance Agency in Forest for a number of years.

  She attended First Presbyterian Church in Forest.

  Mrs. Hebble was the 1933 Miss Hardin County for the county’s centennial celebration, and also was honored in 1983 and 2003. She was the Forest Committee chairwoman of the Hardin County 150th Celebration in 1983. Mrs. Hebble was a co-founder of the Forest-Jackson Public Library in 1937, and was a member of the Forest Jackson Building Fund Committee, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, the former Hardin County University Women’s Club No. 1 and of the Ohio and Hardin County retired teachers associations. She also performed in the Gilbert-Sullivan opera in Brooklyn, N.Y.

  The funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Shields Funeral Home in Forest, with the Rev. Rex Roth officiating. Burial will be in Hueston Cemetery. Visitation is Wednesday from 4-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

  Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church in Forest, or to the Forest-Jackson Public Library.¹

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 ¹Kenton Times:The Obituaries (Kenton, OH) 22 Oct 2004.