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Virgil Pinkley

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[September 10, 2009]  Virgil L. Pinkley, 92, of Lincoln, died Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, at 4:05 p.m. at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Friday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Dennis Shaw officiating.

Burial will be in Zion Cemetery.

Mr. Pinkley was a retired farmer and had worked at Lincoln Bottle Factory.

He was born Feb. 27, 1917, at Elkland, Mo., to Joseph Christopher and Nellie Gann Pinkley. He married Naomi F. Cline on Nov. 30, 1946, at Fort Scott, Kan.

He is survived by his wife, of Lincoln; his children, Howard D. Pinkley of Lincoln, Richard L. (and Donna) Pinkley of Bloomington, David R. Pinkley of Lincoln, Carl D. (and Diana) Pinkley of Mount Pulaski, Gary L. (and Fern) Pinkley of Springfield, Steven L. Pinkley of Springfield, Linda L. Geitros of Lincoln, Betty A. Pinkley of Lincoln, Juanita K. (and Mike) Buttell of Lincoln and Patricia J. Brooks of Springfield, Mo.; two brothers, Orville (and Dessie) Pinkley of Elkland, Mo., and Joseph (and Helen) Pinkley of Olathe, Kan.; four sisters, Virginia Boraniar of Lenexa, Kan., Vinnie Brown of Buffalo, Mo., Lorene Harper of Zanesville, Ohio, and Geneva (and George) Medlan of Olathe, Kan.; 16 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

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Four brothers preceded him in death.

Memorials may be made to the Virgil Pinkley Memorial Fund.

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