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Francis Bateman
Francis Luke Bateman,
91, of Lincoln died at 3:55 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002.
His funeral will be
at 11 a.m. Monday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski. Bill Shanle will officiate. Visitation will be one hour
before the service.
Burial will be in
Mount Pulaski Cemetery.
Bateman was a farmer
in Logan County and retired from the Logan County Farm Service.
He was born Jan. 9,
1911, at Bible Grove to Pearl and Eva Vickery Bateman. He married
Evelyn Donnan in Lincoln on June 8, 1933.
Bateman is survived
by his wife, of Lincoln; two sons, Leland Bateman of Springfield and
Garland Bateman of Whiteville, N.C.; one daughter, Phyllis Blaum of
Mount Pulaski; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one
great-great-grandchild; and three sisters, Lucille (and Arnold)
Heins, Thelma Gilbert and Juanita Farmer, all of Florida.
He was preceded in
death by three brothers and three sisters.
He was a member of
Mount Pulaski United Methodist Church and a past member of the Odd
Fellows Lodge of Lincoln and the Lincoln Civil Air Patrol.
Memorials may be made to the American
Heart Association or St. Clara’s Manor.
Click here to send a note of condolence to the Bateman family.
June
Crook
June Crook, 44, of
Birmingham, Ala., formerly of Lincoln, died Sunday, Sept. 29, 2002,
at her home.
Her funeral will be
at 11 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Gilmer’s Funeral Service, Mobile,
Ala. Visitation will be one hour before the service.
Burial will be in
Bailey Cemetery, Saraland, Ala.
Mrs. Crook was a
homemaker.
Survivors include her
husband, Willie A. Crook III; three children, Chris (and Sheanna)
Moore, Heather (and Jim) Decater and Mark Butell, all of Lincoln;
two stepchildren, Willie A. (and Wyena) Crook Jr. of Mobile, Ala.,
and Dexter Crook, in the U.S. Army.; her father, Francis (and wife
Helen) Merreighn of Lincoln; one sister and six brothers, Ronnie
Merreighn, Greg Merreighn, Jack Merreighn, Daniel Merreighn, Frances
Merreighn Jr. and Charles Jackson, all of Lincoln; 13 nieces; and 13
nephews.
She was preceded in
death by her mother, Clara Jackson.
Mrs. Crook was a great wife to her
devoted husband of 13 years.
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Bernice Klokkenga
Bernice Klokkenga, 86, of Delavan,
formerly of Hartsburg and Emden, died at 6:06 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30,
2002, at Morton Terrace in Morton.
Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m.
Thursday at the Davis Mortuary in Delavan.
Her funeral will be at 10:30 a.m.
Friday at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Emden, with the Rev. Frank
Pieper officiating.
Burial will be in Hartsburg Union
Cemetery, rural Hartsburg.
Mrs. Klokkenga was a beautician in
Emden and worked at Stetson China Factory in Lincoln. She then
worked at Lincoln State School until retiring in the early 1980s.
She was born March 13, 1916, in San
Jose to Christ and Jennie Reinholtz Mammen. She married William H.
Klokkenga on Dec. 3, 1944, in Emden, and he died March 27, 1968.
Surviving are one son, Gordon (and
Kathy) Klokkenga of Delavan; one daughter, Christy (and Steve) Watts
of Delavan; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by three
sisters.
She was a member of St. Peter’s
Lutheran Church in Emden.
Memorial
contributions may be made to the church.
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