Source: Ancestry Database Evansville Courier (Indiana), Obituaries, 1998-1999 Headline: OBITUARIES Publication Date: February 15, 1999 Source: Evansville Courier & Press Page: Subjects: Region: Obituary: MACEDONIA, Ill. -- Eugene "Gene" Ritchason, 80, died Sunday morning at Good Samaritan Hospital in Mount Vernon. He retired as a maintenance worker at General Tire Co. in Mount Vernon and as a farmer. He was a World War II Navy veteran and a former member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He attended Little Springs Primitative Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife of 57 years, Frances; a son, Kenneth of Radom; two sisters, Mary Hungate of McLeansboro and Clara Sefried of Dahlgren; a brother, William Oscar of Pekin; two grandchildren, Paul A. and James E. Ritchason; five stepgrandchildren, Shawn, Kami and Jordan Chesnek, and Daniel and Crystal Dover; and a great-grandchild. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Gholson Funeral Home McLeansboro Chapel, with burial in Antioch Cemetery in Macedonia. Friends may call from 11 a.m. to service time Tuesday at the funeral home. Woodrow Shain ============================================== SHARE'D Got Any Dover You Haven't Posted, Please Do Researching: Kirksey, Dover, Shrader, Tyner,McNabb romanek@cybertrails.com Sept 30-May 10 romanek@salisbury.net June 1-Sept 30 sromanek@hotmail.com Year Round BACK UP ONLY