Palestine High School Alumni Association

Maybell Elizabeth Wilkie Broughton

Maybell Elizabeth Wilkie Broughton

04 / 17 / 1890  –  04 / 23 / 1980

Funeral services for Mrs. Maybell Elizabeth Wilkie Broughton, 90, of Palestine, will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Bailey Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with the Rev. W.S. Blanton and Dan Manuel officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Springs Cemetery.

Mrs. Broughton died Wednesday in Anderson County Memorial Hospital.  She was born April 17, 1890 in Leadville, Colorado.

She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, XYZ Club, Pleasant Springs Home Demonstration Club and the Elkhart Quilting Club. She was the first president of the Golden Age Club. She had been a teacher in the Pleasant Springs and Elmwood Schools.

Mrs. Broughton was preceded in death by her husband Oscar O. Broughton Sr. and a son, Guy Broughton.

Survivors include two sons, Oscar Broughton of Houston and Ted Broughton of Palestine; two daughters, Mrs. Rubye Trigg of Palestine and Mrs. Helen Wilkinson of Bloomington, Ill.; one sister, Mrs. Lois Snyder of Grass Valley, Calif.; 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to Pleasant Springs Cemetery Fund.

Condolence calls will be received at the Trigg residence, or the Ted Broughton residence on South Sycamore Road.