Submitted by Melva L Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
July 20, 1987 - Monday, pg 2
IVAN O. TRACY
Tampico: - Ivan O. Tracy, 76, of 207 N. Benton in Tampico, formerly of the New Bedford area, died Saturday morning at Community General Hospital in Sterling.
Funeral services were today at 1:30 p.m. in the Howard Johnson Funeral Home in Manlius with Rev. Denver D. Hutton officiating. Burial was in the Evergreen Memory Gardens in Kewanee. There was no visitation. A memorial has been established to Cancer Research or the Manlius Rescue Unit.
Mr. Tracy was born on June 6, 1911 in Stark County, the son of William T. and Ida Osborne Tracy. On Jan. 31, 1934 he was united in marriage to Elsie Loudenburg of Wyoming, Ill. He was retired from farming in the New Bedford area. The deceased was a member of the First Baptist Church of Kewanee, the Yorktown Masonic Lodge 555 AF & AM, the Peoria Shrine and the Mohamad Temple in Moline.
Survivors include his wife, two sons, Wendall of Walnut and Donald of Tampico, one daughter, Mrs. Orville (Edna) Eaton of Wyoming, 17 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren, one brother, Dean Tracy of Wyoming, and three sisters, Mrs. Vulow (Jessie) Peterson of Kewanee, Mrs. Wilbur (Opal) Marth of Kewanee, and Mrs, Dan (Glenda) Hegwood of Morrison.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, one brother and one great grandson.
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