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Walter Musick
Walter S. Musick, 86, of Lincoln died
at 2:05 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002, at St. John’s Hospital in
Springfield.
Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m.
Friday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.
His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday
at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, with Tom Gerdts officiating.
Burial will be in Zion Cemetery,
Lincoln.
Mr. Musick retired from Obear Nester
Bottle Company in 1978. He then served as bailiff of the Logan
County Circuit Court until 1984.
He was born May 16, 1916, in San
Francisco, Calif., to Clifford and Bertha "Betty" Menzel Musick. He
married Ruth Robertson Jones on Feb. 1, 1947, in Lincoln. She
survives.
Other survivors are two sons, Ronald
(and Sandra) Musick of Vernon, Conn., and Wayne Musick of Florence,
S.C.; two daughters, Beverly Becker of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and
Ruth (and James) Knecht of Normal; nine grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two
brothers and one granddaughter.
He was a member of Lincoln Christian
Church, the Jolly Seniors group of the church and the kitchen Sunday
school class. He had also been a member of the Kiwanis Club and a
board member of The Oasis senior center. He was formerly a member of
the Linpro Square Dance Club.
He graduated from Lincoln Community
High School in 1934 and worked for Spellman Lumber in Lincoln during
his early years. He was employed by Obear Nester beginning in 1947
and served as president of Glass Bottle Blowers Union Local 71 for
several years.
Memorials
may be made to Lincoln Christian Church or to the Christian Village
in Lincoln.
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