James Arnold Tucker (2000)

TUCKER, GIVAN, SILBER, ALBI, NETHERLY

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 8/28/2006 at 20:37:36

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 22, 2000

JAMES A. TUCKER, Ohio

James Arnold Tucker, 74, of Monroe, Ohio, died March 15, 2000, at his home.

Funeral services were held Monday, March 20, at Breitbach-McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home in Middletown, Ohio. Burial was a Woodside Cemetery.

James Tucker was born Nov. 1, 1925, to Charles Ellsworth Sr. and Catherine Dell (Givan) Tucker of Winterset. A 1943 graduate of Winterset High School, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy and was an aviation cadet when World War II ended. Following the war, he received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Duke University in 1948. James worked as a project engineer for Manchester Machine Company/Voith Sulzer Paper Technology for 28 years before retiring in 1991. He had resided in the Monroe area since 1963 and was a member of the Bethany United Methodist Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister and a stepson.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy (Netherly) Tucker, a son, Gary Tucker (wife Melissa) of Liberty Township, Ohio; a daughter, Karen Silber (husband Brad) of Cincinnati, Ohio; two stepsons, James Albi (wife Sue) of Middletown, Ohio, and Lonnie Albi (wife Cheryl) of Rochester, N.Y.; a brother, Charles Tucker, Jr. (wife Sue) of Winterset; and four grandchildren.