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Adam F. Bock

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[September 15, 2015]  LINCOLN - Adam F. Bock, 98, of Lincoln passed away at 10:20 p.m. September 6, 2015 at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Lincoln.

Visitation: None

Service: 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 19, 2015 at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home, Lincoln .

Funeral home: Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln   

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Adam F. Bock, 98, of Lincoln passed away at 10:20 p.m. September 6, 2015 at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Lincoln.

Adam Frederick Bock, fifth son of John Henry and Wilhelmina Awe Bock, was born September 8, 1916, in Oran Township, Logan County. He and his brothers, Henry, Walter, William, and Carl, with their sister Hilda, grew up on the family farm four miles north of Beason, Logan County. Adam was confirmed in the St. John Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1931, at Lincoln, attended the Mt. Zion County School and graduated from the Beason High School in 1933, as the Class salutatorian. During W.W. II, he served with the 11th Army Depot Group with the 8th and 15th Army Air Corps as a Master Sergeant in England, Africa, Sicily and Italy, from January 2, 1942 to September 30, 1945.

On June 10, 1945, Adam Bock and Miriam Otte were married in Lincoln. She preceded him in death April 15, 2012. He is survived by many nieces and nephews.

Adam Bock, served on the County Farm Bureau Board , the County Extension Council and helped promote the Soil Bank Plan for Agriculture, and promoted 4-H and County Fair activities, helped to organize the Logan Agriculture Toastmasters Club in 1953. He served in its various offices and in 1968 served as Governor of District 8 and on the National board of Toastmasters International, 1971-1973. He is a member of the Atlanta American Legion Post #341, guided the project of building the new $1,250,000 Logan County Safety Complex in Lincoln. He and his brother, Walter, were grain and livestock farmers all their lives until they retired in 1985.

 

Adam made an Anatomical Gift Request to Mayo Clinic. Memorial services for Adam will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 19, 2015 at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home, Lincoln with Rev. Kenneth D. Kramer officiating. There is no visitation.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given in Adam’s name to St. John United Church of Christ or donor’s choice. A burial at New Union Cemetery will be at a later date, where full military rites will be accorded.

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