Deloria Agee

Monday, February 25, 2008

EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Deloria June Agee, 66, died at 12:02 a.m. Feb. 23, 2008, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria.

Born Dec. 5, 1941 in Essex, Mo., to the late Delbert and Anna Mace Curry, she worked at Illinois Bell Telephone for 30 years and retired as a supervisor over maintenance repair in 1991. She served as the director of the International Membership Division for Gold Wing Road Riders Association for two years and held several other offices during her 10 years of membership. She also had served as the president of the Business Women's Association in Peoria.

On Jan. 15, 1960, in Dexter, Mo., she married Derrell N. Agee, who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: one son, Keith and Deborah Agee of Washington; two sisters, Sue Kelley of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Regina Rice of Elizabethtown, Ark.; three brothers, Jay Curry of Vanduser, Mo., Delbert Curry Jr. of Sikeston, Mo., and Michael Curry of Olathe, Kan.; and three grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by one brother, Thoman Curry.

Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at Deiters Funeral Home in Washington, where services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery in Metamora.