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Raymond
Keys
Raymond
Keys, 93, of Lincoln, died at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000, in
Lincoln.
Funeral
services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 25, 2000, at First
United Methodist Church of Lincoln, with the Rev. Larry Maffett
officiating.
Visitation
will be Sunday, Sept. 24, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Holland & Barry
Funeral Home in Lincoln.
Keys
was retired from Lincoln Savings & Loan, where he had worked for
46 years. He was on the management team, serving as secretary and
treasurer.
He
was born March 10, 1907, at Beason to Garfield and Artie M. (Jones)
Keys. He married Bessie M. Brandt on Feb. 17, 1933, in Springfield.
She died July 28, 1987.
Surviving
are two daughters, Mrs. James (Marian) "Tootie" Poe of
Bloomington and Mrs. Eugene (Bonnie) Thompson of St. Simon’s
Island, Ga.; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one
brother, Jimmy Keys of Yellville, Ark.
He
was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; two brothers, John
and Bill Keys; and one granddaughter, Nicole Carlin.
He
was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Lincoln and of
the Lincoln Kiwanis Club.
A
friend from the Kiwanis Club, Jack Bartelmay, who knew Raymond Keys
for 37 years, said that he was always first to volunteer and was
always "a complete gentleman."
Keys
was the Courier Man of the Month in October 1974.
He
was a graduate of Lincoln Community High School and Lincoln Business
College.
Memorials
may be made to Lincoln Public Library or the donor’s choice.
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Mildred
"Bugs" Gehlbach Ey
Mildred
“Bugs” Gelbach Ey, 90, Lincoln, died Friday, Sept. 22, 2000, at
6:25 p.m. at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Funeral
services will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 1:30 p.m. at Holland
& Berry Funeral Home in Lincoln, the Rev. Richard Reinwald and
the Rev. Canon William M. Turner officiating.
Visitation will be Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral
home. Interment will be
in New Union Cemetery, Lincoln.
Memorials
may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice.
She
was born Sept. 14, 1910, in Lincoln, daughter of Fred Gehlbach and
Emma Berger Gehlbach. She
married Vincent “Cap” Ey on Aug. 10, 1947, in Mt. Pulaski.
She
is survived by her husband; three nieces, Jeanie Bowman, Seattle,
Wash., Nancy Rubenstein, St. Charles, Mo., and Ellen Upton, Park
Ridge, Ill; five nephews, Kurt Gehlbach, Peoria, Ill., David
Gehlbach, Palatine, Ill., Dr. Frederick Gehlbach, Waco Tex., Don
Gehlbach, Columbus, Ohio, and James Ordelheide, St. Charles, Mo.;
one sister, Mrs. Elmer (Dorothy) Ordelheide, St. Charles, Mo.; and
three step grandchildren, Dr. Steven Ey, Korona Dell Mar, Calif.;
Cynthia Ey, Geneseo, Ill., and Kathryn Espirity, Munster, Ind.
She
was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Marie Gehlbach
and Helen Talmadge; and three brothers, Wilbur, Orville and Alton
Gehlbach.
She
attended Lindenwood College and was a graduate of the University of
Illinois. She taught
elementary school in Logan County, junior high school in Lincoln,
and high school in Mt. Pulaski.
She was a member of St. John United Church of Christ in
Lincoln. She was also a
member of Chapter B.M. of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, Lincoln Study Club,
and was active in the Lincoln Elks Women’s Golf Association.
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