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Willard Jecks

Willard Jecks
Services for Willard Jecks, 76, 2206 46th St., Rock Island, are 10:30 a.m. Monday at Knox-Larson Funeral Home, Rock Island. Burial is in National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, with military rites conducted.
Visitation is 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, with masonic services at 7:30. Memorials may be made to Heart Fund or Church of Peace United Church of Christ Centennial Fund.
Mr. Jecks died Wednesday, July 26, 1995, at Trinity Medical Center, East Campus, Moline.
Mr. Jecks was born Oct. 1, 1918, in Wauconda, Ill., the son of Ellis Preston and Dora Isabel Grantham Jecks. He married Ruby Louise VanZandbergen June 11, 1949, in Rock Island.
He attended Bradley University, Peoria.
He was employed as inspection foreman at Eagle Signal Corp., formerly of Moline, until 1966. Later, he worked as a quality assurance specialist at the Rock Island Arsenal, for 14 years.
He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of Moline Consistory and Rock Island Lodge 658. He was also active in local camping clubs.
He was a World War II Army veteran.
He enjoyed traveling, woodworking and mall walking.
Survivors include the widow; sons and daughters-in-law, Fred and Barbara Jecks, Deltona, Fla., and Robert and Marcy Jecks, East Moline; and grandchildren, Daniel, Kelly, Timothy and Lisa.
--The Dispatch, Moline, Illinois, July 28, 1995 Page 5