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Rites For Former Area Woman Ethel Red Chase
Funeral services for Ethel Red Chase of Carbondale aged 75 will be at 10 30 a m Friday at Bisch Memorial Home in Shrinefield. The Franklin County Unit of the American Cancer Society will hold its annual volunteers meeting today at Tony's with Mrs Chase the mother of Frank R Chase and Jane Carbondale. She had lived in the county since 1961 and was a Presbyterian Church member born in Omaha Nebraska on July 1 1889. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Cemetery Springfield. She held degrees from the University of Illinois and University of Kansas and taught in university high schools and public schools in Illinois Kansas and Champaign Urbana. Her father designed refrigeration machinery. Police brief notes a speeding fine for Donald L Boedecker in Sparta.