OBITUARY FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

Thomas Messick
BIRTH          1909
DEATH          1984 (aged 74–75)
BURIAL         Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip, Cook County, Illinois, USA
MEMORIAL ID    189099686

This information was obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189099686/thomas-messick. The picture above was obtained from the 1928 HHS Aurora yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1928Images/.