Wilma M. Fiscus, 86, St. Peter

Wilma M. Fiscus, 86, of St. Peter and formerly of Vernon, died on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at Fayette County Hospital in Vandalia.

Services were held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Day Funeral Home in Patoka, with Pastor Brien Deverick officiating. Burial was in Ebenezer Cemetery in rural Patoka.

Mrs. Fiscus was born on Aug. 20, 1922, in Vandalia, the daughter of William and Beulah Hall Cates. She married Charles H. Fiscus on Jan. 27, 1938, in St. Louis, Mo.; he died on April 16, 1987.

She lived in the Patoka and Vernon area all of her life. She was a homemaker and loved spending time with her family.

She is survived by daughters, Connie and her husband Jim Wodtka of St. Peter, and Eleanor and her husband Russell Deverick of Decatur; grandchildren, Brien S. Deverick and his wife Karen of Des Moines, Iowa, Kirk D. Deverick and his wife Julie of Conover, N.C., Cory Hassell and his wife Kim of Patoka, Sarah and her husband Darrell Krebs of Carlyle, and Vickie and her husband Herbert Green of Vernon; and great-grandchildren, Rachel Deverick, Rebekah Deverick, Brien Deverick II, Scott Deverick, Andrew Deverick, Alex Deverick, Nichole Hassell, Wyatt Hassell, Matt Gillette and his wife Brandy, Colton Krebs and Jaci Krebs.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; daughter; Wilma Cooper; and great-granddaughter, Chresta Erlinger.