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William 'Tom' Martin
William "Tom" Martin, 85, of Lincoln
died Monday, April 21, 2003, at 5:50 p.m. at Memorial Medical Center
in Springfield.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m.
Thursday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.
His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m.
Friday at First Baptist Church of Lincoln, with the Rev. Robert
Henderson officiating.
Burial, with military rites, will be in
New Union Cemetery.
Mr. Martin retired from farming in
Broadwell Township and Orin Township. He was also a retired foreman
from Myers Industries in Lincoln.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War
II.
He was born Aug. 22, 1917, in Lincoln
to Cal and Catherine Walters Martin. He married Phyllis Randall in
Shelbyville.
Surviving are his wife, of Lincoln; one
son, William Thomas (and Shayne) Martin II of Evansville, Ind.; two
grandchildren, William Thomas (and Fawna) Martin III of Newburg,
Ind., and Shayla Martin of Evansville, Ind.; one brother, Cal (and
Alyce) Martin of Lincoln; and one sister, Clarine (and Elmer E.)
Slayton of Edgewater, Fla.
He was preceded in death by his parents
and three sisters, Gertrude, Leona and Rosetta.
He was a member of First Baptist Church
of Lincoln, where he was a trustee and deacon.
He was a musician with the Lincoln
Ramblers band.
Memorials
may be made to the college fund established for his grandchildren.
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Joseph Aldendifer
Memorial services for Joseph R.
Aldendifer will be on Saturday at Holland and Barry Funeral Home in
Lincoln.
Visitation will begin at 2:30 p.m.,
with a service at 3:30 p.m. and burial to follow at Union Cemetery,
Lincoln.
Mr. Aldendifer died Nov. 8, 2002, in
Rancho Mirage, Calif.
He had been a military and commercial
pilot and president of the Mount Pulaski Telephone and Electric
Company.
He was born May 17, 1916, to Joseph R.
and Marguerite C. Aldendifer.
Surviving are his wife, Cynthia, of
Lincoln and Rancho Mirage, Calif.; three sons, Joseph R. Aldendifer
of Corona, Calif., James Aldendifer of South Bend, Ind., and Curtis
E. Aldendifer of Honolulu, Hawaii; a brother, James Aldendifer of
Lincoln; and a sister, Marianne Tucker of Naples, Fla.
He attended Central School in Lincoln;
St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis.; and Colorado
College, Colorado Springs, Colo., where he was in the class of 1939.
In 1940 he applied for flight training
with the U.S. Army Air Corps and began his training at Lindbergh
Field, San Diego, Calif., with the Ryan School of Aeronautics. He
completed flight training at Kelley Field, Texas, with the class of
1941.
He was assigned to the 95th Bomber
Group of the 8th Air Force at Harham, Suffolk, England. He served as
command pilot of a B-17 squadron and in that capacity was award the
Distinguished Flying Cross in June 1945.
Later in 1945, following his discharge,
he began his commercial flying career with Continental Airlines. He
retired from the airline in 1976.
Soon thereafter he returned to Lincoln
and assumed the role of president of the Mount Pulaski Telephone and
Electric Company. He held that position until 1991, when the company
was sold to the Rochester Telephone Company.
Memorials
may be made to the Wayne J. Schall Hospice of Lincoln.
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Joe Ott
Joe A. Ott, 72, of
Middletown died Monday, April 21, 2003, at 8:50 p.m. at St. John's
Hospice North in Springfield.
Following cremation
rites, there will be a memorial service at Holland and Barry Funeral
Home in Lincoln at 7 p.m. Friday. Alan Dean will officiate.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m.
Mr. Ott farmed in the
Middletown area from 1950 to 1998. He was also employed at Stetson
China Company from 1952 to 1957 and at R&H in Petersburg from 1978
to 1998.
He was born March 2,
1931, in Lincoln to Earl Gerald and Ruth Irene Ingram Ott. He
married Dorothy Pinney on Oct. 31, 1952, in Elkhart.
Surviving are his
wife, of Middletown; one son, William (and Teresa) Ott of
Middletown; one daughter, Marsha (and Boone) O'Donoghue of Lincoln;
six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two brothers, Earl
Frederick (and Donna) Ott of Fancy Prairie and Cecil William (and
Myra) Ott of Lincoln; and two sisters, Audrey Lucille (and Dean)
Bryson of Cornland and Helen Irene (and Howard) Burton of Essex.
Mr. Ott was a Corwin
Township trustee for a number of years.
He was of the
Presbyterian faith.
Memorials may be made to Middletown
Volunteer Firemen.
Iola Collier
Iola Collier, 93, of
Mount Pulaski died Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 8:30 a.m. at
Vonderlieth Living Center.
Her funeral was Wednesday
morning at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in
Mount Pulaski, with the Rev. Carol Andricks officiating. Visitation
preceded the service.
Burial was in
Mount Pulaski Cemetery.
Mrs. Collier worked
as a cook and on the assembly line at Stetson China in Lincoln.
She was born July 3,
1909, in Mount Pulaski to Harvey and Susanna Delaney Walker. She
married William "Bill" Collier in Bloomington on March 24, 1932. He
died Aug. 16, 1993.
She was also preceded
in death by her parents and two sisters.
She is survived by
many nieces and nephews.
She was a member of
Mount Pulaski United Methodist Church.
Memorials may be made to her church.
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Collier.
Reike Wibben
Reike S. Wibben, 87, of Emden died
Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 4:14 a.m. at Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital in Lincoln.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Hartsburg.
His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday at the church, with the Rev. David Russell officiating.
Burial will be in Bethel Cemetery,
rural Emden.
Mr. Wibben was a farmer.
He was born Sept. 22, 1915, at
Hartsburg to John W. and Maggie Ites Wibben. He married Virginia
Sank on June 15, 1941, in St. Louis, Mo.
Surviving are his wife, of Emden; one
daughter, Janet Groth of Emden; two sons, Jim (and Marge) Wibben of
Atlanta and Jeff Wibben of Emden; seven grandchildren; four
great-grandchildren; and one sister, Janette Coers of New Holland.
He was preceded in death by three
brothers and three sisters.
He was a member of St. John's Lutheran
Church in Hartsburg.
Memorials
may be made to his church.
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