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Laura Schilling
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[December
23, 2010]
LINCOLN -- Laura Alice Schilling, 88,
of Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Lincoln, died Monday, Dec. 20,
2010, at 2:10 p.m. at Green Hills Health and Rehab Center in
Nashville.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28, at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln. Her funeral will be
at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29, at the funeral home, with the Rev.
Robert Baker officiating. |
Burial will be in Harmony Cemetery, Beason. Mrs.
Schilling was a retired state employee and
housewife. She served as site interpreter and
researcher at the Postville and Mount Pulaski
courthouses. As a Lincoln retail businesswoman, she
worked at the Perk-Up and managed Erik Kent, both on
the square. She served for 12 years on the Logan
County Board.
She was born Sept. 22, 1922, at Mitchell Dam,
Ala. Her parents were Earl W. and Nancy Annie Jones
Smith. She married John W. Schilling on June 6,
1941. He preceded her in death in May 1989.
She is survived by two daughters, Nancy Christina
Davis of Nashville, Tenn., and Tamra Lorraine Ince of
Conowingo, Md.; and two granddaughters, Deborah
Elaine and Abigail Elizabeth Ince of Conowingo, Md.
She was also preceded in death by an infant son,
John Wesley Schilling III; three brothers, Earl, Art
and Bill Smith; one sister, Mae Nell Lowery; and a
son-in-law, Barry M. Davis.
She was a member of Beason United Methodist
Church and the United Methodist Women. She was also
a member of the American Business Women's
Association and the Logan County Herb Guild. |
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As a county board member from 1986 to 1998, she
served on airport and farm, animal control, and
liquor committees. As the first to chair the solid
waste committee, she ultimately traveled to France
to view their advanced methods of waste management.
Along with her hobbies of needlework, sewing,
gardening and hat making, in her early years she
loved being a hair style model for her brother Art,
a cosmetologist.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer
Society, Beason United Methodist Church or Beason
Fire Department.
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