Jerome P. Secor, 78, Plainfield, died Saturday, Nov. 20, 1999, at St. Michael’s Hospital.
Funeral services will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Gasperic Funeral Home in Plainfield with the Rev. Gregory Coulthard officiating. Burial will be in Racine.
Visitation will be from 4 until 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The VFW will hold a service at 7:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family would be appreciated.
Mr. Secor was born Oct. 8, 1921, in Hurley, a son of the late Mathew and Henrietta Secor.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
He was married to Marcella DeStasio on June 12, 1948, in Montreal, Wis. She survives.
He was employed at Gorton Machine Co. in Racine as a machinist and Franklin Electric and was an iron ore miner for 12 years.
He was a life and charter member for the Hurley VFW Post and a member of the Volunteer Fire Department in Sturtevant.
Other survivors include two sons, Jerome Jr., Clovis, Calif., and Mark, Racine; three daughters, Mary Etta (Michael) Stanfield, Racine, Marcy (Jeff) Baumann, Hancock, and Karen (Rick) Torres, Burlington; three brothers, Mathew (Ange) and William (Vivian), both of Milwaukee, and Robert (Vivian), Hurley; four sisters, Flouise DeCarlo, Hurley, Peggy (Bob) Van Ouwerkerk, Hurley, Marita Pedretti, Milwaukee, and Henrietta (Burt) White, Minneapolis, Minn.; nine grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by one daughter, four brothers and one great-grandson.
