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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Mary E. "Liz"
Spurling, 80, of Lincoln died at 10:47 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002,
at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.