Obituary of James Edward Courtwright Malerich
LINCOLN ---(PNS)--- James E. Malerich, 59, prominent Lincoln businessman, was killed in a collision with a truck at 1 p.m. Tuesday four miles east of Mexico, Mo., according to word received Tuesday afternoon by his family. Also injured in the crash were Harold E. Thomas, owner of the International Harvester Agency in Lincoln, and O. M. (Doc) Courtwright, Lincoln horse trainer. Thomas received fractures of a hip and leg and is in a Mexico hospital. Courtwright has a minor laceration of an arm.
The three men left here Tuesday morning in the Thomas car to attend a horse sale in Mexico. The car collider with a MIssouri state highway maintenance truck.
Mr. Malerich will be brought to the Holland and Barry Funeral Home Wednesday evening. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. John T. Burns officiating. Burial will be in [Old] Union Cemetery.
He was born May 28, 1894, in Peoria, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Malerich. He married Katherine Dinnius at Newport, Ky., in 1937.
Surviving are his wife, two sons, Edward M., James F., both Lincoln; two daughters, Mrs. Florence House, rural New Holland; Miss Judith Elizabeth Malerich, Lincoln; two half-brothers, Earl, Decatur; Clem, Lincoln; one half-sister, Mrs. Ruth Thickson, Lincoln, and six grandchildren.
He was a member of the firm Malerich and Sons, cleaners and dyers. He was first governor of the Lincoln Moose Lodge and was well known in Central Illinois as a semi-pro baseball pitcher in the 'Twenties.