This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reilly, McAnally, Myers, Purcell, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TMB.2ACI/3351 Message Board Post: S.E. Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Mo. June 2001 JOSEPH REILLY Glen Allen, Mo. -- Funeral for Joseph Anthony Reilly of Glen Allen will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. John's Catholic Church in Leopold, Mo. The Rev. Bill Huggins will officiate. Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery. Reilly, 94, died Monday, June 18, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 20, 1906, in Paragould, Ark., son of Joseph William and Maud McAnally Reilly. He and Blanche M. Myers were married Feb. 24, 1933, at Leopold. Reilly was a 1925 graducate of Lutesville High School and attended Will Mayfield College. He had been a teacher at Cane Creek, Club Creek, and Opossum Creek schools. He was a surveyor apprentice with his father eight years and then became a registered surveyor. He was a substitute rural mail carrier from 1941 to 1974. He was an elected county official and served as Bollinger County surveyor from 1952 to 1976. Reilly was a member of St. John's Catholic Church, helped organize Farm Bureau Service Co. in 1947, was secretary of Farm Bureau's first board of directors and was a member of Lutesville School Board during the 1950s. Survivors include his wife; a son, John Reilly of Marble Hill, Mo.; a daughter, Margaret Purcell of Jefferson City, Mo.; a sister, Mary Reilly of Marble Hiil; four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; and 14 great-step-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister and a brother. CARD OF THANKS The Family of JOSEPH A. REILLY wish to express sincere thanks to the following: the staff of St. Francis Medical Center for their execllant and compassionate care during Joe's last illness; Hutchings' Funeral Chapel for their professional and personal services; Father Bill Huggins for his consoling words; St. John's Church choir and organist Mary Jansen, for their beautiful music; Jennifer Brotheron for "The Irish Blessing"; Bob Clubb for Above the Hills of Time; a traditional Irish hymn; the pallbearers--Gerald Landewee, David Landewee, George Buckler, Ben Burford, Justin Fox and Gary Lutes; family and friends who came to pay their last respects; Sister Mary Jane for leading the Rosary; Agnes Broshuis for her kind assistance; Stan and Roseann Thiele and their helpers for preparing a delicious meal for the family and their guests at the K.C. Hall. May God's blessing be with you always. Blanche, Jane, John and families.