OAK RIDGE -- Funeral service for Charles H. Daume Jr. of Oak Ridge will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Revs. Bill Ellis and Rodney Travis will officiate, with burial in St. James Cemetery at Tilsit.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Sunday. A Masonic service will be held at 7:30.
Daume, 76, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1994, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis.
He was born March 23, 1918, at Tilsit, son of Charles H. and Ida Valle Daume Sr. He and Marie E. Lowes were married April 13, 1941. She died April 3, 1989. He then married Juanita Mays March 17, 1990.
Daume farmed in the Oak Ridge area all his life. He was a member of First Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge 441 at Jackson, Order of Eastern Star at Oak Ridge, and was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite. He was a former member of Oak Ridge School Board, and past district deputy grand master of the Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Richard Daume of Cape Girardeau, Vernon Daume of Oak Ridge; three daughters, Judy Myers and Joyce Bock of Oak Ridge, Jean Puchbauer of Jackson; a stepson, Larry Mays of Hartville; two stepdaughters, Claudia Williams of Cape Girardeau, Lisa Brown of Jackson; two brothers, Edward Daume of Perryville, Melbert Daume of Cape Girardeau; five sisters, Marie Haupt and Margaret Puchbauer of Jackson, Allegra Wendel of Oak Ridge, Ruth Meier of Perryville, Ethel Hall of House Springs; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; eight stepgrandchildren, and nine great-stepgrandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a granddaughter.
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