PETTICE, Joseph W. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Joseph W. "Jose" Pettice, 76, Alvin, Ill., died at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, at the Americana Healthcare Center, Danville, Ill., where he had been a patient since February, 1986. He was born Feb. 6, 1910, in Henning, Ill., the son of Camey and Ida Mae Deck Pettice. He was married March 7, 1938, to Florence I. Wood, who survives. He had lived in the Alvin area most of his life. He had farmed, worked at Harrison Steel Casting Co.., Attica, and the State of Illinois Highway Department. He enjoyed fishing and repairing televisions, He was a member of the Bowman Avenue Church of God in Danville. Surviving, besides his wife, are a son, Sgt 1st Class Jose, El Paso, Texas; two daughters, Mrs. Harvey (Martha) PHillips, Alvin, and Mrs. Frank (Irene) Watson, Las Vegas, Nev.; a brother, Milton, Hoopeston; three sisters, Golda Stockwill, Rossville; Myrtle Schwedler, Kewanee, Wis., and Frances Rumble, Danville; five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by three sisters and seven brothers.. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Morrison Funeral Home, Bismarck, with the Rev. J. T. Riggs officiating. Burial was in Gundy Cemetery.