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Martha
Cornell
Martha
E. Cornell, 89, of Lincoln died at 8:45 a.m. Monday, Feb. 19, 2001,
at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Funeral
services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Lincoln, with Pastor Darrel Malcom and Dr. Gregory
Widener officiating.
Burial
will be in Lucas Chapel Cemetery, rural Lincoln.
Visitation
will be Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs.
Cornell was a homemaker.
She
was born March 9, 1911, in Jackson County, Mo., to John T. and Hulda
O. (Grund) Nilson. She married Floyd O. Cornell on June 16, 1945, in
Kansas City, Mo. He died June 8, 1989.
Surviving
are three daughters, Karen (Darrel) Malcom of Carol Stream, Nancy
Ward of Petersburg and Carol (Robert) Norton of Springfield; one
sister-in-law, Margaret Nilson of Oregon; eight grandchildren; 16
great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She
was preceded in death by her parents, husband and two brothers, John
and Carl Nilson.
She
was a member of Jefferson Street Christian Church in Lincoln and a
founding member of West Side Christian Church in Columbia, Mo.
Memorials
may be made to Christian Village or the Jefferson Street Christian
Church.
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Gerald
Fargusson
Gerald
L. Fargusson, 82, of Lincoln died at 9:55 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19,
2001, at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Funeral
services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Lincoln, with Tom Gerdts and Marion Henderson
officiating.
Burial,
with military rites, will be in Old Union Cemetery, Lincoln.
Visitation
will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Fargusson
retired from Lincoln Christian College as head of the Christian
Education Department.
He
was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.
He
was born Sept. 14, 1918, in Macomb to Everette and Zola (Huff)
Fargusson. He married Frances Elizabeth Peterson on Dec. 27, 1940,
in Mount Vernon, Iowa. She died Jan. 5, 1994.
Surviving
are two sons, Paul Glenn (Karen) Fargusson of Springfield and Ronald
Eugene (Judy) Fargusson of Springfield; one daughter, Marjorie
"Trudy" Copeland of Lincoln; nine grandchildren; eight
great-grandchildren; one brother, Kyron Fargusson of Sciota; and
three sisters, Glenola Jones and Vildra Mansir of Macomb and Kloris
Promission of Bushnell.
He
was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; one son, Jerry; and
one sister, Wava Poll Edmonds.
Fargussson
was founder of Christian Amateur Radio Fellowship and was known as
"Mr. Christian Education." He was a member of Lincoln
Christian Church.
Memorials
may be made to his church or Lincoln Christian College.
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