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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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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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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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