DOROTHY PETTY

PETTY, MILLS, MYERS, DUNCAN

Posted By: Barb Kelley (email)
Date: 1/8/2006 at 07:47:02

The Clinton Herald
Published: January 05, 2006 12:56 pm

DOROTHY PETTY

SAVANNA, Ill. — Dorothy Petty, 85, of Savanna, Ill., and formerly of Mount Carroll, died Tuesday at her home.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Frank-Law-Jones Funeral Home, Mount Carroll. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll. The Rev. Mark Harkness, pastor of Mount Carroll United Methodist Church, will be officiating. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the service time Saturday at the funeral home.

She was born Jan. 26, 1920, to Cloyd and Lura Mills in Wayne City, Ill. She married Charles Myers in February of 1941 in St. Louis. She and her husband lived in Danville, Ill., before moving to Mount Carroll. He died in 1957. She then married Robert Petty on July 29, 1961, in Mount Carroll. He died in 1981.

She attended school in Wayne City and graduated from Mount Vernon High School.

She worked as an assistant librarian at Frances Shimer College, Mount Carroll, for 30 years and at Eaton Corp., Savanna, for 10 years.

She was a member of Mount Carroll United Methodist Church.

Survivors include three children, Robert (Judith) Duncan of Brandon, Fla., Charles (Jeanne) Myers of Columbia, Md., and Stephen (Elizabeth) Myers of Dallas; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Condolences may be made online at www.lawjonesfuneralhome.com.

She was preceded in death by one brother, one daughter and both husbands.

Death date: Jan. 3, 2006