Charles E. Ulry Jr. Obit: Louisiana, MO 7/4/2004
Charles E. Ulry Jr.
Louisiana March 31, 1926-July 4, 2004
LOUISIANA - Charles Emmett Ulry Jr., 78, of Louisiana, died Sunday, July 4, 2004, at the Maple Grove Lodge Nursing Home in Louisiana.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 7, at the Collier Funeral Home in Louisiana. The Rev. Earl Wood will officiate. Burial will be at Riverview Cemetery in Louisiana.
Visitation will be from noon until time of services Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mr. Ulry was born March 31, 1926, in Palmyra to Charles Emmett Ulry Sr. and Ada Beulah McKee Ulry.
He married Opal Helen Green on April 20, 1963, at the First Baptist Church in Louisiana. She survives.
Also surviving are one son, Jim Ulry and wife, Billie, of Trenton, N.J.; three daughters, Becky Allen and husband, Kenny of Louisiana, Alberta Robbins and husband, Gary, of Springfield, Ill., and JoAnne Walker and husband, Larry, of Bowling Green; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one sister, Wanda Webster of the state of Ohio; and two brothers, Joe Ulry of Hannibal and Mike Ulry of Kansas City, Kan.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Richard Lee Ulry and Dennis Shawn Ulry; and one sister, Patricia Ann Land.
Mr. Ulry attended school in Palmyra and Hannibal, and was a 1943 graduate of Hannibal High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in October 1943 and received basic training in Farragut, Idaho. He attended radio school in Indianapolis, graduating second highest in a class of 250 men. He received the rank of 3rd Class Petty Officer after graduation. He served the remainder of his time on the Destroyer Escort, USS Earl V. Johnson as radioman. He was promoted to Petty Officer 2nd Class while on this tour of duty. He was discharged from the Navy in 1945.
Mr. Ulry was active in the bakery business in Louisiana for 25 years. He later became interested in the nursing home business. He owned and operated the Smith-Barr Manor, the Louisiana Nursing Home and Maple Grove Lodge Nursing Home, all in Louisiana, from 1975 until his 1990 retirement. While in this business he was very active in the Missouri Health Care Association and served on the executive board for several years, later becoming president of the association for one year.
He was a lifetime member of American Legion Post No. 370 in Louisiana and had served as post commander for two years. He was a member of the Louisiana Elks Lodge No. 791. In his younger years he was active in the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Louisiana.
Memorials may be made to Maple Grove Lodge Nursing Home or the Cancer Center at Hannibal Regional Hospital, in care of Collier Funeral Homes Inc., 117 Barnard Drive, Louisiana, Mo. 63353.
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