Etta Oursler Coon was born in Adams County (Rome), Ohio, Jan. 16, 1875, and died in the Battle Creek Sanitarium Nov. 23, 1969, after a brief illness.
She was baptized in the Cottonwood River near Oursler Station, Kans., by Rev. H. M. Cottrell, and joined the Nortonville Seventh Day Baptist Church in 1899 when the family moved to Nortonville. She married Floyd Coon in 1902 and they had fifty-five happy years together. A year after her husband's death in 1957 Etta moved to Battle Creek to live with her sister Mrs. Mary Hall.
Memorial services were held in Battle Creek by the pastor, Rev. Eugene Fatato, on November 24th. Her sister then accompanied the body to Nortonville for the funeral in her home church and the burial in Nortonville Cemetery on the 26th. Pastor Paul Osborn commented that she had been a faithful member of the church for just two days short of 70 years.
P. B. O.