CHARLES ALFRED TELKER, age 89, of Charleston, died Friday, July 24, 2020, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born December 29, 1930, at St. Louis, MO, to the late John Telker and Helen Cecelia Bayus Telker. A 1948 graduate of the St. Henry High School in Charleston, he went on to study one year at Loyola University in New Orleans, LA. He then joined the U.S. Air Force and served during the Korean Conflict. Following his discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he returned to Southeast Missouri and completed his degree in biology and coaching.   He then taught in Otterville, Michigan for four years before returning to Charleston where he taught 30 years in the Charleston R-1 School District.   He was a member of the St. Henry Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, and the V.F.W.   He had been a small engine air plane pilot, loved to hunt, fish and operate his HAM Radios.

On June 23, 1956, he married Ruth Ann Carr who survives of the home.

Also surviving are his children, Charlotte Ann Telker of Sikeston; Kenneth A. Telker of Charleston and Bruce E. Telker of Chaffee, and several cousins.

Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until funeral hour at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2020, at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. Rev. David Dohogne, pastor of St. Henry Catholic Church in Charleston, will officiate.

Interment will follow in the Calvary Cemetery near Charleston with full military honors.

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