Mary June Hosselton of Clay City died on Sunday, August 14, 2016, at Deaconess Hospital Hospice Center in Evansville, Indiana.
As a teenager, she worked at a drug store soda fountain. After moving from Kansas City, Mary resided in Centralia, Illinois as a housewife and was a volunteer at the hospital and was active in the school PTA. She worked for the Midwest Truckers Association in the 1970’s with an office in Salem, Illinois and she was the secretary and field representative for the tri state area of southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and northern Kentucky. She and her husband later moved to Clay City where she helped on the family farm.
Survivors include her husband Claren of Clay City; a daughter, Sherry (Peterson) Newton-Lence (husband Greg) of Anna, IL; a son, Lee Hosselton (wife Ashley) of Clay City; a daughter-in-law, Cheryl (Thomas) Peterson-Piontkowski (husband Gary) of Ft. Myers, FL; five grandchildren and four great grandchildren; one sister, Martha Alice Watts of Kansas City, MO; two brothers-in-law: Kenneth Bears of Morrisville, MO, and Larry Hosselton (wife Kay) of Clay City; four sisters-in-law: Rosemary Mainprize of Thayer, MO, Shirley Macdougal of Grandview, MO, Margaret Garrison of Independence, MO, and Margaret R. Garrison of Arkansas; twenty one nieces and nephews; and many other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services for Mary Hosselton will be 10 a.m. Saturday, August 20 at the Frank & Bright Funeral Home in Flora with burial in Zif Cemetery south of Flora.
Visitation will be 5 – 8 Friday evening, August 19 at the Frank & Bright Funeral Home in Flora.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Zif Cemetery Fund or to the charity of the donor’s choice and these will be accepted at the Frank & Bright Funeral Home in Flora.