This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hF0.2ACIB/604 Message Board Post: Robert E. McElroy, 79, of 38 Albany Park, died early Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1991 at Muscatine General hospital, following a brief illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20 at St. Mathias Catholic Church. Organist will be Vada Timm. Pallbearers will be Al Willroth, Richard Noll, Bernard Noll, Steve Frye, Bill Frye and Gary Lee. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Jens, Douglas Stolley, Rick Crews, Barb Crews and Trisha Jens. Burial will be at St. Mary's Cemetery. A vigil rite will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Riley Funeral Home. Friends may call Thursday afternoon and evening. A memorial has been established. Mr. McElroy was born July 31, 1912, in Muscatine to James and Nora Hill McElroy. He was a life long resident here. He attended the University of Iowa and was a letter winner in track. He married Dorothy Fry Roland on July 8 1957 at Sioux City. He was an active member of the University of Iowa Letterman's Club, a member of the Hawkeye Track Club and a life member of Elks Lodge No. 304 of Muscatine. He was an avid fisherman. He had worked for many years as a salesman for Lagomarcino Groupe Company and C. L. Mull and Son. He retired from Grain Processing Corp. in 1977. Survivors include his wife Dorothy; one son, James McElroy, and one daughter Cynthia Merritt both of Biloxi, Miss,; one stepson, Ron Roland of Springfield, Mo.; two stepdaughters, Judy Otto of Muscatine, and Nancy Stolley of Moline Ill.; 12 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and three sisters, Beatrice McElroy, Glenola McElroy and Grace McElroy, all of Tucson, Ariz. He was preceded in death by one brothers and two sisters. Note he died Dec. 17, 1991 For more info. e-mail me at jiwelsch@machlink.com If you copy my material please give me (June Welsch) credit for it my e-mail address is jiwelsch@machlink.com