MARVEL (BRAINARD) BATTERTON

Marvel Batterton Of Macomb Dies

Marvel Batterton, 91, of the Macomb Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a former Ipava resident, died at 2:40 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, 1990, at McDonough District Hospital in Macomb.

She was born Sept. 12, 1898, in Astoria, a daughter of Charles and Sylvia (Camp) Brainard. She married Arley L. Batterton Feb. 7, 1917 at Havana. He died Dec. 12, 1984.

Surviving are one son, Virgil Batterton of Galesburg; one daughter, Evelyn Thomas of Table Grove; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; three great, great-grandchildren; one sister, Rosie Baugh of St. Louis, Mo.; and one brother, Eldon Brainard of Medford, Ore.

She was preceded in death by two sons, two grandsons, one great-grandson, three sisters, and one brother.

She was a member of the Berean Christian Church of Ipava and a former member and past president of the Macomb Nursing and Rehabilitation Center resident council.

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Shawgo Memorial Home in Ipava. Burial was in Ipava Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Macomb Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

 

Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 9/12/1990