Berry Woodrum, a native of Kentucky but a resident of the Tallula community the past 75 years, died Thursday night, May 24 at the Tallula-Walker nursing home. Had he lived until his next birthday, he would have been nine-four years old.

Mr. Woodrum was born 10 Oct 1872 in Casey Co., Kentucky. He was married 6 Sept. 1881 in Liberty, Kentucky to Loubell Lowe, and the couple came to Illinois where they followed farming for many years. He and Mrs. Woodrum celebrated their seventy-fourth wedding anniversary last September 6.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Irvin C. of Tallula and DeRoy, of Bartonville; three daughters, Beulah (Mrs. Leslie Raikes of Greenview), Mrs. Ezra Masten and Mrs. Harvey Schoneweis, Tallula; twenty-three grandchildren; thirty-one great grandchildren, four great-great grandchildren; one half-brother Benjamin Woodrum, Tallula and a number of nieces and nephews.

The body was taken to the Thompson-Harms & Hurley Funeral home where it remained until Sunday. Services were held Sunday afternoon at the Tallula Christian Church with Rev. George Bateman officiating. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery, Tallula.

Submitted by: Susan Richards