Donald C. Petty, 69, Route 3, died early Sunday at St. Luke's Hospital, Davenport following a brief illness.
Services are 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Riley Funeral Home. The Rev. Manzel Berlin will officiate. Vada Timm will be organist. Pallbearers will be Art Eppley, Dave Honts, Larry Honts, Billy Hopkins, Kenny Mathes and Doug, Randy and Tim McDonald. Burial will be at the Nichols Cemetery, Nichols.
Visitation is Tuesday afternoon and evening at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Mr. Petty was born March 22, 1920 in Farmington, Ill., a son of Joseph and Blanche Proctor Petty.
Formerly of Farmington, he had lived in the area for 30 years. He married Betty Newton on Sept. 2, 1967 at Hannibal, Mo.
He was a member of the Isaac Walton League and the Davenport Local 387 Steamfitters Union. He worked as a pipefittter and welder on construction.
Survivors include his wife, Betty; three sons, Randall of Muscatine; Gerald of Canton, Ill.' and Dennis of Springfield; a daughter, Sandra Kemper of Muscatine; nine grandchildren; and two sisters, Bessie Colvin of Oxnard, Calif.; and Ann Addis of Brinfield, Ill.
He is preceded in death by his parents and one brother.
Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of June 18, 1989
Obituary contributed by Linda Forbes
Services are 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Riley Funeral Home. The Rev. Manzel Berlin will officiate. Vada Timm will be organist. Pallbearers will be Art Eppley, Dave Honts, Larry Honts, Billy Hopkins, Kenny Mathes and Doug, Randy and Tim McDonald. Burial will be at the Nichols Cemetery, Nichols.
Visitation is Tuesday afternoon and evening at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Mr. Petty was born March 22, 1920 in Farmington, Ill., a son of Joseph and Blanche Proctor Petty.
Formerly of Farmington, he had lived in the area for 30 years. He married Betty Newton on Sept. 2, 1967 at Hannibal, Mo.
He was a member of the Isaac Walton League and the Davenport Local 387 Steamfitters Union. He worked as a pipefittter and welder on construction.
Survivors include his wife, Betty; three sons, Randall of Muscatine; Gerald of Canton, Ill.' and Dennis of Springfield; a daughter, Sandra Kemper of Muscatine; nine grandchildren; and two sisters, Bessie Colvin of Oxnard, Calif.; and Ann Addis of Brinfield, Ill.
He is preceded in death by his parents and one brother.
Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of June 18, 1989
Obituary contributed by Linda Forbes
Donald C. Petty, 69, Route 3, died early Sunday at St. Luke's Hospital, Davenport following a brief illness.
Services are 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Riley Funeral Home. The Rev. Manzel Berlin will officiate. Vada Timm will be organist. Pallbearers will be Art Eppley, Dave Honts, Larry Honts, Billy Hopkins, Kenny Mathes and Doug, Randy and Tim McDonald. Burial will be at the Nichols Cemetery, Nichols.
Visitation is Tuesday afternoon and evening at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Mr. Petty was born March 22, 1920 in Farmington, Ill., a son of Joseph and Blanche Proctor Petty.
Formerly of Farmington, he had lived in the area for 30 years. He married Betty Newton on Sept. 2, 1967 at Hannibal, Mo.
He was a member of the Isaac Walton League and the Davenport Local 387 Steamfitters Union. He worked as a pipefittter and welder on construction.
Survivors include his wife, Betty; three sons, Randall of Muscatine; Gerald of Canton, Ill.' and Dennis of Springfield; a daughter, Sandra Kemper of Muscatine; nine grandchildren; and two sisters, Bessie Colvin of Oxnard, Calif.; and Ann Addis of Brinfield, Ill.
He is preceded in death by his parents and one brother.
Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of June 18, 1989
Obituary contributed by Linda Forbes
Services are 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Riley Funeral Home. The Rev. Manzel Berlin will officiate. Vada Timm will be organist. Pallbearers will be Art Eppley, Dave Honts, Larry Honts, Billy Hopkins, Kenny Mathes and Doug, Randy and Tim McDonald. Burial will be at the Nichols Cemetery, Nichols.
Visitation is Tuesday afternoon and evening at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Mr. Petty was born March 22, 1920 in Farmington, Ill., a son of Joseph and Blanche Proctor Petty.
Formerly of Farmington, he had lived in the area for 30 years. He married Betty Newton on Sept. 2, 1967 at Hannibal, Mo.
He was a member of the Isaac Walton League and the Davenport Local 387 Steamfitters Union. He worked as a pipefittter and welder on construction.
Survivors include his wife, Betty; three sons, Randall of Muscatine; Gerald of Canton, Ill.' and Dennis of Springfield; a daughter, Sandra Kemper of Muscatine; nine grandchildren; and two sisters, Bessie Colvin of Oxnard, Calif.; and Ann Addis of Brinfield, Ill.
He is preceded in death by his parents and one brother.
Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of June 18, 1989
Obituary contributed by Linda Forbes
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