Obituaries

Source:  Decatur Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois
November, 2000
(Contributed by Nancy Dallas Hibbard)

Alice "Marie" Dallas

MONTICELLO - Alice "Marie" Dallas, 83, of Monticello, formerly of Tuscola, passed away 11 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 1, 2000) in Eastview Terrace, Sullivan.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church, Monticello, with Pastor Darell D. Seest officiating. Visitation was Friday in Hilligoss Shrader Funeral Home, Tuscola. Burial will be in Cartwright Cemetery, Tuscola. Memorials: Sullivan Chapter of Lincolnland Hospice, Monticello First Baptist Church or Eastview Terrace, Sullivan.
Mrs. Dallas was born Nov. 19, 1916, in Tuscola, the daughter of Ivan and Goldie Romine Jacobs. She was a homemaker and member of the First Baptist Church of Monticello, Missionary Society of the church, Piatt County Home Bureau and Senior Center of Monticello. She enjoyed quilting and working on crossword puzzles. She married John William Dallas Dec. 28, 1938, in Rockville, Ind. He preceded her in death June 29, 1989.
Surviving are her son, John Wayne Dallas of Sullivan; daughters, Mrs. Larry (Nancy) Hibbard of Penn Yan, N.Y.; Pam Ernst of Sullivan; brothers, Joe Jacobs of Charleston; Jerry Jacobs of Tuscola; sister, Mrs. Everett (Pauline) Burcham of Decatur; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and many loving friends and neighbors.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and an infant daughter, Marilyn.