Charles Parr
Charles Parr, 78, of Mason City died at 8:19 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5,
2002, at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Hurley Funeral Home,
603 E. Chestnut in Mason City.
The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the United Methodist
Church of Mason City, with the Rev. Bruce Bolin-Ghitalla and Nash
Shawgo officiating.
Burial will be in Richmond Grove Cemetery, New Holland.
Mr. Parr was a lifelong farmer in the New Holland area.
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Memorial contributions may be made to the United Methodist Church of
Mason City.
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.
L.K.
Buckles Jr., 78, of Mount Pulaski died at 10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4,
2002, at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.