John William “Bill” Berry, a 59-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 at the Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany.
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Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday,Feb. 13, 2008 at the Princeton United Methodist Church, under the direction of the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Service of Princeton. Pastor Robin Banion will officiate. Burial will be in the Hamilton Cemetery, west of Modena.
Visitation is under way at the funeral home, where a family visitation will be from 7 to 8 o’clock tonight (Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008).
Mr. Berry was born on July 29, 1949 in Trenton, the son of William George and Mary Madeline Millemon Berry. He was a 1966 graduate of Princeton High School. In his early years he worked on bridge construction in the Atlantic, IA area and was a machinist and welder at Anchor Metals and the Fruehauf Corporation in Ft. Madison, IA. He had also been employed in road construction with Central Paving of Indianola, IA, for five years and with KOSS Construction Company in the state of Kansas for 18 years.
He was married on April 30, 1966 to Barbara Jean Wolf, who survives of the home, southwest of Princeton. He and his wife were in business together as co-owners of PRinceton Freez, a fast food business in Princeton, from 1975 to 1978.
He retired in October 2007. He enjoyed woodworking, home repair, genealogy, reading and tinkering with the computer. He was a member of the Princeton Methodist Church.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Kathy Yearns and her husband, Earl, of Queen City; a son, William Michael “Bill” Berry and his wife, Camile, of Virginia Beach, VA; six grandchildren Camile Ellen, Melissa and Billy Berry and Ricky, Tim and Robby Yearns; two sisters, Vicky Waldron and her husband, Billy, of Spickard, and Diane Swigart of Princeton; and other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant sister, Mary Rose Berry.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the American Diabetes Association. They may be left at or mailed to the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel at PO Box 316, Princeton, MO 64673.