Funeral services for Leroy Terry, a native of Jamesport, were held June 12 at Meierhoffer Family Funeral Care, St. Joseph. Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Joseph. Memorials may be made to the Hands of Hope Hospice in St. Joseph.
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Mr. Terry was born in Jamesport. He had spent most of his life in St. Joseph.
Leroy C. Terry, 70, St. Joseph, died June 9, 1999, at a hospice in St. Joseph following a lengthy illness.
During the Korean War, he served in the Navy.
Mr. Terry had been employed by Wonder Bread in St. Joseph for 32 years and retired in 1987 as a branch manager. After his retirement, he worked for the Dugan-Lowe Oil Co. of St. Joseph for over 10 years.
Mr. Terry was a member of Wyatt Park Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon; Brotherhood Lodge No. 269, AF & AM; York Rite Bodies; Moila Shrine Temple; Radiant Chapter No. 88, Order of Eastern Star, of which he was a past patron; Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem; and Pony Express American Legion Post No. 359, all of St. Joseph.
In 1949, he married Joy Walker in St. Joseph. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Deborah Heitman and Cheryl Murphy, both of St. Joseph; three sisters, Gertrude Cook and Mary Ellen Maples, both of Cowgill, and Lucille Dickinson, Gallatin; and six grandchildren.