Christine E Derick

christine derick
Christine E. Derick, 94, of Bradford passed away at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 7, 2009, in the Toulon Health Care Center. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, with Father Vien Van Do officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Kewanee. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at the Grant-Johnson Funeral Home in Bradford. Rosary services will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. She was born Dec. 25, 1914, in Kewanee, Ill., to Jacob (Mary Vershaw) Dolieslager. She married William H. Derick in Kewanee, Ill., on June 28, 1933. He passed away June 26, 1977. Survivors are two sons, Thomas Derick of Galva, Ill., and Dennis (Nancy) Derick of Bradford, Ill.; two daughters, Rosalie (Gerald) Gray of Bradford, Ill., and Janice E. Beall of Kewanee, Ill.; 13 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and sister Lucy Huggins of Chillicothe, Ill. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, David and James Derick; a grandson, Kevin Gray; a brother and two sisters. Christine attended Visitation Grade School in Kewanee, Ill. She was a homemaker, farmer''s wife, served as a judge of elections for Osceola Township for many years, was a longtime member of Flemish-American Club in Kewanee and was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and its Alter and Rosary Society in Bradford. Memorials may be directed to Bradford Rescue Squad and her church.

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