I am the resurrection,
and the life:
he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, 
yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth
and believeth in me
shall never die.
Believeth thou this? 

John 11:25, 26

      Hazel Dean Ehrlich, 90, of Mexico, died at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003, at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico.

      Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003, at 1 p.m. at Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev. Todd Walker officiating. Visitation will be on Thursday from noon until the time of the service at the funeral home. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park.

Pallbearers will be Brian Schoneboom, Ted Schoneboom, Paul Dubbert, William Ehrlich, Howard Shoemyer and William Shoemyer.

Mrs. Ehrlich was born on Feb. 12, 1912, in Bakersfield, Calif., the daughter of John Calvin and Elizabeth Arvilla Allen Wassell Bottomly. Mrs. Ehrlich had been employed by the International Shoe Company until she retired on Oct. 9, 1946. On Oct. 9, 1946, in Pittsfield, Ill., she married Lee Taft Ehrlich, who died on April 3, 1996.

Survivors include several nieces and nephews, including one great niece, Mrs. Rayola Miller, Fowler, Ill.

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