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Hold double services Tuesday for former Forrest man, wifeDouble funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Man Metz, 36, and 33, respectively, were held ruesday morning from the First United Methodist church in Evanston, and at 5 p.m. in the Forrest United Methodist church. Burial followed at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 27.1977. in Mt. Hope cemetery in Urbana.Metz and his wife, who resided at 806 Ingleside in Evanston, were killed in the crash of a private jet plane, along with two other victims, as it toe* off from Chicago’s Meigs Field on the lake front Saturday afternoon. The plane hit a flock of an estimated 250 seagulls. Details are in a separate story.Metz, a member of the noted Chicago law firm of Jenner and Block was a native of Forrest.The family has suggested that tangible expressions of sympathy be made to the Alan and Jean Metz Memorial Fund, in care of the University of Illinois Foundation at Urbana or the Evanston YMCA.Mr. Metz was bom April 14,1941 in Forrest, the son of Earl and Isabelle Finefield Metz. He married Jean Ellen St. Clair, October 3,1964 inthe University Place Christian church, Champaign.Surviving are two sons, Timothy, aged six and Daniel, aged four; his mothci .-iiis paternal grandfather, Roy Metz of Forrest; one brother, Donald Metz of Birmingham, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Vickie Ryan of Bourbonnais. His father died July 13,1975.Mr. Metz was a 1959 graduate of Forrest-Strawn-Wing high school and a 1963 graduate of the University of Illinois where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.He graduated from the Naval Officers Candidates school in Newport, R.I. and served four years in the U. S. Navy.He returned to the University of Illinois and graduated from the law school in 1970. He was a partner in the Jenner and Block law firm in downtown Chicago.Mrs. Metz was bom in 1944 to Dr. Lorentz E. and Mary L. S. Clair of Urbana. In addition to the two sons, she is survived by her mother, Urbana; two sisters, Judith Thompson of Birmingham, Mich., and Janice Walsh, Evanston. Her father preceded her in death.AALAN METZJEAN METZ Forrest man
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Forrest News
Forrest, Illinois, US
Thu, Apr 28, 1977
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