Mrs. Cora Sheffield, 72, died early Thursday morning in an Ogallala hospital.

Born March 20, 1889 in Clay Pool, Ind., to Richard and Nancy Brown. She grew to young womanhood in Frontier county, Nebraska and in 1908 was married to Oliver Sheffield in Stockville. The couple made their home on a farm near Farnam where they continued to live until Mr. Sheffield’s death in 1939.

She was a life-long member of the Seventh Day Church of God.

Survivors include her three daughters, Mrs. Dale (Ruth) Russell of Ogallala; Mrs. Albert (Alice) Sollers of Gothenburg; and Mrs. Clifford (Pearl) Nickerson of Lexington; a son, Wilbur (Helen), Farnam; ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

She will lie in state at the Bracken Memorial Chapel in Ogallala until Saturday morning when she will be taken to Gothenburg to lie in state at the McVay-Olesen Funeral Home until Sunday noon. Sunday noon she will be taken to the Methodist Church at Farnam for services at 2 p.m. and interment.

Bracken Mortuary in Ogallala is in charge.

Personal collection of a family member.