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Evelyn Begolka

[June 20, 2009]  Evelyn M. Begolka, 80, of Lincoln, died Friday, June 19, 2009, at 3:30 a.m. at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.

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

Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. John United Church of Christ, with the Rev. Richard Reinwald officiating.

Burial will be in New Union Cemetery.

Mrs. Begolka was a homemaker.

She was born April 21, 1929, in Berlin Center, Ohio, to Charles and Blanche Wilson Coleman. She married Raymond G. Begolka on Dec. 4, 1955, in Tampa, Fla. He died Jan. 22, 2004.

She is survived by one daughter, Darlene Begolka of Lincoln; one son, Donald Begolka of Lincoln; one sister, Margaret (and Tom) Eimer of Lincoln; one sister-in-law, Vi Creed of Estreo, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews

She was also preceded in death by three stepbrothers and one stepsister.

She was a member of St. John United Church of Christ, where she was a Sunday school teacher and member of the UCC council, bell choir and charity guild.

She was also a member of Lincoln's Logan County Arts and Crafts Guild, Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, Logan County Farm Bureau Women's Committee, Women's Home Extension, Logan County 4-H and a Girl Scout leader.

She was Courier Citizen of the Year in 1984.

Memorials may be made to St. John United Church of Christ.

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