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Frances
Minton
Frances
E. Minton, 97, of Lincoln, formerly of Heyworth and Bloomington,
died at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001, at the Christian Village
in Lincoln.
A
memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, at the Christian
Village. Larry Simonson will officiate. Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Lincoln is in charge of arrangements.
Burial will be in Heyworth Cemetery.
There
is no visitation.
Miss
Minton taught grade school for 44 years, including 38 years as a
first-grade teacher at Raymond School, Bloomington.
She
was born Dec. 3, 1903, in Heyworth to Frank and Martha Tibbs Minton.
She
was the last of her immediate family. A brother, Philip Minton,
preceded her in death.
She
was a member of Eastview Christian Church, Bloomington.
She
graduated from Illinois State University in 1944 with a bachelor’s
degree and from the University of Illinois in 1948 with a master’s
degree. She was a member of Kappa Delta Pi national honorary
society.
Memorials
may be made to Christian Village of Lincoln.
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Robert
Lee Sr.
Robert
E. Lee Sr., 76, of Lincoln died at 9:36 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27,
2001, at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
His
funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Lincoln, with the Rev. Mark Carnahan officiating.
Burial
will be in Zion Cemetery, Lincoln.
Visitation
will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Lee
retired in 1987 from Tom Ashley Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, where he had
worked as a mechanic.
He
was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II.
He
was born Oct. 1, 1925, in Lincoln to William and Pansy Pearl McCray
Lee. He married Lucille Petro on Oct 2, 1980, in Lincoln. She
survives.
Also
surviving are four sons, Gary (and wife Kay) Constant of Lake Fork,
Rob (and Debby) Lee of Middletown, Rick (and Lisa) Lee of Lincoln
and Mike Lee of Lincoln; four daughters, Connie (and John) Buckner
of Lake Fork, Debby (and Scott) Gray of Lincoln, Kathy (and Larry)
Taylor of Dareville, Ky., and Ronele (and Lyle) Benedict of Lincoln;
one stepson, Gary Petro of Lincoln; four stepdaughters, Rose (and
Val) Moore, Nancy Lahr, Debby (and Glen) McKay, all of Lincoln, and
Michelle (and Byron) Welt of Springfield; 14 grandchildren and six
stepgrandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one brother, Walter Lee
of Lincoln; and four sisters, Hazel Hickey, Loretta Buchholz and
Leona Sherrer of Lincoln, and Marilyn Lolling of Hartsburg.
He
was also preceded in death by three brothers.
He
was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln and the Lincoln VFW.
Memorials
may be made to his church.
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