Eloise Price Hebble

Services for Eloise Price Hebble will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Shields Funeral Home, Forest, by the Rev. Rex Roth. Burial will be in Hueston Cemetery, near Forest. Friends may call 4-8 p.m. Wednesday. She died at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004, at the Kenton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born Nov. 16, 1908, in Forest, to Attorney William Bradley and Gwendolen (Cessna) Price. On Aug., 16, 1938, she married Harry Hamel, who died on June 1, 1965. She married Charles M. Hebble on May 10, 1969, and he preceded her in death on Dec. 5, 1998. Surviving are a stepson, Charles M. (Polly) Hebble of Cape Haze, Fla.; a stepdaughter, Joan Haydock of Cincinnati; two nephews, Attorney Russell (Margaret) Price of Fremont, Mich. and Attorney William (Marion) Price of Centville, Md.; a niece, Patricia Price Roth of East Lansing, Mich.; seven step-grandchildren; 16 step-great grandchildren; two great nephews, three great nieces, three great-great nephews and a great-great niece and a good friend, Danielle (Brad) Pickford of Alger. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Attorney Russell Price, Attorney Harry Price and Bradley Price and two great nieces and a nephew. She was a 1926 graduate of Forest High School and a 1930 graduate of the Western College for Women in Oxford. She was a retired music and language educator and operated Hamel Insurance Agency for a number of years in Forest. She was crowned Miss Hardin County in 1933 at the county’s centennial. She was later honored for that title in 1983 and 2003. She was a member of the Forest Presbyterian Church and a co-founder of the Forest-Jackson Public Library in 1937. She served as a member of the Forest Jackson Library Building Fund Committee. She taught school in Salem Centralized, Everett Junior High, Alexandria Public and the Forest-Jackson Public Schools. She was the Forest Com-mittee Chairman for the Hardin County 150th celebration in 1983 and a member of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority of Forest. She was a member of the former Hardin County University Women’s Club No. 1 and had performed in the Gilbert-Sullivan Opera in Brooklyn, New York. She was a member of the Ohio and Hardin County Retired Teachers Association. Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Forest or the Forest-Jackson Library.

Eloise Price Hebble

February 27, 2007