THOMAS HALE SR.

THEBES, Ill. -- Funeral service for Thomas Earl Hale Sr. of Thebes will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Jones Funeral Home in Tamms. The Rev. Jimmie L. Monahan will officiate. Burial will be in National Cemetery at Mound City, with military rites by American Legion Post 900 of McClure.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.

Hale, 66, died Tuesday, April 8, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Feb. 1, 1931, at Gale, son of Thomas Monroe and Susie Winemiller Hale. He married Ann Driscoll.

Hale retired after 16 years as a heavy equipment operator with Anna Quarries Inc. in Anna. He was a volunteer fireman and former captain with Thebes Volunteer Fire Department. He was also a volunteer with Alexander County Ambulance Service.

He served in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy.

Survivors include his wife; five sons, Mark Kennedy of Jackson-ville, Fla., John and Michael Kennedy of Thebes, Tom Hale Jr. of Jackson, Mo., Michael Hale of Cape Girardeau; five daughters, Nancy Brown of Picayune, Miss., Debra Kelly of McClure, Dorliss Rhymer of Florida, Rosie Hale of New Mexico, and Patricia Glueck of Kelso, Mo.

Also surviving are five brothers, James, Robert and Larry Hale of Thebes, Donald Hale of Tamms, Norman "Doc" Hale of McClure; two sisters, Elizabeth Watson of Beebe, Ark., Susan Baugher of Thebes; 23 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers.