- Gladys P. "Gadget" Schnell, 82, of Clay City, died at 4:20 p.m. Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Summers-Kistler Funeral Home in Clay City. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home with Reverend Chuck Anthony officiating. Burial will be in Clay City Cemetery.
Mrs. Schnell was born on May 14, 1921, in Dossville, Miss., the daughter of Clyde and Girlie (Sosbee) Turner. She married Manley Schnell. He survives.
She was retired after 50 years as a hairdresser.
Mrs. Schnell is survived by her husband, Manley Schnell, of Clay City; several nieces and nephews they raised as their children, Bill McKnight and his wife, Katherine, of Carmel, Ind., Jim McKnight, of Noble, Keith McKnight and his wife, Susan, of Fairfield, Patricia McKnight, of Effingham, Bob Bute, of Louisville, and Linda Sue Totez and her husband, Dick, of Glendale, Ariz.; several other nieces and nephews; six brothers, William Turner, of New Mexico, Major Turner, of Carthage, Miss., Lavon Turner, of Carthage, Miss., Clyde Turner, of Springfield, Mo., Colon Turner, of Arkansas, and Rodger Turner, of McGee, Miss.; and three sisters, Faye Raffield, of Hemet, Calif., Joann McMillian, of Rushville, and Frances Morgan, of Effingham.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister.
The Olney (IL) Daily Mail, January 2004
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