Verlin Uthoff

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Verlin Bryant "Tuck" Uthoff, 87, of Charleston died Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo.

He was born Sept. 6, 1921, in Mississippi County, Mo., son of Fred Andrew and Ava Hinton Uthoff. He and Dorothy Marie Telker were married April 27, 1944. She died Dec. 24, 2004.

He was a 1940 graduate of Diehlstadt High School and had lived in Mississippi County his entire life. He owned and operated the Crystal Inn at Charleston from 1948 to 1983. He had also been self-employed in trucking, as a seed corn representative and as an insurance agent. He was a member of St. Henry Catholic Church in Charleston.

Survivors include five sons, Gary and Bill Uthoff of St. Louis, Robert Uthoff of Slidell, La., Greg Uthoff of Boynton Beach, Fla., Dr. Fred Uthoff of Sikeston; two daughters, Judy Poyner of Scott City, Nancy Leigh of Goldsboro, N.C.; a sister, Bonnie Crosno of Bartlett, Tenn.; 11 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. Prayers will be recited at 7.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Henry Catholic Church, with the Rev. Scott Sunnenberg and Monsignor Richard Rolwing as celebrants. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery near Charleston.