Hickenbottom, Lela Elizabeth

1925 - 2005  (80 years)

• Name	Hickenbottom, Lela Elizabeth
  Birth	18 Jul 1925	Clay County, Illinois   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	HICK.L002
  _FGRAVE	26985021
  Death	31 Dec 2005	Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana   [2]
  Burial	Bunker Cemetery, Rinard, Wayne County, Illinois
  Person ID	I18192	Carl Wayne Gray Research
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2022

  
  

  Father	Hickenbottom, Allen Wesley,   b. 2 Mar 1898, Clay County, Illinois d. 14 Feb 1914, La Salle, LaSalle County, Illinois (Age 15 years)
  Mother	Hamilton, Alice,   b. 1 May 1902, Illinois d. 9 Aug 1988 (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Family ID	F8126	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Michels, Albert C.,   b. 1921   d. 1999 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F19290	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 18 Jul 1925 - Clay County, Illinois Death - 31 Dec 2005 - Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana Burial - - Bunker Cemetery, Rinard, Wayne County, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Lela Elizabeth Michels, 80, of rural Cisne, died at 3:45 a.m. Saturday, December 31, 2005, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Hosselton Funeral Home in Cisne. There will be no visitation. Burial will be in Bunker Cemetery in Rinard. Mrs. Michels was born on July 18,1925, in rural Clay City, the daughter of Allen and Alice (Hamilton) Hickenbottom. She married Albert C. Michels on August 11,1943, in Flora. He preceded her in death on September 13,1999. She was a homemaker, a mother and a member of Bethel United Methodist Church in Clay City. Mrs. Michels is survived by her daughter, Becky Rodgers and her husband, Delbert, of Cisne; three sons, Jay Michels, of Cisne, Allen Michels and his wife, Kathy, of Cisne, and Wilbur Michels, of Clay City; two sisters, Leah Boudreau, of Olney, and Joyce Powell, of Clay City; one half-sister, Alice Childers and her husband, Larry, of Flora; one stepsister, Betty Thomas, of Flora; one brother, Wesley Hickenbottom, of Claremont; three half-brothers, Jimmy Thomas and his wife, Della, of Clay City, Ellery Thomas and his wife, Marie, of Ingraham, and Sherman Thomas and his wife, Patty, of Clay City; one stepbrother, Tommy Thomas and his wife, Maxine, of Flora; and 11 grandchildren, Sarah and Brian Keck, Mary Sue Rodgers, Ben and Kassi Michels, Rob Michels, Emily Michels, Lukas Rodgers, Kasey Michels, Kari and Curt Hancock, Elizabeth Fore, Scott Michels and Logan Michels. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert, her mother, Alice Thomas, and her father, Allen Hickenbottom. Memorials may be made-to American Heart Association. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. The Olney (IL) Daily Mail, December 2005

  
  

• Sources

  [S1533] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois, (District 0004) (Township), image 07, page 4a, (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6224/4584337_00620?backurl=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fsearch%2fdb.aspx%3fd), none. (Reliability: 2). [S4582] http://www.findagrave.com, Obituary, Boudreau, Leah H, 86, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27913648/leah-halene-boudreau), none. (Reliability: 2).