DeEtte E. Stillman, daughter of Robert and Anna Crumb Stillman, was born at Crumb Hill, near DeRuyter, N. Y., on June 29, 1852, and died at her home in Nortonville, Kan., on February 10, 1933, after a lingering illness of four weeks.
In her girlhood she lived in Dodge Center, West Hallock, and Farina. In the latter place she was united in marriage to DeElbert C. Coon, which union was broken by the death of her husband on May 14, 1929. In 1881 the family moved to Nortonville, which place had been her home for over fifty years. She was converted in girlhood, and joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church. On January 12, 1884 she became a member of the Nortonville Church by letter from Farina. She was for nearly fifty years a faithful and loyal member of the church. She was a charter member of the Woman's Missionary Society, organized in 1882. She will be remembered as a loving Christian mother, and friend by a host of those who have known her. She bore four sons. LeRoy, the first born, died in infancy. Edgar, the youngest, was stricken by death very suddenly last November. The other two, Floyd and Charley, both of Nortonville, survive their mother. Besides the two sons, there are two grandchildren - Loren Coon of Iowa, and Mrs. Esther Bruns, of this place. Five of her many nieces and nephews live here - Mrs. Augusta Wheeler, Mrs. Addie Babcock, Mrs. Dora Hurley, and Frank and Walter Stillman.
Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. Lester G. Osborn, assisted by Rev. S. I. Ward of the Presbyterian church. L. G. O.
