{"id":7159,"date":"2025-04-15T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:33:29","slug":"mary-ellen-semple-102-of-west-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/7159-mary-ellen-semple-102-of-west-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ellen Semple (102) of West Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Mary Ellen (Slichenmyer) Semple, age 102, of West Liberty, Illinois, went to be with her Lord on Monday, April 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM \u2013 Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at the Meyer Funeral Home in Olney, Illinois, with Garry Hostettler and Rick Catt officiating. The burial will be in the Haven Hill Cemetery in Olney, Illinois. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM \u2013 Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at the funeral home. Arrangements are under the care of the Meyer Funeral Home in Olney, Illinois. In loving memory of Mary, the family requests memorials to be made to the Carmi Baptist Children\u2019s Home (Carmi, Illinois) or HSHS Hospice Care of Effingham. The obituary can be viewed, and condolences left at www.meyerfh.com.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Ellen was born on February 6, 1923, in Richland County, Illinois, the daughter of Charles Omer and Verna Ethel (Fleming) Slichenmyer. Mary graduated from Olney High School, class of 1941. She married Chester Eugene Semple on March 31, 1951, and moved to the Bogota area where they farmed. They moved to the West Liberty area in 1973, taking over the Semple family farm from Chester\u2019s mother. The farm has been in the family for over 140 years. Mary was a member of the Bogota Baptist Church. She loved to quilt and made each of her children and grandchildren a handmade quilt. She also made quilts for many charitable auctions and donated quilts to the Baptist Children\u2019s Home in Carmi.<\/p>\n<p>Mary is survived by son Melvin Walker, Scottsville, Kentucky; daughter Verna Mae Semple, Newton, Illinois; sons Charles (Lynn) Semple of Teutopolis, Illinois; George (Lora) of West Liberty, Illinois; Paul (Janice) of Effingham, Illinois; Dale (Janice) of Effingham, Illinois; Glen (Karen) of Champaign, Illinois; sister-in-law Kathy Slichenmyer of Olney, Illinois, 15 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Mary was preceded in death by her parents, husband, sister Wanda Egleston, brother-in-law Jim Egleston, brothers Joe Slichenmyer, Stanley Slichenmyer, sister-in-law Wilma Slichenmyer, great-grandsons Keith Walker, Parker Finley, great-granddaughter Lauren Finley, daughter-in-law Patti Walker, infant great-granddaughter Vera Semple, and granddaughter Sarah Semple.<\/p>\n<p>The family would like to express its gratitude to the staff of Willowbrook Memory Support Residences of Effingham for the excellent care they provided and where Mary lived for the last few years, and to Hospice Care of Effingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ellen died on Monday, April 14th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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