Obituary of Roland Pierce

Last Updated 9/1/00

Clipping from an unidentified newspaper (probably the Bureau County (IL) Republican):

ROLAND L. PIERCE

WYANET - Roland L. Pierce, 70, of Bureau Township, died Wednesday at 11:15 p.m. at the Ryburn Hospital, Ottawa. He had been a patient there for the past six weeks.
    Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Sutley-Wilkey Funeral Home with the Rev. Stanley Innegar officiating. Interment will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
    Friends may call at the funeral home Friday 6 to 9 p.m.
    Memorials may be directed to the Bureau Township Community Church.
    Mr. Pierce was the son of Luther and Elizabeth Vaughn Pierce and was born in Bureau Township, Sept. 7, 1898. He was married to Lovie Mae Thompson at Hennepin on April 4, 1919.
    Surviving are the wife; a son, Donald of Peoria; two daughters, Mrs. Eugene (Dorothy) Braasch of Davis, Il., and Mrs. James (Idella) Lockridge of Seneca; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and two grandchildren.
    He was a member of teh Bureau Township Community Church and had operated the Pierce Game Farm north of Wyanet.

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