Robert Walker
Robert L. Walker, 79,
of Lincoln died at 2:48 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002, at St. John’s
Hospital in Springfield.
His funeral will be
at 2 p.m. Friday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln,
with the Rev. Jame Hahs officiating. Visitation will be from noon
until the service time.
Burial will be in
Zion Cemetery, Lincoln.
Mr. Walker retired
from Hoagland Transfer, Lincoln. He also worked for Cyrulik Concrete
in Clinton.
He was a U.S. Army
veteran of World War II.
He was born May 20,
1923, in Peoria to Louis and Helen Scheid Walker. He married Betty
J. Sherwood on Jan. 11, 1947, in Clarksdale, Miss. She died Feb. 7,
2001.
Surviving are two
daughters, Suzette Hedenberg of Decatur and Shelley Walker of Blue
Mound; three grandsons, David Hedenberg of Decatur and Josh and
Robert Fuller of Blue Mound; one great-granddaughter, Faith Ann
Fuller of Pana; two sisters, Pat Black of Lincoln and Jane Thomas of
Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and a special friend, Jean Berglin of Lincoln.
He was of the
Presbyterian faith.
Memorials may be made to the donor’s
choice.
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Roland Sandel
Roland
D. Sandel, 80, of Lincoln died Thursday, Nov. 28, 2002, at his home.
His funeral was Monday morning at Faith
Lutheran Church of Lincoln. The Rev. Mark Peters officiated at the
service.
Burial was in Mount Pulaski Cemetery.
Sandel was retired from grain and beef
farming in East Lincoln Township.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War
II.
He was born Aug. 15, 1922, in Lincoln
to William and Dora Strampp Sandel. He married Angelina Brummer on
June 20, 1948, in Lincoln. She survives.
Also surviving are one daughter, Mary
Kathleen Flanagan of Greeley, Colo.; two sons, David (and Margaret)
Sandel of Urbana and John (and Karen) Sandel of Lincoln; nine
grandchildren; one brother, Merlin (and Gloria) Sandel of
Knightsdale, N.C.; and two sisters, Vera (and Donald) Brown of
Peoria and Eugenia (and Bob) Hilton of Seattle, Wash.
He was a charter member of Faith
Lutheran Church, where he served as president, treasurer and elder.
He also served as treasurer of AAL Branch 7554 and was involved in
Kogudus activities. He was a member of Logan County Farm Bureau,
Christian Farmers, the Gideons and LinPro Square Dancers.
He was a graduate of Beason High
School, Lincoln College and the University of Illinois.
He enlisted in the Army in 1943 and
served as a cryptographer in the Signal Corps with MacArthur’s
headquarters in Tokyo, Japan during the war. He was honorably
discharged in January 1946.
He was an auditor for the Illinois
Agricultural Association and assistant manager of Rich Law Service
Co. in Lawrence County until he began dairy farming, in which he was
engaged from 1951 to 1966. He also prepared income tax returns for
20 years.
Memorials may be made to Faith Lutheran
Church, Kogudus Retreat Center or
Hospice Care of Illinois.
(This
obituary, originally posted Nov. 29, is repeated to include the
picture.)
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