Mabel WORKMAN

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• Fact: Daughter of James Melvin Workman and Sarah Elizabeth Steen

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The Miller County Autogram-Sentinel, April 6, 2000

Mable Fancher Jones, 91, of Iberia died Tuesday, April 4, 2000, at Riverside Hospital in Kankakee, Ill. She was born Aug. 20, 1908, in Iberia to James Melvin and Sarah Elizabeth Steen Workman.

On Feb 1, 1933, she was married in Eldon to Charles D. Fancher, who died Sept 27, 1984. On Nov. 1, 1989, she was married in Iberia to Ernest Clark Jones, who died May 4, 1999.

Mrs. Jones was an English teacher for 33 years, teaching at Spearman, Hickory Point and Mace schools and taught high school at Brumley, Iberia, Tuscumbia, Swedeborg and Waynesville. She retired in 1970.

She was a member of the National Education Association, the Waynesville KKI and was past president of the Waynesville branch of the American Association of University Women. She also was the first president of the Iberia Community Club and helped organize the Iberia Community Betterment Association. She was a member of the Iberia Church of the Nazarene.

Surviving are two sons, Harold Brian Fancher of Puryear, Tenn., and Gary Fancher of Iberia; a daughter, Jane Ashcraft of Wilmington, Ill.; a stepdaughter, Verla Blue of Salem; eight grandchildren; 11 step=grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; 17 step-great-grandchildren; and four step-great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Richard Fancher and a daughter, Laura Fancher.

Visitation will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Rekus Funeral Home in Iberia. The Rev. John Bouldrey will officiate. Burial will be in Livingston Cemetery near Iberia.

Thanks N.T.

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Mabel married Ernest Clark JONES on 1 Nov 1989. Ernest (son of John Thomas JONES and Adora Elizabeth IRVIN) was born on 29 Dec 1908 in Iberia, Miller Co., Missouri; died on 4 May 1999 in Jefferson City, Cole Co., Missouri; was buried in Union Cemetery, Brays, Miller Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mabel married Charles David FANCHER on 1 Feb 1933 in Eldon, Missouri. Charles was born on 15 Jan 1907 in Iberia, Miller Co., Missouri; died on 27 Sep 1984 in Iberia, Miller Co., Missouri; was buried in Livingston Cemetery, Iberia, Miller Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]