Melba G. Beecher ^{1 3 4 5 6 7}

   FamilySearch ID: 2Z3G-XCN.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1920 in Anchor Twp, Mclean, IL. ⁷ Edward J. Beecher, farmer, 35, was living with wife Maud, 31; Ida N., 12; Marvin L., 9; Melba G., 7; and Edward W., 1 11/12 when the census was recorded on 7 Jan 1920. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except Edward's parents were from Germany.

2. Residence: on 18 Aug 1944 in Anchor, McLean, IL. ⁵

3. Residence: on 27 Jan 1952 in Gibson City, Ford, IL. ⁶

4. Residence: on 17 Jul 1970 in Gibson City, Ford, IL. ⁸

5. Residence: on 17 Dec 1986 in Sibley, Ford, IL. ⁴

6. She has conflicting death information of 5 Feb 1992 and Gibson City, Ford, IL. ²

7. Obituary: on 6 Feb 1992 in Colfax, McLean, IL. ² Melba A. Bane, 79, of Sibley, a retired hospital employee, died at 9:30 a.m. yesterday 2-5-1992 at Gibson Community Hospital, Gibson City. Her funeral will be at 3 p.m. Friday at St. John's Lutheran Church, Anchor, the Rev. Melvin C. Blobaum officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Anchor. Visitation will be from 5 - 8 p.m. today at Lamb Funeral Home, Gibson City, and from 2 - 3 p.m. Friday at the church. Mrs. Bane was born 10-26-1912 at Anchor, a daughter of John E. and Maude Hasty Beecher. She married Lee Quinn 11-4-1933 in Covington, Ind. He died 5-19-1975. On 9-22-1979 she married Charles Bane in Anchor. He survives. Other survivors include one son, Charles Quinn, Saybrook; one daughter, Judith Glascock, Sibley; one stepson, Bill Bane, Clarence; three stepdaughters, Mary McCormick, Tolono; Rose Beasley, Austin, TX; and Patricia Farris, Elliott; 24 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren; two brothers, Delmar Beecher, Pontiac, and Ralph Beecher, Bloomington; and one sister, Mildred Trembley, Colfax. Mrs. Bane spent most of her life in the Colfax-Anchor-Saybrook and Gibson City areas and moved to Sibley in 1975. She was employed at Gibson Community Hospital for 10 years retiring in 1978. Mrs. Bane was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and the Sibley American Legion Auxiliary Unit. Memorials may be made to her church or the American Lung Association.

Melba married Roy L. Quinn, son of Henry Quinn and Emma Burro, on 4 Nov 1933 in Anchor: St. John's Lutheran Church, Mclean, IL.¹ (Roy L. Quinn was born on 19 Aug 1900 in Charleston, Coles, IL,¹ died on 19 May 1975 in Gibson City, Ford, IL ^{1 2} and was buried in Anchor: St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Mclean, IL ¹.)

Melba next married Charles Bane on 22 Sep 1979 in Anchor, McLean, IL.²