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Henry Robert Koke
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[December
03, 2007]
Henry
Robert "Bob" Koke, 79, of Lincoln died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, at Abraham
Lincoln Memorial Hospital. |
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Visitation is from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday at Lincoln
Christian Church. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday at the church. Burial will be in Union
Cemetery.
Holland Barry and Bennett Funeral Home is
handling arrangements.
Mr. Koke retired from Lincoln Developmental
Center in 1991 after 36 years as a radiologic
technician.
He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to
1955.
He was born April 22, 1928, in Sangamon County to
Henry E. and Tressie Taylor Koke. He married Ann
Kurth on Aug. 3, 1958, at Lincoln Christian Church.
He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Carol
Meyer of Roselle; one son, Mike Koke of Lincoln; one
brother, Chuck Koke of Springfield; two sisters,
Dorothy Hughes of Springfield and Helen Miers of
Fallon, Nev.; four grandsons; and two
great-granddaughters. |
He was a member of Lincoln Christian Church, where
he served as a deacon and a junior high Sunday
school teacher for several years. He was a member of
the Beacon class at the church.
Memorials may be made to his church, the American
Heart Foundation or National Kidney Foundation.
Click here to send a note of condolence to the Koke
family.
(Information added Dec. 17 to complete the obituary.) |
