COBDEN, Ill. -- The funeral for Cleatus W. Grabow of Cobden will be held at 3 p.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 1 p.m. until time of service.

Grabow, 81, died Sunday, Sept. 15, 2002.

He was born July 22, 1921, near Cobden, son of William and Ida Bell Landreth Grabow.

Grabow was a lifelong resident of Mt. Glen near Cobden, and a member of Walnut Grove Methodist Church.

Survivors include cousins, Carlos Brown and Jean Davie of Jonesboro, Ill., Dora Schrock of Cape Girardeau, Evelyn Heider of St. Louis, Francis Burlis of St. Charles, Mo., Mary Winn and Dorris Landreth of Cobden.

He was preceded in death by a sister.