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Ralph Alonzo Richards

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Ralph Alonzo Richards Veteran

Birth
Elmwood, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
Death
28 Feb 1985 (aged 80)
Fort Lyon, Bent County, Colorado, USA
Burial
Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Son of Mary Rodway and A. L. Richards

RALPH A. RICHARDS

Service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Spring Hill
Cemetery Chapel in Danville for Ralph A. Richards, 80, of Zephyr Hills, Fla.

He died Thursday (Feb. 28, 1985) at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fort Lyons, Colo. after having been a patient about two months.

Richards was visiting a niece in Fort Lyons when he became ill and was hospitalized.

Chaplain Jack Frost will officiate. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery in Danville, with military rites by Curtis G. Redden American Legion Post 210 of Danville. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Monday at Barrick & Son
Funeral Home in Danville, with Masonic services there at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

Richards attended the Presbyterian Church in Florida. He was a member of Metropolitan Craft Masonic Lodge 519 in Southfield, Mich. A World War II Navy veteran, he was a past commander of American Legion Post in Zephyr Hills and
National Chaplain of Navy Seabees Veterans Organization.

Born Oct. 26, 1904, in Elmwood, Ill., he was the son of Alonzo and Mary Rodway Richards. He married Bess Cook of Danville, who preceded him in death in September 1957.

Survivors include several nieces and nephews, insluding Gloria McMasters of Fort Lyons and Mrs. Floy (Ada) White of Danville.

He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.
Son of Mary Rodway and A. L. Richards

RALPH A. RICHARDS

Service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Spring Hill
Cemetery Chapel in Danville for Ralph A. Richards, 80, of Zephyr Hills, Fla.

He died Thursday (Feb. 28, 1985) at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fort Lyons, Colo. after having been a patient about two months.

Richards was visiting a niece in Fort Lyons when he became ill and was hospitalized.

Chaplain Jack Frost will officiate. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery in Danville, with military rites by Curtis G. Redden American Legion Post 210 of Danville. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Monday at Barrick & Son
Funeral Home in Danville, with Masonic services there at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

Richards attended the Presbyterian Church in Florida. He was a member of Metropolitan Craft Masonic Lodge 519 in Southfield, Mich. A World War II Navy veteran, he was a past commander of American Legion Post in Zephyr Hills and
National Chaplain of Navy Seabees Veterans Organization.

Born Oct. 26, 1904, in Elmwood, Ill., he was the son of Alonzo and Mary Rodway Richards. He married Bess Cook of Danville, who preceded him in death in September 1957.

Survivors include several nieces and nephews, insluding Gloria McMasters of Fort Lyons and Mrs. Floy (Ada) White of Danville.

He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.


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