Delpha G. Eckery

      Delpha G. Eckery, 76, of Mt. Pleasant, died at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, 2000, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.

      The funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church with Fr. Nick Adam officiating. Visitation will begin at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at Weir Funeral Home with recitation of the Rosary at 7 p.m. and the family greeting friends following the Rosary until 8:30 p.m. Burial will be in St. Alphonsus Cemetery. A memorial has been established to Mt. Pleasant Senior Citizens Center.

      Mrs. Eckery was born June 3, 1924, in Jackson Township, the daughter of Ralph W. and Alice L. Crawford Bunker. She married Floyd R. Drummond in 1948 at Fort Madison, who preceded her in death in 1952. She married Francis W. Eckery on Oct. 26, 1980, at Ottumwa. A 1944 graduate of Mt. Pleasant High School, she worked at Sheaffer Pen Company in Mt. Pleasant for a few years, then worked for many years at the Iris Motel and retired in 1985 after a few years at Staats. She was a member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church and the Rock Hound Societies of Mt. Pleasant and Fairfield.

      Survivors include her second husband, two sons, Floyd Drummond of Mt. Pleasant and Ralph Drummond of Ottumwa; two stepsons, Delbert Drummond of Wayland, Mo. and Ray Dean Drummond of Dearborn, Mich.; a sister, Marvoleen Hinkle of Mt. Pleasant; nine grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and eight step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband and a stepson, Darrell Drummond.