CHARLES KNOTE

Memorial service for Charles E. Knote of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Brendan Dempsey will officiate. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.

Knote, 76, died Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Feb, 6, 1921, in Greenfield, Ind., son of Charles Ellsworth and Eva Leisure Knote. He and Ruth Alice Rueseler were married Oct. 7, 1950, in Cape Girardeau.

Knote received a degree in agricultural economics from Purdue University, and also studied entomology. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. McKean during World War II.

After the service he worked at Hudson Manufacturing Co. in Chicago and then at Sentinel Laboratories in Springfield, Ill., as a pest-control formulator. While at Sentinel he studied rodent biology at the Center for Disease Control.

Knote moved to Cape Girardeau in 1948 and worked in the pest control business for the late J.C. Logan. Six months later he bought the company, which is now Cape-Kil.

In 1950 he established a pesticide formulating plant, Kem-Pest Laboratories, where he manufactured 153 chemical products. He closed the plant in 1979.

From 1973-76 he was educational chairman for Missouri Structural Pest Control Certificate Training.

Knote was an active civic and community leader. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, and had served as a deacon and elder. He was a member of Tyrian Lodge 551 AF&AM in Springfield, Ill., and was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason.

He had been active in Community Concerts Association, was a former president, and received the Golden Lyre Award in 1979. When Chateau Girardeau was formed he served as first vice president of its first board.

He had been involved with the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee. He also worked with the chamber's annual barbecue contest. He and his wife judged various barbecue contests, and were certified judges for the nation's largest contest, the American Royal in Kansas City.

The Knotes also wrote a book "Barbecuing and Sausage Making Secrets," which went into print five years ago.

Knote received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Ark., and received a doctorate of barbecue philosophy from the Greasehouse University.

Survivors include his wife; four daughters, Barbara Head of Denver, Colo., Nancy Evenden of Pasadena, Calif., Elizabeth Knote of Cape Girardeau, Patricia Knote of Indianapolis, Ind.; a son, Richard Knote of Knoxville, Tenn.; a brother, Harold Knote of Dunkirk, Ind.; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by a brother.