Bernice Kohler

Bernice M. Kohler, 80, of DeWitt County Nursing Home in Hallsville, died at 10:15 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, 2000, at the nursing home.

A graveside committal of ashes will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2000, at New Union Cemetery in Lincoln. There is no visitation.

Mrs. Kohler was a homemaker and was a cook for many years at the Cottage Cafe in Lincoln.

She was born March 21, 1920, at Campbellsville, Ky., to Obie and Jessie May (Brockman) Spurling. She married Philip S. Kohler on Sept. 12, 1943, at St. Joseph, Mo. He survives.

Also surviving are one daughter, Dorothy Jean Spurling Krotz of Lincoln; one granddaughter, Tammi Deilkes of St. Petersburg, Fla.; three great-grandchildren, Aaron, Darin and Kristina Deilkes, all of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and three sisters, Lucille Mallinson and Geneva Ingram of Lincoln and Thelma Rehder of Keokuk, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Carl, Merlin and James Patrick Spurling; four sisters, Elsie Snow, Leola Bosley, Hazel Sapp and Margarite; and two granddaughters, Gina Marie Krotz and Pamela Jean Krotz.

She was of the Methodist faith.

 


Linda Black

Linda Black, 44, of Middletown died at 7:45 a.m. Monday, Aug. 21, 2000, in a truck accident on Interstates 80 and 39 in LaSalle County.

Funeral services were at 11 a.m. Friday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, with the Rev. Robert Henderson officiating.

Burial was in Irish Grove Cemetery, Middletown.

Visitation was from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Black was a homemaker.

She was born April 15, 1956, at Pana to Deneen and Betty (Stevenson) Wheat. She married Samuel Black on Nov. 7, 1988, at Moss Point, Miss.

Surviving are her husband, of Middletown; her mother, of Hartsburg; three sons, Shane (and Dawn) Wheat of Auburn, Jason Wheat of Middletown and Aaron Wheat of Middletown; two daughters, Chastity Decker of Hartsburg and Shelley Wheat of Middletown; two grandchildren; and three brothers, Chuck Wheat of Creve Coeur, Mo., David Wheat of Springfield and Larry Wheat of Loami.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Memorials may be made to the donor’s choice.

 

 


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Kara Blythe Klug

Kara A. Blythe Klug, 18, of Lincoln died at 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2000, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Holy Resurrection Church in Lincoln, with Father Gilbert Gendenberger officiating.

Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Lincoln.

Visitation was Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Holy Resurrection Church, 204 Pekin St. in Lincoln.

Mrs. Klug was born Sept. 27, 1981, in Lincoln to Charles William and Mary Jean (Sartoris) Blythe III. She married Jesse N. Klug on July 2, 2000, in Lincoln.

Surviving are her husband, Jesse, of Lincoln; her parents, of Lincoln; two sisters, Kyla (and Jeremy) Wasinger of Lincoln and Michelle (and Chris) Burdette of Lincoln; one brother, William Blythe of Lincoln; and her mother-in-law and father-in-law, David and Robin Klug of Lincoln.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents.

She was a member of Holy Resurrection Church in Lincoln.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research.

 

 

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