Eleanor Gee

Eleanor Louise (McCulley) Gee passed away peacefully early Easter morning, April 8th, 2012 at the Solon Nursing Care Center after her 90th birthday last month. Louise, as most knew her, was born to Everett and Bette (Sewell) McCulley in Blue Mound, IL. March 3, 1922. She spent her youth in central Illinois with parents, two sisters, and one brother. She married John W. Gee, September 25, 1942 in Waycross, GA. She spent a few years at Army Air Corps bases in Georgia and Florida while husband John served in Africa, Sicily, and Italy. After the war they moved back to central Illinois, spending more than 50 years in Decatur and raising their three children. Louise was a homemaker, worked at Zimmerman's Fabrics, and worked at Linn & Scruggs Dept. Store teaching knitting. She also enjoyed crocheting, needlepoint, tatting, flowers, and birds. Louise and John volunteered in many ways through St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Dove, Meals on Wheels, and St. Mary's Hospital, Decatur, IL. She is preceded in death by husband John William Gee, May 25, 2000; parents Leslie Everett McCulley and Bethana E. (Sewell) McCulley; sisters Geneva Ufert (Dan), Dorothy Lust, brother Cecil "Butch" McCulley (Betty); granddaughter Sarah Gee. She is survived by children Jacqueline Lou Evans (Ron), Nancy Jane Magill (H. Lynn), John Kent Gee (Avis); grandchildren Julie Gurski (Greg), Amy Becker, Brian Sharp (fiancé Dawn), Aaron Magill, D. Eric Magill (Theresa), Amelia Gee (fiancé Matt), and Jennifer Gee. Surviving great-grandchildren include: Madison, Connor, and Alec Gurski; C.J. and Evan Becker; Faith Sharp; Aurora Michaud-Magill; Garrett, Bailey, Logan, and Maggie Magill. Visitation will be Friday morning, April 13, 2012, 10:00 a.m.-noon, followed by the funeral at 1:30 p.m. at Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Home, 2827 North Oakland Street, Decatur, IL 62526. She will be interred with husband John in Macon County Memorial Park, Harristown, Illinois. Memorials will be directed to Dove, Inc. 788 E. Clay Street, Decatur, IL 62521. "
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