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A. Marie Detmers

A. Marie Detmers, 91, of Emden died at 1 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, 2002, at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Emden.

Her funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church, with the Rev. Frank Peiper officiating.

Burial will be in Hartsburg Union Cemetery.

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Memorials may be made to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Emden.

Click here to send a note of condolence to the Detmers family.


Thomas Murray

Thomas J. Murray, 78, of Lincoln died at 10:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, 2002, at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at Kerrigan Funeral Home in Lincoln. The rosary will be recited at 4 p.m., and the wake service will be at 6:45 p.m. Monday.

The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Family Church in Lincoln, with Monsignor Edward Higgins and the Rev. Thomas Taylor officiating.

Burial, with military rites, will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Lincoln.

Murray was a Lincoln rural mail carrier for 30 years. He retired in 1979. He was an independent accountant and a former West Lincoln Township assessor.

He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, in which he served in the China-Burma Theater. He also served in the Korean War.

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Memorials may be made to the Thomas J. Murray Scholarship Fund, the rebuilding fund for American Legion Post 263 in Lincoln or St. Jude Hospital Midwest Affiliate.

 

 

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Duane ‘Bud’ Near

Duane "Bud" Kay Near, 64, of Lincoln, formerly of Emden, died at 3:05 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, 2002, at his home.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.

His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, with Don Green officiating.

Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery, rural San Jose.

Near was a retired painter.

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Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

Click here to send a note of condolence to the Near family.


John Hawkins

John R. Hawkins, 83, of Atlanta died at 11:45 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, 2002, at BroMenn Regional Medical Center in Normal.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Quiram Funeral Home in Atlanta, with Tony Billingsley officiating.

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

Hawkins was a self-employed mechanic. He had owned and operated John’s Place in Atlanta for 18 years.

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Memorial contributions may be made to the Atlanta Rescue Squad.

 

 

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