ELVIN BLUMENBERG

Funeral for Elvin William Blumenberg of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Revs. Gary Brothers and Jerry Willer will officiate. Burial will be in Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery at Gordonville.

Friends may call at the chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.

Blumenberg, 68, died Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1999, at St. Louis University Hospital.

He was born Feb. 9, 1931, at Whitewater, son of Albert and Amanda Deneke Blumenberg. He and Linda Willer were married Jan. 22, 1960, in Cape Girardeau.

Blumenberg drove a cement mixer truck for McDonald Concrete 27 years, retiring in 1996. He was a member of First Assembly of God Church, and had been a campground host volunteer at Trail of Tears State Park.

He was a graduate of Delta High School, and attended Southeast Missouri State University. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Survivors include his wife; a son Dwayne Blumenberg of Woodland, Texas; two daughters, Gayla and Gina Blumenberg of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Melvin and Gene Blumenberg of Whitewater; two sisters, Maxine Friedrich of Jackson, and Corinne Ashley of Sparta, Ill.

He was preceded in death by his parents.