Donald Lee LaRoe, 78, of Hazelwood entered into rest on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, at Heritage Hall Nursing Center in Centralia.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at Fenton Funeral Chapel in Centralia. Interment will be in Glendale Memorial Gardens in Centralia.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until time of services Tuesday at the funeral chapel.
He was born on Sept. 3, 1932, in Boone County, the son of George Homer and Bertha Kile LaRoe.
Survivors include three brothers, Russell LaRoe of Sturgeon, Harold LaRoe and wife Betty of Hallsville, and John LaRoe of Fulton; one sister, Pearl Patterson and husband Billy of Fordyce, Ark.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and two brothers, George H. LaRoe and Jerry Dwayne LaRoe.
Donald was a graduate of Hickman High School and of DeVry Techinical College in Chicago, with continuing education at Washington University in St. Louis.
He was a design engineer, knowledgeable with computers and radar technology, while working at McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, with forced retirement in February 1991.
He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War and was awarded the Korean Service Medal with one bronze service star, United Nations Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.
The family suggests memorials to cancer research.
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