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Tampico Tornado, Thursday April 4, 1957

W. G. Cortright Dead

Funeral services for Wilson G. CORTRIGHT, 79, a former Tampico resident, were held Sunday afternoon at the Schilling funeral home in Erie. Burial was inthe Erie cemetery.

Mr. CORTRIGHT, who farmed in this community for several years, pased away Thursday in a hospital in Waukegan. For the past five years he had made his home in Winthrop Harbor with his daughter, Mrs. Homer HANKENSON.

He is survived by his daughter, Ruth; two gransons, Terry and Lewis; and two sisters, Mrs. Lora PERKINS and Mrs. Flory DENNIS of Erie. His wife preceded him in death.

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