Wilford Scroggin
Wilford K. Scroggin Jr., 87, of Mount
Pulaski died Thursday (June 12, 2003) at 9:35 a.m. at Abraham
Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m.
Tuesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski.
The rosary will be recited at 3:30 p.m.
His funeral will be at 10 a.m.
Wednesday at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Mount Pulaski, with
Father Thomas Shaw officiating.
Burial, with military rites, will be in
Steenbergen Cemetery, Mount Pulaski.
Mr. Scroggin was a retired farmer and a
fisherman.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to
1945.
He was born Oct. 8, 1915, at Mount
Pulaski to Wilford K. and Lois Huck Scroggin Sr. He married Margaret
Schick in Elkhart on Aug. 1, 1945.
Survivors are his wife; one son, Karl
Scroggin of Springfield; one daughter, Diane Scroggin (and Richard
Hackett) of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and one brother, Tom (and Lois)
Scroggin of Mount Pulaski.
He was preceded in death by one son,
Michael, and one daughter, Nora.
He was a member of Mount Pulaski VFW.
He served on the board of the Farmer's Bank of Mount Pulaski and on
the Steenbergen Cemetery board.
He was a member of St. Thomas Aquinas
Catholic Church of Mount Pulaski, to which memorials may be made.
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Scroggin family.
Vincent Anderson
Vincent Edman Anderson, 87, of Latham died Wednesday (June 11, 2003)
at 11:20 p.m. at Vonderlieth Living Center, Mount Pulaski.
Visitation on Friday evening and his funeral on Saturday morning
were at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in
Mount Pulaski. The Rev. Marvin Mungle officiated at the service.
Burial is in Two Mile Grove Cemetery, rural Latham.
Mr.
Anderson was employed in automotive sales and insurance.
He
was born July 21, 1915, at Rice Lake, Wis., to Peter and Elsie Edman
Anderson. He married Loraine Floss in Seattle, Wash. Later he
married Rose Mary Williams, and she preceded him in death. He
married Pauline Lyon in Latham on March 20, 1970.
Surviving are his wife, Pauline Anderson of Latham; one son, Jerry
Anderson of Seattle, Wash.; two daughters, Susie (and John)
Saccameno of Roselle and Kathy (and Tom) Fleming of Alton; one
stepdaughter, Stephanie Milligan of Chicago; two stepsons, Jeff Lyon
of Decatur and Ron Lyon of Maroa; 10 grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
He
was also preceded in death by one daughter and three sisters.
He
was a member of Latham Baptist Church.
Memorials may be made
to his church or to Vonderlieth Living Center.
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Anderson family.
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Virginia Embree
Virginia H. Embree,
79, of Hartsburg died Thursday (June 12, 2003) at 5:55 a.m. at the
Christian Village in Lincoln.
Visitation will be
from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in
Lincoln.
Her funeral will be
at 2 p.m. Monday at Lincoln Christian Church, with Tom Gerdts
officiating.
Burial will be in
Hartsburg Union Cemetery.
Mrs. Embree was a
homemaker, farmed with her husband and was a registered nurse.
Before she retired, she was head nurse of the training department at
Lincoln Developmental Center.
She was born May 17,
1924, in Hopewell, Va., to Leonard Clifton and Darah Salter Parsons.
She married Estel Embree on July 3, 1968, in Lincoln.
Surviving are her
husband, of Hartsburg; her mother, of Morehead City, N.C.; two
stepdaughters, Jenny Lou (and Stanley) Boughan of Lincoln and
Priscilla (and Dean) Rademaker of Springfield; 10 stepgrandchildren;
three brothers, Preston (and Nina) Parsons of Randleman, N.C.,
William Bryan Parsons of Crozet, Va., and James C. (and Vicki)
Parsons of Craven County, N.C.; and four sisters, Reba P. Phibbs of
Highpoint, N.C., Christine P. (and Doug) Holland of Raleigh, N.C.,
Ida P. (and Edfred) Gaskill of Morehead City, N.C., and JoAnne P.
(and Arthur) Lewis of Moreland City, N.C.
She was preceded in
death by her father.
She was a member of
Lincoln Christian Church and a 50-year P.E.O. member.
She earned a
bachelor's degree in nursing and received her master's degree from
Florida State University. She also had a teaching certificate for
nurses.
Memorials may be made to the American
Cancer Society.
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