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- Eleanor Ruth Purdy
Mount Vernon. Eleanor Ruth "Peachie" Purdy, 61, died at 1:01 p.m. Sunday, May 18, 1997, at home.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Hughey Funeral Home in Mount Vernon with the Rev. Robert Wiggins officiating. Burial will be in Mount Zion Cemetery north of Bluford. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
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- Couple Wed In Cairo
Miss Eleanor Rapp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Rapp of Mt. Vernon, and Jack E. Purdy, son of Rev. and Mrs. E.B. Purdy of West Franklin were married at the Cairo First Methodist Church July 7.
The Rev. Levan Baylor performed the ceremony. The bridegroom's father is pastor of the West Frankfort First Methodist Church.
The bride is a graduate of Memorial School of Nursing, Springfield. She is employed at Carbondale Clinic, Carbondale.
The bridegroom is a 1960 graduate of Southern Illinois University, where he belonged to Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Eta Sigma fraternities.
After a wedding trip to Tennessee, the Purdys are living at 605 N. 21st St., Murphysboro. Mr. Purdy is employed as apprentice pharmacist at Doctor's Hospital, Carbondale, but will begin studies at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in September.
Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, Illinois. Monday, 1 August 1960.
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