JAMES DOWLING
James W. Dowling, 66. of 1607 Devonshire Drive, C died at 3:02 p.m. Sunday (Jan. 5, 1992) at Covenant Medical Center, Urbana.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Mittendorf-Calvert-Morgan Funeral Home, 2400 Galen Drive, C. Entombment will be in Mount Hope Mausoleum,Champaign.
Visitation will follow the service at the funeral home.

Mr. Dowling was born Dec. 7, 1925, at Urbana, a son of Walter E. and Lena Ida Beck Dowling. He married Betty Stahl on June 19, 1948, at Champaign. She survives.

Also surviving are a son, Jeffrey C. Dowling of Pompano Beach,Fla; two daughters, Jill D. Burke of Boca Raton,Fla, and Lisa D. Misuraca of Palm Desert,Calif.; three grandchildren; two brothers, Bill Dowling of Okeechobee,Fla., and John Dowling of Zion,IL; a sister Darlene Weldon of Champaign; and his mother of Champaign.

He was preceded in death by his father.

Mr. Dowling was a 1943 graduate of Champaign High School. He was employed with Beck and Dowling Furniture Store, Beck's Country Store and Carson Pirie Scott and Co. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Champaign and a former member of the Champaign Elks; Western Star Lodge No. 240, AF and AM; and the Danville Consistory. He formerly played softball in Champaign-Urbana and coached Little League.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Submitted by: Pat Maley-Curtis