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Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. Sunday at
Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home in Atlanta. A funeral
Mass for Mr. McGuire will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at
St. Mary's Church in Atlanta, with Father John Cyr
officiating.
Burial will be in McLean Cemetery.
He owned McGuire Sales and Service (TV and radio)
in McLean until 1957 and then was a radio and
communications technician for the Illinois State
Police in Pontiac until he retired in 1979.
He was a decorated veteran of the U.S. Army and
served in the Battle of the Bulge during World War
II.
He was born Dec. 12, 1917, at Funks Grove to
Lawrence P. and Lillie Necessary McGuire. He married
Elizabeth Mills Loercher on April 12, 1956, in
Lincoln.
Surviving Mr. McGuire are his wife of 50 years,
in McLean; six sons, David (and Jane) McGuire of
Broken Arrow, Okla., Ron McGuire of Heyworth, Larry
(and Susan) McGuire of Lexington, Richard (and Jean)
Loercher of Whitefish, Mont., Paul (and Vickie)
Loercher of McLean and Roger (and Ursala) Loercher
of Normal; one daughter, Loretta Carol (and Larry)
Hankins of Normal; a daughter-in-law, Carol Loercher
of Bloomington; four brothers, Vern McGuire of
Lehigh Acres, Fla., Dale (and Alice) McGuire of
Houston, Texas, Roy (and Bertie) McGuire of McLean
and Paul (and Rose Mary) McGuire of Bloomington; 15
grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sons, Neil
McGuire and Fred Loercher, and one brother, James
McGuire.
He was a member of St. Mary's Church in Atlanta,
American Legion Post 573, Disabled American
Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 454, the
Purple Heart organization and the Quarter Century
Radio Club.
He graduated from McLean High School in 1936.
Memorials may be made to the McLean Rescue Squad
or to the Ambucs of Bloomington.
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