Harlo B. Ricketts

Harlo Ricketts Services: 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home, 2907 Mulberry Ave. Visitation: 4-7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, funeral home. ILLINOIS CITY, Ill. #45;- Harlo B. Ricketts, 86, Illinois City, died Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005, at Unity Hospital, Muscatine. The Rev. Timothy Ferrill will officiate the services. Burial will be at Drury Reynolds Cemetery. After the burial, a time of food and fellowship will be held at Illinois City United Methodist Church. A memorial has been established at the funeral home. Mr. Ricketts was born Nov. 14, 1918, in Illinois City, Ill., the son of Raymord J. and Katherine Watson Ricketts. He married Mary D. Ziegenhorn Oct. 12, 1946, at Providence Baptist Church, Drury Township, Ill. He graduated from Muscatine High School and Muscatine Community College. He later attended the University of Illinois, Champagne, Ill., before enlisting in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he received a Purple Heart from wounds received in Germany. He was a lifetime farmer in the area and was a member of the Illinois City United Methodist Church in Rock Island County, Ill., the Rockridge School Board, Rock Island Soil and ...[more]

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servation Board and Hamlet Mutual Insurance Board. In past years, he was active in Boy Scouts and the Volunteer Fire Department. Survivors include his wife; a son, Alan Ricketts and wife Lori of Illinois City; two grandchildren, Aaron and Tracy Ricketts; and a special cousin, Ruth Fuller of Illinois City. He was preceded in death by his parents.