Ralph Bernard Tillea 1925-1990

TILLEA, TILEA, MORRISEY, MORRISSEY

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 6/22/2013 at 16:16:49

Ralph Tilea [Tillea]
Estherville – Services for Ralph B. Tillea, 64, will be here Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church with Father Thomas Topf officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery with full military services. He died Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1990 at V.A. Hospital in Minneapolis.

Friends may call at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville from 4-9 p.m. Monday, Legion of Mary at 4 p.m. Monday. Legion of Mary at 4 p.m. and a Vigil for the Deceased will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

He was born May 22, 1925 at Estherville, the son of Roscoe and Julia (Morrisey) Tillea and was a graduate of Estherville High School and attended Creighton University in Omaha. He lived all his life in Estherville where he was employed by Golden Sun Feeds. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War II. He was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.

Survivors include one brother Lawrence Tillea, Clarkston, Wash.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, February 24, 1990)