Michael Ryan

Terry + Shirlee Evans. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 17355442
• Occupation: Chemical Engineer / Du Pont Inc.

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LUCIAN EVANS

Lucian Charles Evans, 87, of ManorCare at Riverview died Friday, April 20, 2001, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria.

Born Aug. 22, 1913 in Alton to Edward and Addie Zimmerman Evans, he married Mildred Lasbury on May 31, 1933, in Alton. She survives.

Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Carolynn McCarty of Hoffman Estates and Mrs. Shirlee (and Terry) Ryan of Charleston, S.C.; one brother, Edward of Tulsa, Okla.; four grandchildren; and one great grandchild.

He was a chemical engineer for DuPont Inc., until retiring in 1974.

He was a member of Scottish Rite Bodies, Vally of Wilmington in Wilmington, Del., and was a 32nd Degree Mason.

A memorial service will be at 6 p.m. Monday at ManorCare at Riverview. The family will receive friends after the service. Cremation ahs been accorded. Endsley Funeral Home and Cremation Center is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be made to Shriner's Hospitals for Children.

Lucian married Mildred Elizabeth Lasbury on 30 May 1934 in Du Quoin, Perry, Illinois, USA. Mildred (daughter of Edwin Woodside Lasbury and Alice Josephine McFetridge) was born on 16 Jun 1913 in Wood River, Madison, Illinois, USA; died on 21 Jan 2004; was buried in Bethalto, Madison, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 17355427

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MILDRED EVANS

Mildred Elizabeth (Lasbury) Evans, 90, former Wood River resident, died Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004, at her home.

She was born June 16, 1913, in Wood River to Edwin and Alice (McFetridge) Lasbury.

Her husband of more than 60 years, Lucian Evans, preceded her in death.

In her younger years, she was an avid softball player. She enjoyed golf and bowling up to her 85th birthday, when physical disabilities prevented her from continuing. She was a member of the Eastern Star in Delaware.

Surviving are two daughters, Shirlee Ryan and her husband, Terry, of Charleston, S.C., and Carolynn McCarty of Chicago; four grandchildren, Kelly Ryan, Michael Ryan and his wife, Victoria, and John and Josie McCarty; two sisters, Ada Goodman-Link and Alice Dvorchak and her husband, Joe, all of Wood River; a sister-in-law, Dorothy Lasbury of Wood River; and many nieces and nephews.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Tom, Eddie, Lester and Bill Lasbury; two sisters, Dorothy Considine and Beatrice Huber.

Memorial services will be conducted at noon Saturday, Jan. 31, at Rose Lawn Memory Gardens Chapel in Behtalto, followed by inurnment.

Ahlgrim and Sons Funeral Home of Palatine, Ill. are in charge of arrangements.

Edward + Addie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 17355268
• Occupation: Stillman / Standard Oil Company

Edwin married Alice Josephine McFetridge on 4 Nov 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Alice (daughter of James McFetridge, II and Mary Kathryn Beide) was born on 20 Sep 1884 in Alton, Madison, Illinois, USA; died on 14 Dec 1981 in Edwardsville, Madison, Illinois, USA; was buried on 17 Dec 1981 in Edwardsville, Madison, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave ID: 17355257
• Residence: 14 Dec 1981, East Alton, Madison, Illinois, USA; Address:
  31 Smith, East Alton, Madison, Illinois, USA

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ALICE JOSEPHINE LASBURY, 97, who with her husband and two sons, moved from Alton to Wood River about the turn of the century when "there wasnt' anything here except watermellon patches and stickers (sandburrs)", died at 4:55 p.m. Monday at Madison County Nursting Home in Edwardsville.

During a celebration of her 90th birthday, the nonagenarian recalled, "There wasn't even a grocery store in Wood River-just our house and a little bitty saloon where the men could get their beer."

It was about 18 months before there were any more people in Wood River, she said.

Born in Alton, a daughter of the late James and Mary (Beide) McFetridge, she married Edwin W. Lasbury in 1904 in St. Louis. He died February, 1939.

Mrs. Lasbury moved from Wood River in 1963 to become the second resident at the Olin Home in East Alton.

Surviving are two sons, Lester of Wood River and William K. of Wheeling, W. Va.; three daughters, Alice Dvorchak of Wood River, Ada Goodman of East Alton, and Mildred Evans of Wilmington, Del.; 17 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be after 4 p.m. Wednesday at Marks Mortuary, where prayer service will be read at 7:30 p.m.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Bethalto with the Rev. William Kekeisen as celebrant, and burial will be in Valley View Cemetery at Edwardsville.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two daughters, Dorothy Considine and Beatrice Huber and two sons, Charles and Thomas Lasbury.

Madison County Nursing Home has been named as a memorial.