JOHN RICHARDSON

CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral for John Darryl Richardson of Cairo will be held at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston, Mo. The Revs. Rick White and Tim Vowels will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 9:30 a.m. until service time.

Richardson, 49, died Monday, July 13, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

He was born Nov. 1, 1948, in Charleston, son of Harry John and Betty Jo Barnbrook Richardson.

He retired in 1994 as a machinist with Gates Rubber Co. He had lived in Charleston most of his life, and was a member of the United Methodist Church.

Survivors include a friend, Janie Bass of Cairo; a brother, Kenny Vowels of Sikeston, Mo.; two sisters, Ann McCuiston of Charleston and the Rev. Jo Ponder of Colleyville, Texas.