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Treva Mayer
Treva L. Mayer, 93, of Palmetto, Fla.,
formerly of Mount Pulaski, died Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at
Westminster Towers in Bradenton, Fla.
A graveside service will be at 9:30
a.m. Monday at Mount Pulaski Cemetery. John Robertson will
officiate.
There will be no visitation.
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski is in charge
of arrangements.
Mrs. Mayer was a telephone operator for
Mount Pulaski Phone Company.
She was born May 17, 1910, at Lake Fork
to John J. and Delilah "Lila" Gallaway Barton. She married Fred L.
Mayer on March 19, 1960, and he preceded her in death.
Surviving are one sister, Frances Glick
of Mount Pulaski; one stepson, Robert Mayer of Mount Pulaski; and
several nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by one
son, John Frederick Bobell, and two brothers.
She was of the Baptist faith.
Memorials
may be made to the donor's choice.
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Mayer.
Dennis Floyd
Dennis A. Floyd, 53, of Bloomington,
formerly of Atlanta, died Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 8:30 p.m. at
his home. He had been under hospice care.
Mr. Floyd's body was cremated, and
services will be scheduled at a later date.
Quiram Funeral Home of Atlanta handled
arrangements.
He most recently was employed as sexton
for the Atlanta Cemetery.
He served four years in the Marine
Corps.
He was born Nov. 10, 1949, in Lincoln
to Albert and Shirley Bishop Floyd Jr. He married Barbara L.
"Bobbie" Horn on June 29, 1973, at the Chapel of the Trees, Funks
Grove. She died June 2, 2001.
Surviving are his mother, Shirley Floyd
of Atlanta; one daughter, Rana Covert of Bloomington; and two
granddaughters, Emily and Anna.
He was a
member of the Atlanta Christian Church.
Joseph Aldendifer
Memorial services for Joseph R.
Aldendifer will be on Saturday at Holland and Barry Funeral Home in
Lincoln. Visitation will begin at 2:30 p.m.,
with a service at 3:30 p.m. and burial to follow at Union Cemetery,
Lincoln.
Mr. Aldendifer died Nov. 8, 2002, in
Rancho Mirage, Calif.
He had been a military and commercial
pilot and president of the Mount Pulaski Telephone and Electric
Company.
He was born May 17, 1916, to Joseph R.
and Marguerite C. Aldendifer.
Surviving are his wife, Cynthia, of
Lincoln and Rancho Mirage, Calif.; three sons, Joseph R. Aldendifer
of Corona, Calif., James Aldendifer of South Bend, Ind., and Curtis
E. Aldendifer of Honolulu, Hawaii; a brother, James Aldendifer of
Lincoln; and a sister, Marianne Tucker of Naples, Fla.
He attended Central School in Lincoln;
St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis.; and Colorado
College, Colorado Springs, Colo., where he was in the class of 1939.
In 1940 he applied for flight training
with the U.S. Army Air Corps and began his training at Lindbergh
Field, San Diego, Calif., with the Ryan School of Aeronautics. He
completed flight training at Kelley Field, Texas, with the class of
1941.
He was assigned to the 95th Bomber
Group of the 8th Air Force at Harham, Suffolk, England. He served as
command pilot of a B-17 squadron and in that capacity was award the
Distinguished Flying Cross in June 1945.
Later in 1945, following his discharge,
he began his commercial flying career with Continental Airlines. He
retired from the airline in 1976.
Soon thereafter he returned to Lincoln
and assumed the role of president of the Mount Pulaski Telephone and
Electric Company. He held that position until 1991, when the company
was sold to the Rochester Telephone Company.
Memorials
may be made to the Wayne J. Schall Hospice of Lincoln.
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Albert Gehlbach
Albert E. Gehlbach,
91, of Lincoln died Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 10:45 a.m. at
Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.
Visitation was Friday
evening and his funeral was Saturday morning at the church. The
Rev. Richard Reinwald officiated.
Burial was in New
Union Cemetery, Lincoln.
Mr. Gehlbach was
engaged in farming and specialized in pork production.
He was born Feb. 14,
1912, in Chester Township, Logan County, to Adolph and Katherine
Brautigam Gehlbach. He married Iola Garton on July 30, 1938, in
Lincoln. She survives.
Other survivors are
two sons, Gerald D. (and wife Nancy) Gehlbach of Lincoln and Donald
D. (and wife Ann) Gehlbach of Sarasota, Fla.; four grandchildren,
Chad Gehlbach of Chicago, Scott Gehlbach of Moscow, Russia, Dr.
Brian Gehlbach of Chicago and Jody Agnacian of San Francisco,
Calif.; and four great-grandchildren, Lily Agnacian of San
Francisco, Calif., Charles Agnacian of San Francisco, Calif., Emma
Gehlbach of Chicago and Jacob Gehlbach of Chicago.
He was the last of
his immediate family and was preceded in death by four brothers and
three sisters: Harry, Erwin, George and Melvin Gehlbach and Mabel
Paulus, Lorene Kendall and Mildred Meinershagen.
He grew up on the
family farm near Lincoln. After graduating from high school in
Lincoln in 1930, he and his brother George started one of the first
commercial turkey farms in Illinois. In 1938 he began farming the
home farm and later specialized in pork production.
He built his own
shelled corn dryer in 1946, before commercial dryers were available.
He was one of the first to use slotted floors in confinement
buildings and developed Gehlbach Pour-N-Place forms for pouring the
floors.
He helped organize
the Logan County Pork Producers Association and was president of the
Illinois Swine Herd Improvement Association and National Pork
Producers Council. He was a director on the National Livestock and
Meat Board.
He received the
National Hog Farmer Award for Outstanding Service to the Pork
Industry, the Ford Motor Company Farm Efficiency Award and the
Prairie Farmer Master Farmer Award. He was named to the Pork
Industry Hall of Fame in 1986 by the National Pork Producers
Council.
He was also president
of the Logan County Extension Council, president of Logan County
Agricultural Toastmasters Club, president of the board of education
for Lincoln Community High School, a member of the Regional Board of
School Trustees and a member of Kiwanis.
He was named Courier
Man of the Month in 1965.
He was a member of
St. John United Church of Christ and served as president of the
church council.
Memorials may be made to his church.
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