The Lima News
Lima, Ohio
4 May, 1938

Mrs. Alta Gilliland

    ST MARYS, May 4 – Local relatives have received word of the death of Mrs. Alta Gilliland, 52, (Emma Koehn) at her home in Stoy, Ill.
    Mrs. Gilliland is survived by her husband and two sons, Herbert, Stoy, and Harold Gilliland, Toledo; her father, Charles Koehn, St. Marys; two brothers and four sisters: Clarence Koehn, Watervelie,* N.Y., Fred Koehn, Wapakoneta; Mrs. J. W. Lewis and Mrs. Herbert Makley, St. Marys, Mrs. Henry Seewer, Shelburn, Ind., and Mrs. Henry Schulz, Ambur, India.
    Mrs. Gilliland’s body will be brought Wednesday evening to the home of her sister, Mrs. Lewis, 315 N. West-st. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Lewis home with Rev. R.W. Willmann officiating. Burial will be in Elmgrove.

*I believe this should have read either Waterville or Watervliet, NY.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013