ELECK RICHARDS

EAST PRAIRIE -- Graveside service for Eleck C. Richards of East Prairie will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Aubrey Wilson will officiate.

Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.

Richards, 85, died Friday, May 29, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

He was born July 13, 1912, in Illinois, son of William Henry and Lilly Gregory Richards. He and Lavern Grigsby were married Nov. 4, 1984.

Richards was a retired truck driver. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Huntington Beach, Calif. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; a brother, Chester Richards of Fort Bragg, Calif.; three sisters, Betty Kelly of Manzanita, Ore., Freda John of Portland, Ore., and Barbara Grey of Troutdale, Ore.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.