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2018
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Alva Sullivan Obituary
Alva Dean Sullivan, nee McCoy, 77, of Waterloo, Illinois, died August 4, 2018, in Waterloo, IL. She was born December 17, 1940, in Salem, MO.
Alva graduated 8th grade at Gratiot School, St. Louis, MO. She worked at Deaconess Hospital and ran a bar in Waterloo, IL, called the Half Way for 9 years. She was a member of NARVE (National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees Inc., and Piston Pushers- Retired Auto Club.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Edward P. and Iva M. (nee Craig) McCoy; brother, Jack McCoy; and sister, Paula Coplin.
She is survived by her husband, Jerry Derrill Sullivan; children, Donna L. (Brandon) Timpe, Sherry D. (Jeff) Bicklein, Christina M. Straub (Ron Embry), and Jeri D. Sullivan (Jason Plake); grandchildren Jaime Jaeger-Werner, Erin Straub, Lyndsay Straub, Andrew Bicklein, Natalie Bicklein, Samantha Chartrand, Thomas Whitehouse, and Madeline Bicklein; and great-grandchildren, Blayne Straub, Jimmy McCance, Iva McCance, Zoey Chartrand, Michael Middleton Jr., Justin McCance Jr., and Jacob Chartrand.
As an expression of sympathy the family prefers memorial contributions to Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics Academic Gift Fund.
Visitation: Visitation from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday, August 6, 2018, at Quernheim Funeral Home, Waterloo, and again from 9 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, August 7, 2018.
Services: Funeral Mass at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, August 7, 2018, at Immaculate Conception Church in Columbia, IL, Msgr. Carl Scherrer officiating. Interment at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, MO.
QUERNHEIM FUNERAL HOME, Waterloo, IL.
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