WILLIAM K. SANDER

JACKSON -- Funeral service for William K. Sander of Jackson Route 4 will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Revs. Otto Steinhaus and Nancy Woods will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. A Scottish Rite service will be held at 7:30, and Masonic service at 8.

Sander, 74 years old, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born June 11, 1916, near here, son of Albert M. and Anna T. Kies Sander. He and the former Mae Limbaugh were married March 20, 1937.

Sander, his father, and his brother, Fred, started Sander Hardware here in 1934. After his father and brother died, he owned and managed the company from 1967 until retiring in 1987 because of ill health. He started Sander's True Value in Cape Girardeau in 1976.

He was a member and past master of Excelsior Lodge, member of Scottish Rite, Capaha Scottish Rite, Order of Eastern Star, Cape Council No. 20, Royal Arch Wilson Chapter 75 in Cape, member of New McKendree United Methodist Church and past member of the church board.

Sander re-organized the DeMolay here in 1961, and started Job's Daughters in 1970. He was a former member of Jackon R-2 School Board and Jackson City Council, past president of Jackson Merchants Association, and supporter of Cape Girardeau Association of Retarded Citizens. He received the Legion of Honor in 1971 from DeMolay.

Survivors include his wife; seven sons, William Sander of Natchitoches, La., Thomas Sander of Oklahoma City, Okla., Jim and John Sander of Jackson, Lane and Steve Sander of St. Louis, David Sander of Cape Girardeau; five daughters, Ruth Guilliams of Jackson, Marilyn Meadows of Muncie, Ind., Nancy Sander of the home, Karen Tumbrink and Patricia Sander of St. Louis; a sister, Helen Brase of Festus; 26 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother and sister.