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Robert Downey "Tom" Wertheim

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[January 17, 2017]  ATLANTA - Robert Downey "Tom" Wertheim, 75, of Atlanta, passed away at 12:35 p.m. on Monday, January 2, 2017, at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal.

Visitation:  Friday, January 6, 2017, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Atlanta Christian Church.

Masonic Rites will be accorded at 7:00 p.m.

Service: Saturday, January 7, at 11 a.m. at the church

Funeral home:  Quiram Peasley Funeral Home, Atlanta

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Robert Downey "Tom" Wertheim, 75, of Atlanta, passed away at 12:35 p.m. on Monday, January 2, 2017, at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal.

Visitation will be Friday, January 6, 2017, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Atlanta Christian Church. Masonic Rites will be accorded at 7:00 p.m.

Memorial services for Mr. Wertheim will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. at the Atlanta Christian Church. Mr. Maurice Stribling will officiate.

Burial will be at a later date. Cremation Rites have been accorded.

Robert Downey Wertheim was born November 30, 1941, in Lincoln, the son of Robert "Bob" Glenn and Nancy Hoblit Wertheim. He married Connie Renfrow on July 8, 1966 at the Eminence Christian Church in rural Atlanta. She survives.

Tom is also survived by their children: Amy Wertheim of Atlanta, Greg Wertheim of Normal, and Julie (Erin) Mulliken of Bloomington; three grandchildren: Nicholas Flach, Annika Wertheim, and Tatum Mulliken; two sisters: Lynd Corley of Glenview, Ill., and Elizabeth (Ed) Lenz of East Peoria.

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He was preceded in death by his parents, and one sister: Frances Wertheim, M.D.

Tom was owner of the R.G.W. Candy Company in Atlanta. He was a graduate of Atlanta High School and attended the University of Illinois Urbana. He had farmed in the rural Atlanta area and worked for the Atlanta Township road commissioner. Tom was a member of Atlanta Masonic Lodge #165 and is a past Master. He was a member of the Atlanta Christian Church where he had served as a Deacon.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Atlanta Christian Church.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted with Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home of Atlanta.

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