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Charley Kazee Obituary
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in Van Natta Funeral Home, 427 S. Park Ave., in Herrin with the Rev. Don Colson officiating. Burial will be in Egyptian Memorial Gardens. Military rites will be performed by Herrin VFW and American Legion posts. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
He was born June 19, 1932, in Isonville, Ky., to Watt and Minnie (Hay) Kazee.
Mr. Kazee was in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years. He also was retired from Maytag.
Survivors include his wife, Virginia (Elders) Kazee of Herrin; three daughters, Marilyn Kazee, Lois and husband, Frank Roberts, and Vicki Kazee; son, Charles and wife, Editha Kazee; 14 grandchildren; 19 great-grand children; two brothers, Willy and wife, Gwen Kazee, and Carl Kazee; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother; and four sisters.
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Memories and Condolences
for Charley Kazee
February 23, 2012
Deepest Sympathy to the family. Charley was a kind man, always ready to help a neighbor and we appreciate all he did to help our family. A neighbor Mrs. Ben(Verna)Walker and family
February 23, 2012
To my Dad, I love you and i can always see ur face everytime i close my eyes. I sorrry u didnt get to see my kids more, but i know u loved all of them. u never saw th great grand babies frm my babies but u loved them and kept pictures of them all. u were a big man with a bigger heart. i miss u so much daddy. we all love you and know ur n heaven with grandma nd everyone. I'll tell my grand babies of th gentle mountain of a man and th great polar bear as Royal calls u. I hope i can be as u were when im reach were u are. love from all my kids and my grandbabies and me nd my wife that never met u. rest in peace daddy rest in peace.
Whitney Mitchell
February 21, 2012
Good bye Pappa Z... I enjoyed our short time out there a few years back, and thank you for making me and my mom and dad feel welcome, when we came out to see Lois and Frank. Everytime I eat a cookie I will think of you, and how you bought me some when everyone else said no.. That was a special moment for me. I have thought of you as a grand pa I never had.. I love you Pappa Z..
Bill Prewitt
February 21, 2012
Virginia, Lois Chuck, Marlyn, Vickie, you have my deepest condolences, Charley was one of the finest men I have ever known and he was my best friend,I will really miss seeing and talking to him,but he is with God now and at peace . Miss ya ole buddy
Bill
kristal kazee
February 21, 2012
In loving memory of the greatest man I have ever known. My family and I love you and will miss you.
kristal kazee
February 21, 2012
Papa you are missed dearly.
there were angels in the room with you the last week you spent on earth, they reached out their hands to you and said come let us take you home. Gather your family all around say your last good byes, its time for you to rest now and be free from all your pain. There's angels all around you now, come follow us, home is this way. You will get to see the face of God and walk the streets of gold, charley you earned you wings you will now and forever be free.
Papa know your are loved, we miss you, we will always remember you.
Melissa Fowler
February 21, 2012
Jesus screams a silence
over a tomb made of sotne,
into the ground you're lowered,
that grave becomes your home.
in the spring you smell the flowers,
in the winter a blanket of frost,
Somewhere between today and tomorrow,
a grandfather has been lost.
Where do angels get their feathered wings?
where do they leanr angelic things?
These answers to these in heaven lie,
Charley, I thought angels never die.
Season change, the days become years.
Hurt and sorrow flee our minds in the form of our tears,
Unforgetable memories forever in our hearts lie,
I thought Angels never die.
February 21, 2012
Melissa Fowler
February 21, 2012
We will miss you Papaw, thank you for all the years of positive memories you have given me and my children, I will cherish them forever. You were a man of few words, but I always knew I was loved. You made sure of that. I love you, forever and always.
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