Eleanor Ruth Rapp
1936 - 1998 (62 years)-
Name Eleanor Ruth Rapp Born 11 Jan 1936 Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois 
[1, 2] Gender Female Died 18 May 1998 Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois [1, 3] Buried Mount Zion Cemetery, Bluford, Jefferson County, Illinois [1, 3] Person ID I4754 Hedges Last Modified 20 Apr 2024
Father Clyne Marshall Rapp, b. 20 Mar 1911, Illinois , d. 16 Apr 1984, Bluford, Jefferson County, Illinois (Age 73 years) Mother Hattie Lourena Crouch, b. 20 Apr 1916, Belle Rive, Jefferson County, Illinois , d. 6 Sep 2001, Bluford, Jefferson County, Illinois (Age 85 years) Married 1939 [4] Family ID F1340 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jack Eldridge Purdy, b. 6 May 1938, Creal Springs, Williamson County, Illinois , d. 27 Jun 2012, Carbondale, Williamson County, Illinois (Age 74 years) Married 7 Jul 1960 Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois Last Modified 13 Dec 2021 Family ID F2083 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 11 Jan 1936 - Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois 
Married - 7 Jul 1960 - Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois 
Died - 18 May 1998 - Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois 
Buried - - Mount Zion Cemetery, Bluford, Jefferson County, Illinois = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Eleanor Ruth Purdy
Mount Vernon. Eleanor Ruth "Peachie" Purdy, 61, died at 1:01 p.m. Sunday, May 18, 1997, at home.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Hughey Funeral Home in Mount Vernon with the Rev. Robert Wiggins officiating. Burial will be in Mount Zion Cemetery north of Bluford. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
[1, 3] - Couple Wed In Cairo
Miss Eleanor Rapp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Rapp of Mt. Vernon, and Jack E. Purdy, son of Rev. and Mrs. E.B. Purdy of West Franklin were married at the Cairo First Methodist Church July 7.
The Rev. Levan Baylor performed the ceremony. The bridegroom's father is pastor of the West Frankfort First Methodist Church.
The bride is a graduate of Memorial School of Nursing, Springfield. She is employed at Carbondale Clinic, Carbondale.
The bridegroom is a 1960 graduate of Southern Illinois University, where he belonged to Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Eta Sigma fraternities.
After a wedding trip to Tennessee, the Purdys are living at 605 N. 21st St., Murphysboro. Mr. Purdy is employed as apprentice pharmacist at Doctor's Hospital, Carbondale, but will begin studies at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in September.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, Illinois. Monday, 1 August 1960.
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