WILLIAM A. STRACK

Funeral service for William Anthony Strack, 211 Mason, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Rev. Glenn Eftink will officiate. Burial will be in Lightner Cemetery at Scott City, with graveside rites by VFW Post 3838.

Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Strack, 86, died Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Aug. 24, 1908, at Jonesboro, Ark., son of Phillip and Caroline Weber Strack. On March 18, 1954, he married Edna Scherer.

Strack was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral. He worked as an engineer for a barge line on the Mississippi River 16 years, and was a custodian five years at Southeast Missouri State University.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mary Walker of Cape Girardeau; a stepdaughter, Shirley Cutright of Bethalto, Ill.; five brothers, Leo Strack of San Diego, Calif., Dennis Strack of Wisconsin, Al Strack of Berwyn, Ill., Ben Strack of St. Louis, John Strack of Elgin, Ill.; two sisters, Clara Isaac of Chaffee, Mary Jackson of Sikeston; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.