TRAVIS, Ethel

LONGMONT TIMES May 4-5 1968 page 3 MRS. ETHEL TRAVIS DIED IN ILLINOIS Mrs. Ethel E. Travis, former resident of Longmont, died Friday, May 3, in Rantoul, Ill, where she had gone to live with her daughter. She was 83. Born in Elgin, Neb. on Aug 27, 1884, she went with her family in 1890 to California in a covered wagon and the lived there until 1907 when they returned to Colorado and homesteaded at Akron. She married George W. Travis in 1910 and in 1920 the couple moved to Longmont. They lived at 200 Lincoln St, until 1963 when they both went to a nursing home here. Mr. Travis died there in 1965, and in 1966 Mrs. Travis went to Rantoul, Illinois to live with her daughter, Mrs. El Dora Ziebarth. Mrs Travis was a member of the First Methodist Church and the Oliver Circle of that organization. Survivors include two sons, Oliver J. of Fountain Valley, CA, and Dean O of Kansas City, MO, one daughter, Mrs Ziebarth of Rantoul, Ill, one brother, Clarence Chapman of Longmont, 12 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Tues at 1:30 p.m. at Lewellen Funeral Home, with Rev Richard Dearing officiating. Interment will be at Mountain View Cemetery. NOTE: Ethel's husband George W Travis is buried along side her. Ethel and George W: Lot 50, Block 47...spaces 1 and 2.