Donald W Mecum Sr

July 13, 1936 ~ October 1, 2011
Donald W. Mecum Sr., 75, of Kasbeer died at 9:44 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton. Born July 13, 1936, in Whiteside County to Benjamin and Fern (Whipple) Mecum, he married F. Geraldine Clark June 15, 1958, in Dover. She died July 9, 2006. He attended Southern Illinois University. He retired from Pioneer HI-Bred in Princeton in 1989 and had also worked at elementary schools in Princeton. He was a member of the New Hope Church of the Nazarene in Princeton. Surviving are two sons, Donald W. (Christine) Mecum Jr.of Wyanet and Scott (Stacey) Mecum of Kasbeer; one daughter, Gerri Lyn (David) Herren of Glasford; two brothers, Eugene (Dorothy) Mecum of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Sonny Mecum of Dixon; one sister, Berniece Powers of Peoria; and four grandchildren, Nicholas Mecum of Hilray, Ohio, and David Maynard, Shane Mecum and Rebecca Mecum, all of Wyanet. He was also preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, William, Charles and Kenneth Mecum; and two sisters, Yvonne Cade and Marilyn Wolzfelt. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Grant-Johnson Funeral Home, Princeton, with the Rev. Rhonda Hollars officiating. Burial will be in Limerick Cemetery, Kasbeer. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to the family.
Don and I were classmates at Princeton High School, class of ’56. We have missed him at our annual class reunions. My deepest sympathy