Ancestors

George Clifford Ryan

George Clifford Ryan was born at Freeport, Illinois, on 21 May 1920. He was the eldest child of James Stanley Ryan, a Wisconsin-born man, and Cora E. Maurer, who was born in Illinois.

In 1930 George was nine and living with his parents in Freeport. His father was thirty-two and his mother twenty-nine. His sister Florence A. was eight. A brother, Ward Francis Ryan, was born in 1935, fifteen years after George.

George married Joyce Virginia Kuehl, a Freeport girl two years older than he was. Their daughter Corrine J. Ryan was born at Freeport on 16 December 1942, and a son, Jim, followed. Corrine married Ronald Pannkuk at Forreston on 15 October 1966.

George died at Freeport four months later, on 24 February 1967. He was forty-six. He was buried in the Garden of Devotion at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Freeport. He and Joyce share one bronze plaque, marked "Together Forever". Joyce outlived him by twenty-two years and was buried beside him, and his parents were later laid in the same garden.

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Cite: Heirology, "George Clifford Ryan (1920-1967)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/george-clifford-ryan-1920-1967-c3455b.