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Eileen Huelskoetter

[JAN. 22, 2007]  BLOOMINGTON -- Eileen J. Huelskoetter, 80, formerly of Lincoln, died Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, at 6:20 p.m. at Martin  Health Center.

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

Family and friends will meet at Zion Lutheran Church in Chestnut at 9 a.m. Thursday for a graveside service at Laenna Cemetery, Chestnut.

Following the graveside service, there will be a service at 11 a.m. Thursday at Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln, with the Rev. Phillip Kaufman and the Rev. Mark Thompson officiating.

Mrs. Huelskoetter was a homemaker and bookkeeper on the family farm in Beason.

She was born May 19, 1926, in Chestnut to Henry and Hilma Schaffenacker Dierker. She married Albert Huelskoetter on Jan. 9, 1949, in Chestnut.

She is survived by her husband, "Al," of Bloomington; two sons, Lynn (and Chris) Huelskoetter of Boston, Mass., and Larry (and Vicki) Huelskoetter of Beason; two daughters, Karen Huelskoetter of Chicago and Kenda (and Joe) Jones of Beason; one brother, Kenneth Dierker of Chestnut; one sister, Dorothy Shaffer of Marshall, Mich.; and seven grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and one sister

She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Normal and formerly a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln. She had been organist at Zion and at Faith Lutheran Church in Lincoln.

Memorials may be made to the building fund of Christ Lutheran Church in Normal, the building fund of Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln or to Faith Lutheran Church in Lincoln.

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