Location: M-Harris

Born: May 16, 1911 Delta County, Texas

Died: February 19, 1993 Smith County, Texas

Daughter of Horace C Peterson and Maggie Bell Crowson Peterson

Wife of Charles Edward VanCleave

Parents:
Horace C Peterson (1868 – 1945)
Maggie Bell Crowson Peterson (1881 – 1952)

Spouse:
Charles Edward VanCleave (1906 – 1989)

Children:
Anita Van Cleave Glass (1929 – 2011)
Infant VanCleave (1931 – 1931)
John Horace VanCleave (1934 – 1934)

Elsie Lois VanCleave, 81, of Canton, a former Waco resident, died Friday at a Tyler hospital.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Martin’s Mill Baptist Church, the Rev. Barry Taylor officiating. Graveside services will be 3:30 p.m. at China Spring Cemetery, the Rev. Robert Henderson and the Rev. Mike Ball officiating.

Mrs. VanCleave was born May 16, 1911. She was a native Texas and moved to Waco at an early age. She married Charles Edward VanCleave Sr. on April 1, 1925; he died Dec. 29, 1989. Mrs. VanCleave lived in Canton the past 30 years.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Carter (Anita) Glass of Waco; son, Charles Edward VanCleave, Jr. of Canton; two sisters, Barbara Ray of Waco and Pauline Ehlers of Georgia; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.