John "Jack" Dugan

John R. "Jack" Dugan, 86, of Lincoln died at 4:36 p.m. Saturday, March 4, 2000, at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.

Funeral services will be 9:30 a.m.Tuesday, March 7, at Holy Family Church in Lincoln, with the Rev. Kenneth Hummel officiating.

Burial will be at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Lincoln.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Kerrigan Funeral Home, with the rosary and wake service at 5 p.m. and the Eagles ritual at 7:45 p.m.

Dugan was a brick mason. He worked out of Union Local 32 in Lincoln and retired in 1979.

He was born April 26, 1913, in Lincoln, a son of John T. and Bertha (Dady) Dugan. He married Edith Mae Green Dec. 12, 1936, at Lincoln. She died Aug. 31, 1941. He married Susan Boyer Feb. 7, 1944, in Rock Island. She survives, in Lincoln.

Also surviving are one daughter, Joyce (and Abe) Vannoy of Lincoln; three sons, Mike Dugan and Pat (and Vicki) Dugan, all of Lincoln, and Dan (and Connie) Dugan of Atlanta; 14 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Dorothy Sparks of Middletown.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, one son, several brothers and sisters, one grandson and two great-grandchildren.

He was a member of Holy Family Church and of the Eagles Lodge in Lincoln. He had been a business agent for the former Union Local 32, Lincoln.

Memorials may be made for leukemia research at SIU School of Medicine in Springfield.

 

 

Conrad B. Ruff

Conrad B. Ruff, 94, formerly of Lincoln, died on March 2, 2000, at Apple Valley Care Center in Apple Valley, Calif..

The funeral service will be at Zion Lutheran Church, Lincoln, on Wednesday, March 8, at 10:30 a.m.  The Rev. William Adam will officiate.

Burial will be at Zion Cemetery, Lincoln.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.

Ruff retired in 1970 as a security officer for Eaton Corporation in Lincoln.

He was born to Gustav and Matilda (Diekow) Ruff in Logan County on July 12, 1905.  He married Mildred L. Rohlfs in Lincoln Feb. 23, 1938.  She died Oct. 18, 1993.

Ruff is survived by a son, Thomas W. Ruff of Phelan, Calif.; a sister, Montella McClure of Lincoln; and two grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, two sisters, and his wife.

He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln.

Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 

 

 

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