MILLERSVILLE -- Graveside service for Ervin D. Niswonger of Millersville will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Niswonger Cemetery, with the Rev. Daniel Hale officiating.

Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. today.

Niswonger, 83, died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Oct. 6, 1911, in Millersville, son of Lester and Minnie Ates Niswonger. He and Marie Bridges were married April 26, 1936.

Niswonger moved to St. Louis in 1941 and was a machinist with Frisco Railroad a number of years. He returned to Millersville in 1958, worked as an orderly at Southeast Missouri Hospital and then at Jerry Pickens Cleaning Co. He was a member of First Baptist Church, was church treasurer 13 years, and was also church corporation treasurer.

Survivors include his wife, and a son, Gary Dayton Niswonger of Millersville.