Kenneth Babb

Kenneth Lee Babb, 90, of Mount Pulaski, formerly of Lexington, Ky., died at 6:13 a.m. Saturday, March 3, 2001, at Memorial Medical Center.

A graveside service, with Connie Rieger officiating, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, at Macon County Memorial Park, the place of burial.

Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski.

Babb was a retired U.S. Army Depot packaging inspector.

He was born Sept. 11, 1910, at Clinton to Charles Lee and Mary Belle (Gaddy) Babb. He married Imogene Strickland. She died in 1965. He married Ruby Moore Mann in 1986.

Surviving are his second wife, Ruby Babb of Lexington, Ky.; one daughter, Barbara Lee (Charles) Aylesworth of Mount Pulaski; one son, Richard "Charles" (Pauline) Babb of Richmond, Ky.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, first wife and a half brother.

He was a member of Porter Memorial Baptist Church of Lexington, Ky., and a 50-year member of the Stephen Decatur Masonic Lodge 979 in Decatur. He was in the Civil Service 31 years.

Memorials may be made to St. John Lutheran Church in Mount Pulaski.

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Alma ‘Jewell’ Welty

Alma "Jewell" Welty, 67, of Lincoln died at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield on Friday, March 2, 2001.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, with the Rev. Louis Compton officiating.

Burial will be in Funks Grove Cemetery.

Visitation will be one hour before the service at the funeral home.

Ms. Welty worked as a technician at Lincoln Developmental Center in Lincoln before her retirement.

She was born to James and Florence (Pitts) Stanley at Cave-In-Rock on June 11, 1933.

She is survived by three daughters, Sheila K. (Terry) Lessen, Judy (Randy) Green and Jackie Welty, all of Lincoln; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one sister, Ina Holland of Ridgeway.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.

Memorials may be made to the Ronald McDonald House in Springfield.

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