ALFRED MCCUTCHEN

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Alfred Herbert McCutchen, Sikeston Route 2, will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Greg Dickerman, a nephew, will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery near East Prairie.

McCutchen, 75, died Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Oct. 20, 1921, in Mississippi County, son of William George and Zettie Ruth Elrod McCutchen. He and Wilma Virginia Brewer were married Oct. 4, 1946. She died Feb. 22, 1992.

McCutchen lived most of his life in Mississippi County. He was a self-employed truck driver. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include three sons, Michael McCutchen of Clinton, Ky., Clyde McCutchen of Manon, Ind., Bud McCutchen of Cape Girardeau; two daughters, Dorothy Thompson of Oran, Margaret McDowell of Cape Girardeau; three brothers, Morris McCutchen of East Prairie, Glenn McCutchen of Jefferson City, Joe McCutchen of Columbia; five sisters, Juanita Nipper of Shawnee, Okla., Freda Payne and Faye Jeffries of Kansas City, Thelma Simmerman of Sylmar, Calif., Virginia Dickerman of Granite City, Ill.; a friend, Pauline Mack of Sikeston; 16 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother.