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Leonard
Key
Leonard
Key, 92, of Lincoln, formerly of Shumway, died Monday, Feb. 19,
2001.
A
memorial service will be at Beecher City Church of Christ on Friday,
Feb. 23, at 2 p.m., with visitation one hour before the service. The
Searby Funeral Home of DuQuoin is in charge of arrangements.
Key
was a metal pattern maker at the J.I. Case Co. in Rockford for 22
years before taking up farming in Shumway in 1947.
The
sixth son of Samuel Norman and Kate Ellen (Belk) Key, he was born in
Sheffield, England, on March 16, 1908. The family came to the United
States in 1910 and settled in Rockford.
He
married Virginia Storm on Feb. 7, 1931. They had two daughters who
survive: Judy (Bruce) Parmenter of Lincoln and Carolyn Bilbrey of
Oceola, Ind.
Also
surviving are three brothers, Lester of Davis, Cy of Rockford and
Francis of California; and two sisters, Betsy of Oregon and Libby of
Davis.
His
parents, wife, eight brothers and one sister preceded him in death.
Key
helped organize a labor union at Case in 1937 and served as
recording secretary and president of that organization.
He
served on the Rockford school board for two years, was elected town
clerk of Summit Township in Effingham County for four years, and was
a director of the Federal Land Bank of Effingham for over 19 years,
serving as president in 1953.
He
won recognition several times for his contour farming and soil
management.
He
was a member of the Beecher City Church of Christ and was a member
of the board of elders and deacons of the church for 40 years. He
served as both chairman and vice chairman of that board and also
served on the building committee.
Memorials
may be made to Beecher City Church of Christ Building Fund.
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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