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Edward Butkovich
Edward R. Butkovich, 67, of Mount
Pulaski died Friday, Nov. 1, 2002. Pronouncement of death was at
5:16 p.m. at the Three Rivers
Hospital emergency room, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday in the gymnasium at Mount Pulaski High School. A prayer
service at 3:30 will precede the visitation.
The funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday at Holy Family Church in Lincoln, with Father Edward
Higgins and Father Eugene Kane officiating.
Burial will be in Mount Pulaski
Cemetery.
Holland and Barry Funeral Home,
Lincoln, is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Butkovich was a teacher and
basketball coach. His teams at Mount Pulaski High School won the
state tournament in 1976, placed fourth in 1977 and second in 1984.
He was born Aug. 3, 1935, in Canton to
Edward C. and Wilma Hezlep Butkovich. He married Patricia A. Wise on
June 21, 1958, in Canton.
Surviving are his wife, of Mount
Pulaski; two daughters, Julie (and husband Harvey) Horton of Sherman
and Cindy Butkovich-Harris (and husband Rick) of Maroa; and three
grandchildren, Ashley and Nicholas Horton of Sherman and Molly
Harris of Maroa.
Mr. Butkovich taught and coached at
Bath Balyki High School beginning in 1958. He then coached
basketball and taught at Mount Pulaski High School until he retired,
in 1996. At the time of his death, he was an assistant coach at
Lincoln College. He was also a member of the board of directors of
the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association
He was named the IBCA Coach of the Year
for 1976-77 and entered the IBCA Hall of Fame. He also received the
IBCA Championship Award.
He was chosen as District Coach of the
Year for the seasons 1974-75, 1975-76, 1979-80 and 1983-84.
He had also received the Western
Illinois University Alumni Achievement Award.
He was a Lincoln Courier Man of the
Month and received the Lincoln Courier Achievement Award.
He was named the Decatur Herald and
Review Coach of the Year for 1976 and also in 1984.
He was a loving husband, father,
grandfather and friend. He lived for two things in life: his family,
which was always first, and his love for the game of basketball. He
will be sadly missed by everyone he knew, because he was a special
kind of man.
Memorials
may be made to Mount Pulaski High School Boys Basketball Scholarship, Illinois
Basketball Coaches Association or Mount Pulaski Library Fund.
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Shawn
Smith
Shawn Smith, 32, of Waynesville,
formerly of Bloomington, died at 4:10 p.m. Saturday Nov. 2, 2002, at
St. John’s Hospital in Springfield.
Mr. Smith was cremated. There will be
no visitation.
A graveside service will be at 11 a.m.
Wednesday at Union Cemetery, Waynesville.
Quiram Funeral Home, Atlanta, is in
charge of arrangements.
Shawn Smith was born March 23, 1970, in
Peoria to Rodger and Dorothy Walker Smith.
Surviving
are his parents, of Waynesville; his maternal grandmother, Hattie
Stone of Wapella; his paternal grandmother, Berline Smith of
Waynesville; and two brothers, Andy Smith of Bloomington and Jason
Smith of Atlanta.
Ida ‘Babe’ Baker
Ida ‘Babe’ Baker, 90, of Lincoln died at 10:50 p.m. Thursday, Oct.
31, 2002, at Skyview Nursing Home in Jacksonville.
A graveside service
will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Lincoln, with
Father Thomas Taylor officiating.
There will be no
visitation.
Arrangements are
being handled by Kerrigan-Peasley Funeral Home in Lincoln.
Mrs. Baker farmed in
rural Lincoln with her husband.
She was born Jan. 7,
1912, in Lincoln to William and Emma Dady Quinn. She married Grover
C. Baker in Chicago on Sept. 6, 1940. He died Jan. 20, 1972.
Mrs. Baker was a member of Holy Family
Church and the Eagles Auxiliary.
Click here to send a note on the death of Mrs. Ida Baker.
Nancy Dabbs
Nancy C. Dabbs, 58, of Lincoln died at
2:05 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002, at Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital.
A graveside service was at 11 a.m.
Tuesday at Elkhart Cemetery, with the Rev. Tony Shuff officiating.
There is no visitation.
Kerrigan-Peasley Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
She was born April 2,
1944, in Lincoln to Russell and Ruby Hunter Fuiten. She married John
Cleve Dabbs on June 5, 1961. He died Aug. 21, 1988.
Surviving are four
sons, John R. Dabbs of Lincoln, Kevin Dabbs of Mason City, David
Dabbs of Springfield and Russell Dabbs of Fenton, Mo.; two
daughters, Tammy Dabbs of St. Louis, Mo., and Debra Dabbs of
Oklahoma; 12 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and two brothers,
Donald Fuiten and Howard Fuiten, both of Lincoln.
Mrs. Dabbs was a member of New Wine
Fellowship.
Click here to send a note of condolence to the Dabbs
family.
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