WILLIAM VANDEVEN SR.

Funeral Mass for William H. Vandeven Sr. of Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Rev. Joe Burger will officiate. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.

Friends may call at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel from 6-8 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7, and Knights of Columbus rosary will be recited at 7:30.

Vandeven, 95, died Sunday, Feb. 13, 2000, at St. Francis Medical Center.

He was born Feb. 16, 1904, in Cape Girardeau, son of John A. and Lena Nenninger Vandeven. He and Mary L. Burger were married June 5, 1928. She died Jan. 17, 2000.

Vandeven was associated with Vandeven Mercantile 50 years, retiring April 12, 1969. He was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral, Western Catholic Union, and Knights of Columbus.

Survivors include two sons, William Vandeven Jr. of Jefferson City, James Vandeven of Washington Crossing, Pa.; two daughters, Martha Herring of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Jeannette Dohogne of Cape Girardeau; 14 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, two sisters, and three brothers.