Elvis R. Bigham

	Elvis R. Bigham of Wilmington, departed this life on November 22, 2000 at 1:30 a.m.
	He was born the son of Elmer and Bertha (Becker) Bigham of Pinckneyville on July 26, 1917.
	 He married Mary Hale in July 1940.  She survives.  Also surviving are two children, Stephen Bigham and wife Denise of St. Eustache, Quebec, Canada and Paula Cooper and husband Bob of Wilmington;  four brothers and two sisters,  Russell and Leroy Bigham and Lois Jenkel, all of Pinckneyville, Glenn and Jerry Bigham, both of Granite City and Carolyn Jewell of Belleville and four grandchildren.
	He was preceded in death by his parents, four sisters, one brother and one infant grandchild.
	Funeral services were held Monday, November 27 with burial in Wilmington.	
