CURTIS O. JAMES

Funeral service for Curtis O. James, 410 Mt. Auburn, will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Jerry Culbertson and Guy Roberson will officiate, with burial in Mounds Park Cemetery at Lilbourn.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. Sunday.

James, 80, died Thursday, Feb. 23, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Oct. 23, 1914, at Kennett, son of Jacob and Ella Davis James Sr. He and Violet Lloyd were married in 1935. She died in November 1984.

James moved to Cape Girardeau in 1969 from Morris, Ill.

He worked at Moorman Manufacturing Co. 23 years, and then at J.W. Reynolds Monument Co. nine years. As a young man he had owned a trucking firm, coal company, and owned and operated a farm near Marble Hill. He was a member of the Church of Christ in Jackson, where he had been a greeter and visitation leader. James served with the 82nd Airborne during World War II and received three Bronze Stars.

Survivors include five brothers, Carl James of Poplar Bluff, Van James of Crawfordsville, Ind., J.R. James Jr. of Sikeston, Mitchell James of White Hall, Ill., Harold James of Tracy, Calif.; four sisters, Lora Johnson of Tipp City, Ohio, Ruth Lively of Dexter, Ruby Knuckles of Brawley, Calif., June Gettings of Anderson, Calif.; two stepbrothers, Bud Miller of Sikeston, Bob Miller of St. Louis; two stepsisters, Lorene Spradling of Sikeston, and Aileen Hunt of St. Louis.