Eacret, Donald Eugene
Source: The Fountain County Neighbor, November 8, 2006, pg A3
STONE BLUFF — Donald Eugene
"Gene” Eacret, 77, Stone Bluff, died at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, 2006 in
Provena United Samaritan Medical Center, Logan Campus, Danville, Ill. He was
born March 23, 1929 in rural Williamsport, the son of Claude and Florence Edith
(Bell) Eacret. He married Ruth O. Young Sept. 13, 1952 in the Attica Free
Methodist Church. She survives. He was raised near West Lebanon, attending West
Lebanon High School. He had lived in Stone Bluff since 1955. He formerly worked
at Harrison Steel Castings Company in Attica and later as a machinist for Tee
Pak Company in Danville, where he worked for 26 1/2 years, retiring Jan. 8,
1993. He served during the Korean Conflict in the U. S. Army. He was a life
member of the V.F.W. Post #3318 of Attica. He had attended the Stone Bluff
United Methodist Church. He was an avid woodworker. Survivors, besides the
wife, include: two sons, Samuel David (Sharon) Gritten, Attica and Robert
Everett (Joyce) Eacret, Port St. Lucie, Fla.; a grandson raised in the home, Donald
Edwin Eacret, Stone Bluff, four sisters, Marilyn Scott, Williamsport, Pearl
(Jesse) Hutts and Patricia Kirby, both of Attica, and Catherine Abernathy,
LaFollette, Tenn.; eight other grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. He
was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Arthur and Richard Eacret;
and two sisters, Flora Cunningham and Janet Murphy. Funeral services were at 2
p.m. Tuesday in Maus Funeral Home, Attica, with Pastor Stanley Hicks
officiating. Burial was in Osborn Prairie Cemetery, near Stone Bluff. Online
condolences may be sent to www.mausfuneralhome.com. – jlr