Elsie Cornick

      Elsie Cornick, 91, of Mt. Pleasant, died at 3:17 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2001, at the Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield.

      The funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 19, at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Mt. Pleasant with Fr. Nick Adam officiating. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Beatty Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant with the rosary recited at 4 p.m. and family visitation from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Burial will be in the St. Alphonsus Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.

      Mrs. Cornick was born Oct. 3, 1909, in Mt. Pleasant, the youngest of nine children born to John William and Mary Alice Manning Shumaker. She married Leo ?Mark? Cornick on Sept. 14, 1935, at the St. Alphonsus parsonage in Mt. Pleasant, who preceded her in death on July 15, 1999. She worked as a switchboard operator at the Mt. Pleasant Telephone Company from 1931 until moving with her husband to his father?s farm in 1937. She returned to the telephone company in 1950 when the couple returned to Mt. Pleasant, and worked there until retiring in 1974. She was a member of the St. Alphonsus Altar and Rosary Society and enjoyed fishing, knitting, crocheting, dancing and spending time with her grandchildren.

      Survivors include three daughters, Ann and Bill Shima of Audubon, Nancy and Frank Bell of Fairfield and Sally and Rodger Bell of Roseburg, Ore.; a son, Michael and Deloris Cornick of Spring Valley, Ark.; a sister, Mary Hoaglin of Sarasota, Fla.; 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by five sisters and two brothers.