JACKSONVILLE DAILY JOURNAL - JUNE 21, 1956
Mrs. Mary Etta Armitage of Woodson, 82, died at 7:30 Wednesday morning at the Passavant Hospital where she had been a patient for the past 10 days. Mrs. Armitage was the wife of the late Walter Armitage.
She was born at Exeter Jan. 13, 1874, daughter of Jasper and Mary Pratt Taylor. She is survived by two children, a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Erixon of Woodson and a son, Otto Armitage of Jacksonville. There are three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. One brother, William Taylor of Jacksonville also survives.
The deceased was a member of the Christian Church at Exeter.
The body was taken to the Williamson funeral home where services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday with the Rev. R. E. May in charge. Interment will be made in the Exeter cemetery. The family will meet friends at the funeral home from 7:30 to 9:30 Thursday night.
Bluff Times, Date Unknown
Judith Alberta Armitage, second daughter of Israel and Elmira Armitage, was born at the Israel Armitage homestead in Exeter, Illinois, March 19, 1877, and died at her home in Bluffs, Illinois, Saturday evening, June 5th, at 9 o�clock; aged 38 years, two months and 17 days.
In the old home at Exeter she grew to young womanhood, when at the age of 18 years she was united in marriage to Edward L. Six, of Exeter, IL. March 20, 1895. To this union were given five children, all of whom are living, name; Inez, Esther, Allan, Harry and Helen.
Besides the husband and children who are bereft of a dear one, she leaves two own sisters, Mrs. Wyatt Simpson of Mt. Sterling, IL., and Mrs. Onslow Leib of Exeter, IL.; two own brothers, Stewart Armitage of Mt. Sterling and Fred Armitage of Exeter; a half-sister, Mrs. S. D. Borum of Muskogee, Okla., and three half brothers, Walter Armitage of Murrayville, IL., Walker Armitage of Exeter, and Charles Armitage of Waterbury, Connecticut; also five nieces and five nephews.
Having been born and reared in this immediate vicinity, �Bert� as she was familiarly known,, had formed the life-long friendship of many friends and associates who will sadly miss her.
She was a faithful wife, and a loving, devoted, self-sacrificing mother, her one and constant thought being for the highest interests and best welfare of her children.
While she never openly united with any church, she had the deepest reverence and respect for things sacred and divine, and had expressed a wish that her funeral be from the Christian church in her home town. Not only will she be sadly missed by those for whom she has lived all, and been all, but by a wide circle of neighbors, friends and relatives.
Funeral services were conducted from the Christian church at Exeter, IL. , on Monday afternoon. Rev. H. S. Peak assisted by Rev. M. O. Beebe, officiating. Interment in the Exeter cemetery.
Submitted by: Joann Brasel