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Marie Ashby
Visitation: Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM Corn-Colvin Funeral Home 323 N. Main St. Oakland City, IN 47660 Service: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:00 AM Corn-Colvin Funeral Home 323 N. Main St. Oakland City, IN 47660	VIEW/SEND CONDOLENCES
Marie Ashby age 101 passed away Monday Sept. 7, 2009 at the Amber Manor Nursing Home in Petersburg. She was born Feb. 7, 1908 in Pike Co., IN to Cleveland and Mae (Powers) Beard. She was a homemaker. She lived in Littles area most of her life and had attended the Littles General Baptist Church. She is survived by a daughter Mary Ruth Copple, Winslow, two sons; Gerald (Dixie) Hale, Portage, IN. and Kenny (Kaye) Hale, Winslow, several grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Marie was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband Claude Nelson Hale and her second husband, Lowell Ashby in 1997, eight children; Goldie Bradfield, Donald Hale, Vivian Grubb, Dave Hale, Lewis Hale, Terry Hale, Karen Ham and Joan Hale, five brothers and sisters, grandson, Frankie Hale and great grandson, Jonathan Hale. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday CDT Sept. 11, 2009 at the Corn Colvin Funeral Home in Oakland City, with Rev. Keith Jenkins officiating. Burial will follow in the Martin Cemetery near Glezen. Visitation will be from 4 until 8 p.m. CDT Thursday at the Corn-Colvin Funeral Home.