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Florence
Lessen
Florence
V. Lessen, 90, formerly of Emden, died at 7:40 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 17,
2000, at Pekin Living & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs.
Lessen was a homemaker.
Funeral
services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, at Woolsey Funeral
Home in Delavan, with the Rev. Frank Pieper officiating.
Burial
will be in Bethel Cemetery, rural Emden.
Visitation
will be one-half hour before the services at the chapel.
She
was born Nov. 5, 1910, in Hazard County, Kentucky, to Edward and
Laura (West) Conder. She married Garbrand D. Lessen on April 24,
1929, in Hartsburg. He died Nov. 22, 1973, in Hopedale.
Surviving
are two daughters, Virginia (Mrs. Richard) Lusher of Delavan and
Delores Carmichael of Springfield; 15 grandchildren; and many
great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
She
was also preceded in death by two sons, Virgil in 1989 and Galen in
1998; one grandson; four sisters; and two brothers.
She
was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Emden.
Memorials
may be made to her church.
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R.
Lyle Staats
R.
Lyle Staats, 75, of Lincoln, formerly of Beason, died at 2:50 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 18, 2000, at St. Clara’s Manor.
Funeral
services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, at Holland &
Barry Funeral Home in Lincoln, with Billy Joe Shanle and Brad Neal
officiating.
Burial
will be in Harmony Cemetery, Beason.
Visitation
will be one hour before the service at the funeral home.
Staats
was retired from farming in Logan County.
He
served in the Korean War.
He
was born Aug. 6, 1925, in Beason to Raymond and Suzanne (Irwin)
Staats. He married Helen Cofer Smith on Sept. 10, 1983, at the
Sweetwater Christian Church.
She
survives, in Beason. Also surviving are stepchildren Carolyn Neal of
Lincoln, Melva Jo Breitenstein of Long Grove, Roger Theobald of
Broadwell, Mark Theobald of Elkhart, Edwina Ellegood of Bloomington
and Brazilla Leonard of Farmersville; 11 grandchildren; one sister,
Roberta Krusemark of Emden; one niece, Karen Yocius of Wadsworth;
and two nephews, Jim Krusemark of Peoria and Lynn Krusemark of
Manchester, Mo.
Staats
was a member of Buffalo Christian Church and a member of the Lincoln
Masonic Lodge for many years.
Memorials
may be made to Buffalo Christian Church or Knapp-Chester-Becker
Historical Society.
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