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Paper: Peoria Journal Star, The (IL)
Deceased: GALENA SCOGGINS
Date: November 30, 1996

PEORIA -- Galena E. Scoggins, 84, of 6701 W. Plank Road died at 12:42 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 28, 1996, at Methodist Medical Center.

Born Aug. 24, 1912, in Monarch, W.Va., to Benjamin F. and Emma Kissinger Ratcliff, she married George E. Scoggins on May 8, 1940, in Charlottesville, Va. He died Feb. 1, 1975, in Peoria. One daughter, Anita Scoggins, and four brothers also preceded her in death.

Surviving are one daughter, Emma Jean Tavana of Washington; one sister, Gertrude Coleman of Huntington, W.Va.; three grandchildren.

She worked at Caterpillar Inc. for many years, retiring in 1978 as head secretary of the accounting department.

She was a member of Peoria Christian Women's Club and the Caterpillar Girls Club. She attended Grace Presbyterian Church.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home, where visitation will be one hour earlier. Entombment will be in American Mausoleum.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Central Illinois Chapter. @ART CAPTION: Galena Scoggins

Section: OBITUARIES
Page: D12

Copyright (c) 1996 The Peoria Journal Star, Inc.

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