Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Sumners-Kistler Funeral Home with Rev. Ed Frost officiating. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Crest Haven Cemetery near Claremont. Military rites will be performed at graveside.
Memorials may be made to Richland Memorial Hospital Home Health Services and Long Term Care Unit.
Doherty was born Oct. 15, 1919 in Murphysboro, the son of Stephen and Eva (Jeffrey) Doherty. He married Violet Watkins in February 1979.
He retired as store manager for General Oilfield Supply. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Clay City and the VFW, American Legion, Elks Lodge, Eagles Lodge, and Masonic Lodge of Olney.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Tony of Los Angeles, Calif., Jeffrey and his wife, Barbara, of Carbondale and Michael Watkins of Centralia; four daughters, Mary Roberts and her husband, Richard, of Lawrenceville, Patricia Hamilton and her husband, Jack, of Bruceville, Ind., Kathy Bromeling and her husband, Lloyd, of Frazee, Minn. and Linda Beckwith and her husband, Jim, of Detroit Lakes, Minn.; one brother, Stephen Doherty of Mt. Dora, Fla.; six grandchildren, Clint Durall of Terre Haute, Ind., Jackie Durall Morrison of Columbus, Ind., Jamie Shidler of Stutgardt, Germany, Scott Roberts of Elizabethtown, Ky., Jeffrey Doherty of Carbondale, and Sarah Doherty of Carbondale; and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, parents, and two grandsons.
Olney Daily Mail (IL)
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Sumners-Kistler Funeral Home with Rev. Ed Frost officiating. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Crest Haven Cemetery near Claremont. Military rites will be performed at graveside.
Memorials may be made to Richland Memorial Hospital Home Health Services and Long Term Care Unit.
Doherty was born Oct. 15, 1919 in Murphysboro, the son of Stephen and Eva (Jeffrey) Doherty. He married Violet Watkins in February 1979.
He retired as store manager for General Oilfield Supply. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Clay City and the VFW, American Legion, Elks Lodge, Eagles Lodge, and Masonic Lodge of Olney.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Tony of Los Angeles, Calif., Jeffrey and his wife, Barbara, of Carbondale and Michael Watkins of Centralia; four daughters, Mary Roberts and her husband, Richard, of Lawrenceville, Patricia Hamilton and her husband, Jack, of Bruceville, Ind., Kathy Bromeling and her husband, Lloyd, of Frazee, Minn. and Linda Beckwith and her husband, Jim, of Detroit Lakes, Minn.; one brother, Stephen Doherty of Mt. Dora, Fla.; six grandchildren, Clint Durall of Terre Haute, Ind., Jackie Durall Morrison of Columbus, Ind., Jamie Shidler of Stutgardt, Germany, Scott Roberts of Elizabethtown, Ky., Jeffrey Doherty of Carbondale, and Sarah Doherty of Carbondale; and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, parents, and two grandsons.
Olney Daily Mail (IL)
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