This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DUKE DERBY HARPER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VKB.2ACE/1110 Message Board Post: Maries County (MO) Gazette, 27 Sep 1995 WILLIAM DUKE William Thomas Duke, 86, of Dixon, was born February 17, 1909, in Gallatin County, Ill., a son of Calvin Thomas and Leona Brookau Derby Duke, and departed this life at 4:40 a.m., Tuesday morning, Sept. 19, 1995, in the Life Care Nursing Center, Waynesville, after being in failing health for a number of years. Mr. Duke was preceded in death by his parents. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Duke had been employed as a crane operator for the United States Corps of Engineers. He was a Merchant Marine Veteran and had moved to the Dixon area in 1975. Those left to mourn his passing include: one daughter, Rosella Duke, Oklahoma. Funeral services were conducted the following Friday afternoon, in the Dixon Chapel of the Birmingham-Martin Funeral Homes with the Rev. Tommy Harper, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dixon, officiating. Two hymns were sung for the service. Interment was in the Kenner Cemetery, near Dixon under the direction of the Dixon Chapel of the Birmingham-Martin Funeral Homes. Friends of Mr. Duke served as pallbearers.