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- The News Gazette
February 23, 1982
Joseph M. Broderick, 65, of 1009, Nirth Cunningham Ave., U., died at 8:10 a.m. Monday (Feb. 22, 1982) at Mercy hospital. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Renner Wokoff Chapel, Dan Large officiating. Burial will be in East Lawn cemetery. Visitation will be 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Mr. Broderick was born Jan. 26, 1917, in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son of Patrick and Ellen Monahan Broderick. He married Gertrude Wheeler in 1937. She died in 1951. On Feb. 27, 1952, he married Pauline Pellum in Urbana. She survives.
Other survivors include a son, Joseph A. Broderick, two daughters, Sheila A. Broderick of Urbana and Pamela J. Brock of Urbana; stepson, Dale Moyer of Champaign; five grandchildren; and a brother Thomas A. Broderick of Brooklyn. He was preceded in death by a sister.
Mr. Broderick was the owner and operator of his own trucking company. Before he started his own business, he worked for Red Ball trucking company at Indianapolis. Mr. Broderick was a three time member of the Million Miler Club. During World War II, he served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific.
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