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Sara
Sparks
Sara
C. Sparks, 95, of Lincoln died at 7:40 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, 2001, at
St. Clara's Manor in Lincoln.
Mrs.
Sparks will be cremated.
A
graveside service at Holy Cross Cemetery, Lincoln, will be conducted
at a later date. Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
There
is no visitation.
Mrs. Sparks was a
housewife.
She was born Dec. 15,
1905, in Lincoln to Joseph and Sarah McGarity Quinn. She married
Wilbur C. "Pete" Sparks on Nov. 16, 1929, in Auburn. He
died July 2, 1959.
Surviving are two
daughters, Sarah A. "Sally" (and husband Benjamin) Velasco
of San Diego, Calif., and Linda (and Jack) Barrick of Lincoln; four
grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded
in death by one son, two brothers and three sisters.
She was a member of
Holy Family Church in Lincoln and St. Catherine LaBourne in San
Diego, Calif.
Mrs. Sparks was an
accomplished pianist and accompanied the Harry Ryan Orchestra for
the first broadcast of WBBM radio, on Feb. 6, 1924, at the Atlas
family home in Lincoln.
Memorials
may be made to St. Clara's Manor or Community Action.
Click
here to send a note of condolence to the Sparks family.
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