Obituary: Martha Jean Douglass

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Martha Jean Douglass, 83, of Elizabethtown, passed away at 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, at Hardin County Hospital in Rosiclare.

She was born on June 29, 1928, in Mt. Vernon, Ind., the daughter of Merle and Ruby Pearl (Gentry) Reinhardt. Martha Jean married Isaac Douglass in 1953 and he preceded her in death on May 9, 1994.

She was owner and operator of Jean's Kitchen and the Dairy Dream in Shawneetown.

Martha Jean is survived by three daughters, Angela and Jamie Hollow of Elizabethtown, Carol and Rodger Grace of Shawneetown and Trudy and Tom Johnson of Mt. Vernon, Ind.; two sons, Robert and Dellann Kee of Buffalo Grove and Mike and Peggy Kee of Wheeling; 13 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; her sister, Violet M. Koerber; and her brother, Billie Jack Smith.

Visitation for Martha Jean will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, at the Vickery Funeral Chapel in Shawneetown. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, with the Rev. Robert Turner officiating. Burial will be at Hogan Cemetery near Shawneetown. Internet condolences be made at the website, www.vickeryfuneralchapel.com.