HOWARD MCCOMMACK

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Howard Milton "Mac" McCommack of Scott City will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. William Dickey will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. A Masonic service will be held at 7.

McCommack, 71, died Monday, April 15, 1996, at his home.

He was born Dec. 18, 1924, in Princeton, W.Va., son of Howard Palmer and Elsie Curtis McCommack. He and Sylvia Lee Porterfield were married June 4, 1949, in Roanoke, Va.

McCommack was a retired engineer with Cotton Belt Railroad. He moved here 25 years ago from Camden, Ark. McCommack was a member of Harold O. Grauel Masonic Lodge 672 in Cape Girardeau, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, St. Louis Consistory, and Moolah Temple Shrine in St. Louis.

He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Carrie McCommack and Deborah Vetter of Scott City, Rebecca Amrhein of Waukee, Iowa; a sister, Rachel Shumate of Mullens, W.Va., and two granddaughters.

He was preceded in death by a sister.