- Elizabeth Mollett age 84 of north of Greenville, passed away at 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at Helia Health Care with her family at her side.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the Donnell-Wiegand Funeral Home in Greenville with Rev. David Klasing officiating. Interment will follow in Brown Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4 until 8 p.m. Friday at Donnell-Wiegand. For those who desire memorials may be made to the Greenville First Baptist Church or the Greenville Public Library.
Anna Elizabeth Hubbell, the daughter of Howard Edgar Hubbell and Lena Augusta Hughey Hubbell, was born on August 30, 1927 on the Hughey-Hubbell Farm in LaGrange township north of Greenville. She grew up there and attended Cherry Grove one room school and graduated from Greenville High School in 1944. Elizabeth attended Blackburn College in Carlinville. She then taught fourth grade in Vandalia for four years.
Elizabeth and Orville (Jack) Mollett dated for 3 1/2 years and were united in marriage on December 30, 1950 in Bond County. They enjoyed over 37 years together before his death on January 31, 1988. They are the parents of four children who survive: Mary B. Stewart of Greenville, Marjorie (Glenn) Sanders of Johnston City, IL, Darrell (Nancy) Mollett of north of Greenville, James (Ramona) Mollett of north of Greenville, 7 grandchildren: Kevin (Heather) Stewart, Nathan (Marcy) Mollett, Tyler Mollett, Daniel (Amanda) Sanders, Michelle (Tom) Emmons, Dana (Kayla) LaBerge, Jennifer (Tim) Wolfe, 8 great-grandchildren: Katelyn Stewart, Gavin Stewart, Megan Mollett, Claire Mollett, Lyla Mollett, Bailey Wolfe, Sara Wolfe, and David LaBerge.
Elizabeth is the last of her generation being preceded in death by her parents, her husband Jack, her sister Evelyn B. Smith and brother Clarence Hubbell.
Elizabeth had taught school and attended Greenville College receiving her degree in the spring of 1950. She left her teaching position at the end of the 1950-1951 school year to become a full time mother raising her four children. When her youngest son turned 6 she returned to a 2 room school in rural Fayette County, later Elizabeth and her students moved into Vandalia where she taught first grade for another twenty five years retiring in 1989 after 29 years of teaching.
After Jack's death Elizabeth began taking organ lessons and became the First Baptist Church organist after Orena Gieseke's death. Mrs. Mollett has been the church organist since that time until the present.
Elizabeth is a member of the Reading Link, has volunteered at the Greenville Public Library for many years, a member of the Retired Teachers, Greenville Hospital Auxiliary, and her Church, the Greenville First Christian Church.
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