Olivia Toft

Olivia Anne Toft, 8 months, of Lincoln died Sunday, July 2, 2000, at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

A memorial service will be Saturday, July 8, at 2 p.m. at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, with Tim Searby officiating.

Visitation will be one hour before the service at the funeral home.

The baby, a daughter of Jonathan and Ann (Hoagland) Toft, was born Oct. 19, 1999, in Lincoln.

Surviving are her parents, of Lincoln; one sister, Rhiannon Hoagland of Lincoln; two brothers, Jonathan and Zachery Toft of Lincoln; her maternal grandparents, Robert and Helen Hoagland of Lincoln; paternal grandmother Joanne Toft of Lincoln; maternal great-grandmother Virgie Van Fossan of Lincoln; and maternal great-great-grandmother Goldie Moseng of Meridian, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, James Toft.

Memorials may be made to Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago or to the Ronald McDonald House.

 


Roberta Parks

Roberta Cluck Cowgur Parks, 80, of Beason, died at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, July 1, 2000, at Carle Hospital in Urbana.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 4, 2000, at Holland & Barry Funeral Home in Lincoln, with the Rev. Larry Maffett officiating.

A committal service will be Tuesday afternoon at the Ebenezer Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Galatia, and burial will follow at Ebenezer Cemetery, Galatia.

Mrs. Parks was head of dietary services for the Beason Community School system for 25 years.

She was born Oct. 1, 1919, at Herrin, a daughter of Arthur L. and Pearle (Johnson) Cluck. She married Lilburn Cowgur in Missouri on Aug. 30, 1941. He died Dec. 15, 1974. She married Paul Eugene Parks at Beason in August 1977. He died Jan. 27, 1990.

Surviving are one son, Lawrence F. Cowgur of Mahomet; one daughter, Mrs. Catherine Randolph of Magee, Miss.; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three sisters, Flossie Anderson of Thompsonville, Carrie Ogden of Zeigler and Geraldine Galbraith of Galatia; and one brother, Donald Cluck of Galatia.

She was preceded in death by one sister, Audrey Wright, and one brother, Forrest Cluck.

She was a member of the Beason United Methodist Church.

Memorials may be made to her church.

 

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Robert Salyers

Robert H. Salyers, 78, of Lincoln died at 2:01 a.m. Sunday, July 2, 2000, at St. John’s Hospice in Springfield.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 6, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.

Burial will be in Zion Cemetery, Lincoln.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home in Lincoln.

Salyers was a shift foreman at PPG Industries in Lincoln.

He served with the Army Air Corps in World War II.

He was born Dec. 10, 1921, in Lincoln, a son of Wylie and Effie Salyers. He married Linda Elliott in Lincoln on Dec. 29, 1948.

Surviving are one son, Gary (and Barbara) Salyers of Wheaton, and three grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife and several brothers and sisters.

Memorials may be made to the World War II Veterans Memorial Fund.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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