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Alton Evening Telegraph 5 Dec 1957
Charles E. Slieff
A former Altontian, Charles Elery Sheff, 67, died Wednesday afternoon at West Los Angeles, Ca lif., according to word received by Alton area relatives. He had been in ill health for som e time, and a daughter, Mrs. Adeline Drury of Godfrey, had been in West Los Angeles attendin g him since Thanksgiving.
Mr. Sheff was born May 3, 1890 at Eldred. He was married to Laura Ellen Snider in Alton, an d they would have observed their 48th anniversary of their marriage, Dec. 22, had he lived.
With his family he moved from Alton to California in 1939. He had been eomplyed here for a n umber of years by Hyndman Ice and Coal Co. In California he had been in the trucking business .
In addition to his widow and daughter, Mrs. Drury, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Marc ella Bennett and Mrs, Marlene Baker, Los Angeles; six sons, Chester, Harold, Leroy, Paul, Dav id and Richard, all of California; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Nicholson of Edgar Springs, Mo., a nd Mrs. Lily Romane, Franklin Spur, .III.; 26 grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Robert.
Funeral services and burial will be at Santa Monica, Calif.
The body is at Kingsley Ð Gales Funeral Homo, Santa Monica.
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