Graveside memorial service for Edward Sitze, formerly of Cedar Hill, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Dudenville Cemetery in Lamar. The Rev. Cliff Crockett will officiate.
Chapel Hill Mortuary in Cedar Hill is in charge of arrangements.
Sitze, 79, died Sunday, Dec. 14, 1997, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau.
He was born March 2, 1918, in Bollinger County, son of Raleigh Eli and Cora Mae Whitner Sitze. He married Vera N. Salow, who preceded him in death.
Sitze served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a life member of VFW Post 963 and Disabled American Veterans.
Survivors include a son, Ronald Sitze of High Ridge.
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