WUCHERPFENIG, Lillie May (Wade) - b. November 26, 1866 - d. September 24, 1857

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Howard Courant-Citizen
Thursday, October 3, 1957

Lillie May Wade, only daughter of George F. and Catherine Wade, was born in Shelbyville, Illinois, November 26, 1866.

March 1, 1957, she fell and had been confined in a wheel chair until she passed away at her home in Howard, Kansas, Tuesday night, September 24, 1957, after having developed double pneumonia Sunday night, having reached the age of 90 years, 9 months and 28 days.

At the age of four years her mother died and she was then adopted by Humphrey and Lizzie Saunders of Stewardson, Illinois, who changed her name to Lillian Woodward Saunders.  When a small girl she was converted and joined the Baptist church, which she attended faithfully until her church burned, when the congregation joined with the Methodist church.  To this faith she remained all her life.

On March 5, 1892, she was married to Alfred Franklin Wucherpfenig of Stewardson, Illinois.  Mr. Wucherpfenig passed away January 19, 1953.   To this union were born seven children, one son dying in infancy.

They moved to Parsons, Kansas, in 1916, then later to a farm northeast of Howard in 1919, later moving into town in the spring of 1926.

She was a devoted wife and mother, always thinking of her family's well being and the affairs of her community.

She leaves to mourn her passing, a son, Ray, of Howard; five daughters, Leona Noblitt of Arcola, Illinois; Irma Newby of Parsons, Kansas; Esther Morgan, Howard, Kansas; Ina Speer, Winfield, Kansas, and Majorie Simpson of the home; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; one nephew, Raymond Deering of Red Bank, New Jersey, and many neighbors and friends.