JOHN FLEURDELYS SR.

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for John W. Fleurdelys Sr. of Sikeston was held Tuesday at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. Burial was in Bloomfield Cemetery.

Fleurdelys, 76, died Sunday Sept. 8, 1996, at Bloomfield Nursing Center in Bloomfield.

He was born May 15, 1920, in Hannibal, son of John and Daisy Purcell Fleurdelys.

Fleurdelys retired as an electronics engineer for the FAA in Owensboro, Ky. He had been a ham radio operator since the 1930s and was a member of the American Radio Relay League. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

He married Ellen Poeppelmeyer May 9, 1940.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Ronald Fleurdelys of Jackson, Wyo.; a daughter, Diann Hagerty of St. Charles, Ill.; a brother, Paul Fleurdelys of Charleston; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son and daughter.