By Staff
Mary Ellen Lansdale, 70, of Westfield Drive, Niles, died at 7:20 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at Silverbrook Manor, Niles, following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, April 18, at Wesley United Methodist Church, Niles, with the Rev. Emmett H. Kadwell, Jr., of the church, officiating.
Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.
Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, at Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles, where the Order of the Eastern Star will remember her at 7:30 p.m.
She was born on Jan. 3, 1938, in Niles, to Henry Phillip Heinien and Edna Pearl Biederman.
She was a life long resident of Niles and graduated from Niles High School in 1955.
She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, Niles, Order of the Easter Star Niles Chapter No. 332. She enjoyed knitting, crochet and cooking.
Lansdale learned to use the Internet and enjoyed it.
On June 7, 1958, in Niles, she married Billy C. Lansdale, who died Dec. 18, 2003.
Surviving family includes a daughter, Kimberly Ellen Lansdale of Niles; a granddaughter, Morgan Elizabeth Severeid and a brother, Fred E. Hill of Niles.
Memorials may be made to Wesley United Methodist Church, Niles.
Arrangements were by Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles.