AVERY, Merle 1910-1984

AVERY, COOP, ANDERSON, SARZALA, GERLING, CARROLL, POOL, MORROW, DICKINSON, ORMES

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Date: 5/30/2013 at 08:13:04

The Fairfield Ledger
Monday, February 27, 1984

AVERY services to be Tuesday

Services for Merle AVERY, 74, will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Behner Funeral Home with the Rev. David Kennedy officiating. Burial will be in Antioch Cemetery northeast of Fairfield.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. this evening at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Antioch Church.

AVERY died Friday morning at the Community Memorial Hospital in LeGrange, Ill. after he had been in failing health the past two years.

He had been spending part of his time with his daughter in Westchester, Ill., and at his home in Fairfield at 1100 S. Eighth.

Merle AVERY was born Jan. 15, 1910, in Fairfield. He was the son of Bert and Sadie COOP AVERY. His marriage to Lorene A. ANDERSON took place May 7, 1930, in Macon, Mo. She died Nov. 22, 1974.

AVERY worked as an administrator in the Farm Bureau-U.S. Government office in St. Paul, Minn., for 35 years prior to his retirement.

He is survived by two daughters and a son: Shirley J. SARZALA, Westchester, Ill., and Susan Kay GERLING, Denver, Colo.; and Billie K. AVERY, Rogers, Ark.; also six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

He is also survived by three brothers and five sisters: Silbert, Citrus Heights, Calif.; Gerald, Wichenberg, Calif.; Homer, Milton; Edna CARROLL, Princeville, Ill.; Helen POOL, Douds; Cecile MORROW, Fairfield; Fern DICKINSON, Mount Pleasant; and Margaret ORMES, Sun City, Ariz.

(Transcribed for genealogical purposes only. I am of no relation.)