Josephine Laun, 81, of
Lincoln died Monday (Dec. 15, 2003) at 1:40 p.m. on Macon County Highway
20 from Bearsdale Road in Hickory Point Township.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday
at Zion Lutheran Church of New Holland, with the Rev. Dr. George P.
Ascher officiating. Visitation will be from noon until 2 p.m.
Thursday at the church.
Burial will be in Richmond Grove
Cemetery, New Holland.
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in
Lincoln is handling arrangements.
Mrs. Laun had worked as secretary at
the soil conservation office in Lincoln and at New
Holland-Middletown High School.
She was born May 9, 1922, at New
Holland to Walter and Mildred Bracey Osborn. She married Kermit Dale
Laun on Nov. 14, 1942, in New Holland. He died in 1995.
Survivors are one son, Greg Laun of
Springfield; two daughters, Jill (and Jim) Rimington of Pekin and
Chris (and Steve) Hinch of New Holland; a special companion, Raymond
Zurkhammer of Lincoln; one sister, Lydia "Lee" (and Ray) Lemme of
Lincoln; two grandsons, Bradley (and Regina) Hinch of New Holland
and Ryan (and Molly) Rimington of Plainfield; one granddaughter,
Angela (and Keith) Chase of Plainfield; and four
great-grandchildren, Johnathan, David and Luke Hinch, all of New
Holland, and Connor Chase of Plainfield.
She was a member of Zion Lutheran
Church of New Holland and the Concordia Society of the church. She
was secretary of Richmond Community Club and a member of the Abraham
Lincoln Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.
Memorials
may be made to Zion Lutheran Church of New Holland.
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