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Eschol Gates Jr.
Eschol Nelson Gates Jr., 88, of Mason City died at 5:52 p.m. Friday,
May 24, 2002, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria.
His funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, at Mason City United
Methodist Church, with the Rev. Bruce Bolin Ghitalla officiating.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. at the church.
Burial will be in Swan Lake Memory Gardens, Peoria.
Hurley Funeral Home of Mason City is in charge of arrangements.
Gates taught for 22 years in schools in Mason City and Delavan. He
also sold Country Companies Insurance until he retired in 1981.
He
was a U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II. He was stationed in
the southwest Pacific with the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron.
He
was born Nov. 6, 1913, in Champaign to Eschol Nelson and Alice Lewis
Gates. He married Juanita M. Foster on Dec. 21, 1940, in Mahomet.
Surviving are his wife, of Mason City; one daughter, Roberta (and
Roger) Lumberry of Peoria; two grandchildren, Jonell Madden of Des
Plaines and Kathryn Lumberry of Peoria; two great-grandchildren,
Lauren and Emily Madden of Des Plaines; three brothers, Glen Gates
of Bloomfield, Ind., Orville Gates of Monticello and Phillip Gates
of Champaign; and three sisters, Irene Phillippi and Mary Kimes,
both of Champaign, and Alice McKibbin of Springfield.
He
was a member of Mason City American Legion Jackson Keen Post 496 and
Mason City United Methodist Church.
He
received his master’s degree from the University of Illinois in
Champaign.
Memorials may be made
to Mason City United Methodist Church or Mason City Area Library
Foundation.
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Margaret Newberry
Margaret J. Newberry, 83, of Lincoln died at 3:25 a.m. Saturday, May
25, 2002, at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 29, at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, followed by an 11
a.m. service officiated by Tom Gerdts.
Burial will be in New Union Cemetery, Lincoln.
Mrs. Newberry had been a line worker at Lehn & Fink.
She was born May 26, 1918, in Hurlbut Township to Charles H. and
Jessie Mae De Frates Sloan. She married Edward L. Newberry on May
27, 1939, in Lincoln. He died April 7, 1998.
Surviving are two brothers, Stephen "Bud" Sloan of Hartsburg and
Charles H. Sloan of Lincoln; four sisters, Gladys Aper, Hope
Klockenga, Evelyn Logan and Helen Singley, all of Lincoln; and
several nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by one son, Gary Lynn, one sister and
an infant brother.
She was a member of Lincoln Christian Church.
Memorials may be made
to her church or to Hospice of Central Illinois.
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