Funeral for Donald Ray McCormick of Kansas City, Kan., will be held at 1 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Cy Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis.
Friends may call at the chapel from 12:30 p.m. until service time.
McCormick, 52, died Sunday, Feb. 14, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
He was born Oct. 13, 1946, in St. Louis, son of Eugene and Bernice Morris McCormick. He and Barbara Baker were married June 9, 1973, in Fairmont City, Ill.
McCormick was reared in Granite City, Ill., and attended Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.
He had worked at National Lead Co. in Granite City, worked 22 years at Monsanto Co., and most recently worked at CDS Printing Co. in Kansas City. He had lived in Kansas City two years.
McCormick served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Timothy McCormick of Kansas City; a daughter, Jennifer McCormick of Kansas City; three brothers, Edgar McCormick of Cape Girardeau, Michael McCormick of Winston-Salem, N.C., Steve McCormick of Collinsville, Ill.; and a sister, Jean Hopkins of Madison, Ill.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister.
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