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Jack Benton Billingsley

Birth
Lockport, Will County, Illinois, USA
Death
Aug 1978 (aged 53)
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Cisne, Wayne County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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A 53-year-old Albion man, Jack Billingsley, died in Fairfield Memorial Hospital Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

A quality control engineer at Champion Laboratory in Albion. Mr. Billingsley was found in his car in front of the home.

Mr. Billingsley was born in Lockport, IL January 1, 1925, the son of Maurice and Ethel (King) Billingsley. On June 3, 1946, he married Vera Lee Powell, who survives.

He was a captain in the Air Force during World War II and was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the White Shrine, the American Legion, the Elks and Moose Lodges and was an Albion volunteer fireman.

Surviving are his widow, a son, David; and his mother, Mrs. Ethel Billingsley.

Services were conducted at Nales Funeral Home in Albion with burial in the Cisne Cemetery.

Masonic rites were also conducted.

(Obituary courtesy of Bette Wheat)
A 53-year-old Albion man, Jack Billingsley, died in Fairfield Memorial Hospital Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

A quality control engineer at Champion Laboratory in Albion. Mr. Billingsley was found in his car in front of the home.

Mr. Billingsley was born in Lockport, IL January 1, 1925, the son of Maurice and Ethel (King) Billingsley. On June 3, 1946, he married Vera Lee Powell, who survives.

He was a captain in the Air Force during World War II and was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the White Shrine, the American Legion, the Elks and Moose Lodges and was an Albion volunteer fireman.

Surviving are his widow, a son, David; and his mother, Mrs. Ethel Billingsley.

Services were conducted at Nales Funeral Home in Albion with burial in the Cisne Cemetery.

Masonic rites were also conducted.

(Obituary courtesy of Bette Wheat)


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