Mary Ellen Blacker Peters obit
this appeared in Champaign News Gazette Nov 13, 2001
Mary Ellen Peters, 75, of Paxton, formerly of Monticello died at 7:21 pm, Sunday (Nov 11, 2001) at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana.
Funeral services will be at 11 am Wednesday at Freese Funeral Home, 202 West Main, Sidney. The Rev. Randy Ross will officiate. Burial wil be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Sidney.
Visitation will be from 10 to 11 am Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Peters was born June 29, 1926, at West Salem, a daughter of Dallas Simon and Mary Stillwell Blacker. She married Dwight Orin Peters on June 10, 1946. He died July 9, 1994.
Suriviving are a daughter, Karen Sue Peters Deaton of Lexington, Kentucky; two brothers, Dallas William Blacker of Flat Rock and James Robert Blacker of Sumner; two granddaughters; and two great-grandsons.
Mrs. Peters was affiliated with the Christian Church and was a homemaker.