DENNIS D. WELKER

Funeral service for Dennis D. Welker, 412 Green Acres, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Bill Reid will officiate. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery, with military rites by VFW Post 3838.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today.

Welker, 69, died Monday, Jan. 31, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Oct. 31, 1924, in Cape Girardeau, son of Dollar R. and Josephine Baker Welker. He and Helen Probst were married Oct. 24, 1942, in Cape Girardeau.

Welker owned Welker Restoration Co., and had been in the tuckpointing business 40 years. He was a member of VFW Post 3838, and Bricklayers and Allied Craftsman International Union of America Local 23. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European Theatre.

Survivors include his wife; four sons, Richard, Larry and Mark Welker of Cape Girardeau, Master Sgt. Danny Welker with the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, Calif.; two daughters, Judith Welker of Cape Girardeau, Janice Schrieber of Poplar Bluff; a sister, Dena Talley of Cape Girardeau; 10 grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.

He was preceded in death by five brothers and a sister.