MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -- Zilah Naomi Bailey was born July 27, 1914, in Grant, Neb., and was preceded in death by her parents, Seymour E. Bailey and Nola Pember Bailey, and one brother, Everett Earl Bailey.
Her father played professional baseball and was a member of the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. Her mother was a milliner and business woman. Zilah graduated from Stratton High School and attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. She taught in a rural one-room school, grades 1-8, in 1933-34.
Zilah was united in marriage in 1935 to William Jennings Powell. They resided and farmed near Stratton, Neb.
Zilah is survived by a son, Bill J. Powell and wife, Darlene of Littleton, Colo.; two grandchildren, Jeff Powell and Michele Tate, and one great-grandson, Nicholas Powell, all of Colorado; and her daughter, Yvonne L. Powell of Mount Pleasant, S.C.; grandsons, Ryan and Sean Carper; and her beloved Peke, Weeson, all of Mount Pleasant. She has numerous nieces and nephews and beloved friends.
Zilah moved to Mount Pleasant to live with her daughter, Yvonne in 2012 and then resided at Somerby Senior Living Center, where she was beloved by many friends, staff and Agape Hospice. She had a lifelong love of baseball and spent her last three birthdays at a Charleston Riverdogs game and lived long enough at age 102 to witness the record 2016 World Series. She was also a pianist and lifelong member of the Stratton United Methodist Church. She will be laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetary in Stratton, Neb.
Memorial services are Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 11 a.m., at Stratton Methodist Church in Stratton, with inurnment following at Rosehill Cemetery.
Her father played professional baseball and was a member of the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. Her mother was a milliner and business woman. Zilah graduated from Stratton High School and attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. She taught in a rural one-room school, grades 1-8, in 1933-34.
Zilah was united in marriage in 1935 to William Jennings Powell. They resided and farmed near Stratton, Neb.
Zilah is survived by a son, Bill J. Powell and wife, Darlene of Littleton, Colo.; two grandchildren, Jeff Powell and Michele Tate, and one great-grandson, Nicholas Powell, all of Colorado; and her daughter, Yvonne L. Powell of Mount Pleasant, S.C.; grandsons, Ryan and Sean Carper; and her beloved Peke, Weeson, all of Mount Pleasant. She has numerous nieces and nephews and beloved friends.
Zilah moved to Mount Pleasant to live with her daughter, Yvonne in 2012 and then resided at Somerby Senior Living Center, where she was beloved by many friends, staff and Agape Hospice. She had a lifelong love of baseball and spent her last three birthdays at a Charleston Riverdogs game and lived long enough at age 102 to witness the record 2016 World Series. She was also a pianist and lifelong member of the Stratton United Methodist Church. She will be laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetary in Stratton, Neb.
Memorial services are Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 11 a.m., at Stratton Methodist Church in Stratton, with inurnment following at Rosehill Cemetery.
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -- Zilah Naomi Bailey was born July 27, 1914, in Grant, Neb., and was preceded in death by her parents, Seymour E. Bailey and Nola Pember Bailey, and one brother, Everett Earl Bailey.
Her father played professional baseball and was a member of the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. Her mother was a milliner and business woman. Zilah graduated from Stratton High School and attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. She taught in a rural one-room school, grades 1-8, in 1933-34.
Zilah was united in marriage in 1935 to William Jennings Powell. They resided and farmed near Stratton, Neb.
Zilah is survived by a son, Bill J. Powell and wife, Darlene of Littleton, Colo.; two grandchildren, Jeff Powell and Michele Tate, and one great-grandson, Nicholas Powell, all of Colorado; and her daughter, Yvonne L. Powell of Mount Pleasant, S.C.; grandsons, Ryan and Sean Carper; and her beloved Peke, Weeson, all of Mount Pleasant. She has numerous nieces and nephews and beloved friends.
Zilah moved to Mount Pleasant to live with her daughter, Yvonne in 2012 and then resided at Somerby Senior Living Center, where she was beloved by many friends, staff and Agape Hospice. She had a lifelong love of baseball and spent her last three birthdays at a Charleston Riverdogs game and lived long enough at age 102 to witness the record 2016 World Series. She was also a pianist and lifelong member of the Stratton United Methodist Church. She will be laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetary in Stratton, Neb.
Memorial services are Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 11 a.m., at Stratton Methodist Church in Stratton, with inurnment following at Rosehill Cemetery.
Her father played professional baseball and was a member of the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame. Her mother was a milliner and business woman. Zilah graduated from Stratton High School and attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. She taught in a rural one-room school, grades 1-8, in 1933-34.
Zilah was united in marriage in 1935 to William Jennings Powell. They resided and farmed near Stratton, Neb.
Zilah is survived by a son, Bill J. Powell and wife, Darlene of Littleton, Colo.; two grandchildren, Jeff Powell and Michele Tate, and one great-grandson, Nicholas Powell, all of Colorado; and her daughter, Yvonne L. Powell of Mount Pleasant, S.C.; grandsons, Ryan and Sean Carper; and her beloved Peke, Weeson, all of Mount Pleasant. She has numerous nieces and nephews and beloved friends.
Zilah moved to Mount Pleasant to live with her daughter, Yvonne in 2012 and then resided at Somerby Senior Living Center, where she was beloved by many friends, staff and Agape Hospice. She had a lifelong love of baseball and spent her last three birthdays at a Charleston Riverdogs game and lived long enough at age 102 to witness the record 2016 World Series. She was also a pianist and lifelong member of the Stratton United Methodist Church. She will be laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetary in Stratton, Neb.
Memorial services are Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 11 a.m., at Stratton Methodist Church in Stratton, with inurnment following at Rosehill Cemetery.
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