- Joe A. Mewes, 67, of West Salem, died at 7:58 p.m. Monday, September 27, 2004, at Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Zion United Methodist Church in West Salem. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the church with Reverend Mike Rucker officiating. Stasi-Grove Funeral Home in Olney is in charge of arrangements.
Burial will be in Zion United Methodist Cemetery in West Salem.
Mr. Mewes was born on May 3, 1937, in rural Edwards County, the son of Fred and Geneva (Koertge) Mewes.
He worked as a barber in Albion and West Salem and as an auctioneer for Wiley Auction & Real Estate. He was a retired farmer, former mayor of West Salem and a past member of West Salem Ruritan. He loved to stay busy and found time to work in his woodworking shop. He loved hunting pheasants, deer and rabbits, blue gill fishing, grilling out and clearing landscape underbrush in wooded areas. He was a former owner of the West Salem car wash and laundromat. But his greatest love was for his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, friends and neighbors.
Mr. Mewes is survived by his fiancee, Virginia Jones, of West Salem; three sons, Garrey Holdrieth, of Olney, Jack Holdrieth, of Olney, and Jay Mewes and his wife, Denise, of Chickasha, Okla.; two daughters, Becky Luther and her husband, Eric, of Olney, and Tina Smith and her husband, Jamie, of Yale; two brothers, Kenny Mewes and his wife, June, of Bone Gap, and Jerry Mewes and his wife, Marilyn, of Bone Gap; a sister, Nancy Wiley and her husband, John, of Parkersburg; and 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Memorials may be made to Zion United Methodist Church in West Salem.
The Olney (IL) Daily Mail, September 2004
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1937 - 2004 (67 years)
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