SIKESTON Funeral service for Claude Wilbur Dirickson of Hunter Acres Caring Center here will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Don Russell will officite, with burial in Old Morley Cemetery at Morley.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.
Dirickson, 82 years old, died Friday, Dec. 28, 1990, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.
He was born Aug. 7, 1908, at Blodgett, son of Clifford and Gertie Dirickson. He was a retired farmer, and attended Silent Hill Baptist Church.
Survivors include a son, Gene Dirickson of Sikeston Route 2; two daughters, Claudette Learue of Goodlettsville, Tenn., Betty Burns of Advance; two brothers, Clyde and Alfred Dirickson of Modesto, Calif.; 25 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sons, four brothers and three grandchildren.
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