Muriel Electra Dillman, longtime Cushing resident, died Monday, February 19, 1990, in the Yale Nursing Home. She was 88.

The daughter of Jack and Anne Henry Callery, she was born May 21, 1901, in Oktaha, Oklahoma.

While she was a young child, the family moved to the Agra vicinity and she attended schools in that area.

On December 12, 1919, she and Millard Dillman were married in Chandler and moved to LeGrand, Iowa, to establish their first home. They moved to Cushing in 1949.

Her husband died February 14, 1962.

Mrs. Dillman was a former beauty operator and had also managed nursing homes, both in Stillwater and Cushing. She moved to the Yale nursing home in 1983.

In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by two infant sons, Eldon and Robert, and a granddaughter, Marsha Downs, who died in Iowa recently.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Clifford {Eleanor} Downs of Montour, Iowa, and Mrs. Jewel {Lavonda} Chadwick, of Indianola, Iowa.

There are also 8 grandchildren and 11 great-great grandchildren surviving.

Her graveside funeral will be at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday in the Osage Cemetery, southwest of Agra.

Palmer-Hackler Funeral Home of Cushing is in charge of the arrangements.