Velda Ruth DuVall, 72, R.1, Monticello, died at 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis. She had been ill for nine months and hospitalized for one day.

She was born in Jasper Co. near Lee on Aug. 30, 1914, to Elmer J. and Laura Culp Gilmore. She married Bruce DuVall, June 29, 1941. He survives.

She was a member of the Church of the Brethren in Buffalo, where she was a past Sunday school teacher. She also belonged to the church's Ladies Aid Society and was active in other church affairs.

She lived in Jasper and White counties all of her life, spending 10 years in Guernsey and 30 years in Buffalo. She lived on a farm all of her life.

Surviving with her husband is a step-mother, Ann Gilmore, Monon; two sons, Jack of Buffalo and Marvin of Nashville, Tenn.; two daughters, Mrs Wayne (Janice) Spencer of Boise, Idaho and Mrs Joe (Kay) Martinez of Fort Wayne; five sisters, Mrs Opal Clark of Chalmers, Mrs Maybeth Brandenburg of Rensselaer, Mrs Lola Mae Wise of South Bend; Mrs Elberta Cook and Mrs Maxine Heinzelman, both of Remington, and seven grandchildren.

One grandson, one brother and one sister are deceased. Also deceased is a daughter, Carol Christian and one son, Dean, who was missing in action in Vietnam in 1966.

Services were at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Miller-Voorhis Funeral Home with the Rev George Thomson and the Rev David Crowe officiating. Burial was at Buffalo Cemetery.