Services were Tuesday, May 11, in St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Riverside, with the Reverends Mark Spring and Rudy Berndt officiating. Burial was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Riverside.

Born August 12, 1923, in Riverside, he was the son of J.L. and Irmina (Schnoebelen) Yeggy. He was a 1941 graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Riverside. He served in the Merchant Marines from 1944-1946.

Alvin Yeggy, 75, of Riverside died Saturday, May 8, 1999, at his home following a brief illness.

Services were Tuesday, May 11, in St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Riverside, with the Reverends Mark Spring and Rudy Berndt officiating. Burial was in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Riverside.

Born August 12, 1923, in Riverside, he was the son of J.L. and Irmina (Schnoebelen) Yeggy. He was a 1941 graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Riverside. He served in the Merchant Marines from 1944-1946.

Mr. Yeggy and Mary Catherine Simon were married August 12, 1947 in Riverside. He was a farmer and truck driver for Rock Island Motor Transit for 30 years.

He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Riverside.

Survivors include two sons and their wives, Gerry and Kay Yeggy, Barrington, Illinois, and Tom and Eileen Yeggy of Moline, Illinois; five daughters and their husbands, Kathy and Brad Trickey, Kingwood, Texas, Denise and Tim Sieges, Charlotte, North Carolina, Janice and Jeff Schott of Byron, Illinois, Nancy and Steve Abram of Rocky Mt., North Carolina, and Mary Ellen and Jeff Maske of Iowa City; eighteen grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and three step-great-grandchildren; one brother, Walter Yeggy of Fremont, California; three sisters, Rita Croft, of Fremont, Virginia Grimsich of Morgan Hill, California and Luthena Conklin of Iowa City.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Mt. Olivet Cemetery Fund and the Parkinson Research Fund.

Sorden’s Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.