TONY CARUSO

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Tony A. Caruso of Jackson will be held at 11 a.m. today at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, with the Rev. Grant Gillard officiating. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery.

Caruso, 83, died Saturday, Jan. 17, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Oct. 19, 1914, at Venice, Ill., son of Lawrence and Mary Simino Caruso. He married Vera Brinker Jan. 13, 1940, in St. Louis.

Caruso worked at the small arms ammunition plant in St. Louis, and at Quality Dairy in St. Louis for 26 years. He was the police chief and assistant chief at Troy, Ill., for 12 years. He also worked for the Georgia Pacific plant in Cape Girardeau for five years, retiring in 1980.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a member of American Legion in Jackson, and Disabled American Veterans in St. Louis.

He was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson where he was an active usher and greeter.

Survivors include his wife; four daughters, Sharon Grafton of Coulterville, Ill., Terry Richter of Topeka, Kan., Bonnie Kais of Aurora, Colo., Deborah Siebert of Chaffee; a sister, Mamie Ponce of Granite City; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by four brothers.