MABEL BARTLETT

Mabel Lane Bartlett, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Dec. 11, 1997, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center.

She was born June 18, 1907, in Alexander County, Ill., daughter of Charles and Beatrice Jones Sickman. She and William Frank Bartlett were married in 1954. He died July 31, 1990.

Bartlett was a graduate of Cairo High School. She received teaching degrees from Florida Southern College, Southern Illinois University, University of Illinois, and a doctorate in education from Washington University in St. Louis in 1950.

She retired as associate professor of education at SIU-Carbondale. Her husband was senior editor in the graphics department at the university. They were members of the SIU-USOM Education Projects and traveled extensively in Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, and Japan. They lived and worked in Saigon, South Vietnam, from 1961-63.

Bartlett had lived at Chateau Girardeau since 1979. She was a member of First Christian Church and PEO Sisterhood.

Survivors include two sons, Jack Lane of Santa Maria, Calif., Amos Lane of Bartlett, Tenn.; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

There is no visitation or service. Her body was donated to Washington University School of Medicine.

McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau was in charge of arrangements.