SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Willis Glandville Lair of Scott City will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. John Ferguson will officiate. Burial will be in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis.
Friends may call at the chapel Thursday from 8 a.m. until service time.
Lair, 68, died Friday, May 28, 1999, at All Saints DePaul Hospital in St. Louis.
He was born May 14, 1931, in St. Louis, son of Edward and Lula Baker Lair.
Lair was manager of Osco Pharmacy in Cape Girardeau for a brief period of time, was a gardener for a bed and breakfast in the St. Louis area, and had worked for the Society of the Sacred Heart.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Survivors include a sister-in-law, Viola Lair of Chaffee.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother.
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