MAX E. GRUBER

Max E. Gruber Dies Unexpectedly

Max E. Gruber, 58, of 814 Broadmoor, Peoria, died of apparently natural causes at 9:20 a.m. Sunday, May 27, 1984, at the Lakeside Campground near Spring Bay.

Born March 31, 1926, at Dixon, to Jesse and Bessie Bucher Gruber, he married Viola Smith on Nov. 23, 1947, in Princeville.

He was a truck driver for the Bosch Trucking Co. and a World War II Veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps.

Surviving are his wife, Viola and four sons, Randall of Peoria, Ronald of Peoria, Rickey of Buffalo Grove, Rodger of Peoria; six grandchildren; four brothers, Gerald of Farmington, Stanley of Bartonville, Robert Gruber of Longview, Wash., and Donald Bucher of Nampa, Idaho; three sisters, Mrs. Fred (Ollidean) Huber of Peoria; Mrs. Iona Towery of Havana and Mrs. Mary Hamm of Browning.

A graduate of Astoria High School in 1944, he had attended the Alumni Banquet here on May 12 as the class celebrated their 40th reunion.

Funeral services are to be held this afternoon at Cumerford-Endsley Memorial Home in Peoria with Pastor Arthur Larson officiating. Burial will be in Swan Lake Memory Gardens.

Memorials may be made to the Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 5/30/1984