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Author: nannie4evan
Surnames: Carr
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DEE CARR
JERSEYVILLE - Dolores Eileen "Dee" Carr, 84, died at 12:15 p.m. Thursday,
Feb.20, 2014, at the Jerseyville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
She was born on Aug. 7, 1929, one of eight children of the late Howard E. and Lelia
(Crane) Platto.
Dee graduated from Alton Senior High School and St. Luke's School of Nursing in St.
Louis.
Her adult life was spent in Houston, Texas, where she had been employed as a registered
nurse for various hospitals and, at the time of her retirement, she was working as a
school nurse.
She married Ted Carr, a radio news personality, in 1962, and they were only blessed with
one year together before he was killed in a helicopter accident in 1963.
She relocated to Jerseyville in the early part of the 1990's to be closer to family
and became an active member of the First United Methodist Church.
Surviving are two sisters and a brother-in-law, Edna Smith of Crown Pointe, Ind., and
Barbara and Bruce Johnson of Medora; a brother and sister-in-law, Paul and Patricia Platto
of Kane; two sisters-in-law, Catherine Platto of Georgia and Dottie Plato of DeValle,
Texas; nieces and nephews, DeeAnn, DaraLou, Melody, Pat, John, Eric, Jeff, Ronny, Timothy,
Jill, Tom, Nancy Jo, Pauleddie; and numerous great nieces and nephews, including, Cassie
Fibranz of Huntsville, Ala., whom she helped raise.
In addition to her parents and her husband, she was preceded in death by a sister, Eva
Rasche; three brothers, Phillip Plato, Walter Myron Platto and William D. Plato; a niece,
Tamara (Plato) Dickens; and two nephews, Michael and Anthony Plato.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 23, 2014, until time of funeral services at 1
p.m. at the Crawford Funeral Home in Jerseyville. Rev. Mark Myers will officiate.
Burial will be in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Jerseyville.
Memorials may be given to the First United Methodist Church in Jerseyville or to St. Judes
Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
Published in The Telegraph from Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, 2014
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