Elsie Lou Huffington

Services for Elsie Lou Huffington, 83, Marshall, were Saturday, Nov. 5, at Marshall First United Methodist Church. Burial was in Marshall Cemetery.Mrs. Huffington died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005, at Heartland Nursing Center in Casey, Ill.She was born Jan. 22, 1922, in Terre Haute, Ind., the daughter of Joseph and Glenna Thompson Cork.Mrs. Huffington was a member of Marshall First United Methodist Church and a 60-year member of Order of the Eastern Star Marshall Chapter 739. She was also a member of Daughters of the American Revolution Walter Burdick Chapter, Clark County Republican Women’s Club, the Burnsides Guild and Clark County Historical Society.She married E.J. “Jack” Huffington on June 23, 1942. He survives, of the home.Other survivors include four daughters, Virginia “Ginny” Collins, Casey, Ill., Janet Crow, Lawrence, Kan., Carol Huffington, Okeechobee, Fla., and Cathy Smithson, of Decatur and Galesburg, Ill.; nine grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.The family suggests memorials to the Organ Fund at the church or Heartland Nursing Center, sent in care of Prust-Hosch Funeral Chapel, 313 E. Union St., West Union, IL 62477.