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Wayne E “Pete” Thrift

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Wayne E “Pete” Thrift

Birth
Maroa, Macon County, Illinois, USA
Death
20 Jun 1944 (aged 24)
Clinton, DeWitt County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Maroa, Macon County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Decatur Review, June 21, 1944, Page 11

Wayne E. Thrift, 24, Maroa, Dies in Clinton

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Maroa Methodist church for Wayne E. (Pete) Thrift of Maroa, with burial in the Maroa cemetery. Friends may call at the Dawson and Wikoff funeral home in Maroa after 6 p.m. today.
Mr. Thrift died at 10:15 a.m. yesterday in the John Warner hospital in Clinton, where he had been a patient since Sunday.
He was born Nov. 11, 1919, a son of Joseph and Mary A. Garvin Thrift, in Maroa, where he spent all of his life. He married Dorothy J. Braden in Paris, MO. on Dec. 7, 1941. A 1939 graduate of the Maroa high school, he was employed as a checker by the Garfield division of the Houdaille-Hershey Corp. He was a member of the Maroa Methodist church.
Besides his wife and parents, he leaves two brothers, Franklin of Clinton and John of South Bend, Ind., and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Williamson of Kenney.
Decatur Review, June 21, 1944, Page 11

Wayne E. Thrift, 24, Maroa, Dies in Clinton

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Maroa Methodist church for Wayne E. (Pete) Thrift of Maroa, with burial in the Maroa cemetery. Friends may call at the Dawson and Wikoff funeral home in Maroa after 6 p.m. today.
Mr. Thrift died at 10:15 a.m. yesterday in the John Warner hospital in Clinton, where he had been a patient since Sunday.
He was born Nov. 11, 1919, a son of Joseph and Mary A. Garvin Thrift, in Maroa, where he spent all of his life. He married Dorothy J. Braden in Paris, MO. on Dec. 7, 1941. A 1939 graduate of the Maroa high school, he was employed as a checker by the Garfield division of the Houdaille-Hershey Corp. He was a member of the Maroa Methodist church.
Besides his wife and parents, he leaves two brothers, Franklin of Clinton and John of South Bend, Ind., and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Williamson of Kenney.


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  • Created by: Cheryl Behrend
  • Added: Oct 8, 2003
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7959615/wayne_e-thrift: accessed ), memorial page for Wayne E “Pete” Thrift (11 Nov 1919–20 Jun 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7959615, citing Maroa Township Cemetery, Maroa, Macon County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Cheryl Behrend (contributor 39733792).