Saturday, October 1, 2011

Olivia Harrison Talbert Obit

Danville Commercial News Feb. 23, 1949
Olivia Talbert Dies at 77; Rites Friday

Mrs. Olivia Edna Talbert, 77, widow of George W. Talbert and a resident of Danville 46 years, died Tuesday at the home of a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Swanson, 1010 W. Williams St.
Mrs. Talbert was born in Lafayette July 6, 1871, a daughter of Theodore and Nancy Dye Harrison. She was a member of the EUB Church in Oakwood.
Surviving are five children, Mrs. Carl (Irene) Swanson, Stanley Talbert and Mrs. Leota Collins, Danville; Mrs. Edith Hillman, Crawfordsville, and Mrs. Opal Wilson , Urbana; nine children and eight great-grandchildren; two brothers, Walter Harrison, Delavan, Ill., and Harry Harrison of Danville, and two sisters, Mrs. Nona Vannetta and Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, Potomac.
The body is at the Edmund & Dickson Funeral Home where services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. The Rev. S.E. Fisher of University Place Christian Church, Urbana, will officiate.

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