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Helen Trigg
Helen Marian Trigg, 90, of Lincoln died
Tuesday (June 17, 2003) at 8:45 p.m. at the Christian Village
Nursing Home.
There will be no visitation.
Cremation has taken place, and Mrs.
Trigg's ashes have been interred in New Union Cemetery, Lincoln.
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m.
Friday at the First United Methodist Church in Lincoln. The Rev. Ray
Hudson will officiate.
Holland and Barry Funeral Home of
Lincoln handled arrangements.
Mrs. Trigg was a teacher for most of
her adult life.
She was born Feb. 9, 1913, in Findlay
to Joel Asbury Combs and Anna Marie Henninges Combs. Her parents
died when she was in her teens, and she then lived with Ada and Ben
Armstrong of Lincoln, her aunt and uncle. She married Frank W. Trigg
in 1946, and he died in 1967.
Survivors are one son, Thomas W. Trigg,
and two grandchildren, Alison Trigg Conner and Morgan Kelsey Conner
Trigg, all of Missoula, Mont.
She was also preceded in death by two
brothers, Laurence Asbury Combs and Wayne Maurice Combs.
She described her father, a lumberyard
manager, as a gentle man who instilled in her the desire to do her
best, to know the difference between right and wrong, never to be
afraid of work, and to save regularly. She remembered her mother as
a religious person who took her along everywhere she went.
Helen adored her older brothers and
envied them for being able to attend school when she was still too
young. When her brothers came home from school, they often showed
her what they had learned.
Finally, she came home from her own
first day of school, full of excitement. She sat next to her mother,
who was doing the family's ironing, and read her first-grade reading
book aloud from cover to cover. When asked what she did for the rest
of first grade, she said, "I read it again."
Her father died when she was 13, and
when her mother became ill shortly afterward, Helen nursed her
through a protracted final illness. Her mother died when Helen was
16, and she moved to Lincoln to live with the Armstrongs.
Her uncle died shortly after her
arrival in Lincoln, but she lived with her aunt longer than she had
lived with her own mother. She developed close ties to the
Armstrongs' children, Marian, Wayne, Carroll and Lois. Her aunt
encouraged her to go to college.
She received an associate of arts
degree in 1933 from Lincoln College and a bachelor's degree in 1938
from Illinois State University. She also did graduate work at ISU,
although she did not receive a graduate degree.
She began teaching in a one-room,
one-teacher, eight-grade rural school near Lincoln. She later taught
in Oak Park and in Lincoln until she retired at 65.
Local educators recognized the quality
of her work, and she often instructed student teachers in her
classroom.
During her later career she taught
kindergarten, with classes ranging from 15 to 46 children. Although
she recognized the problems of large classes, she remembered with
satisfaction the time she succeeded in saying goodbye by name to
each of her 89 pupils on their first day of school.
In the mid-1960s, she initiated the
Head Start program in three central Illinois counties, but she
always said she would rather be a teacher than an administrator.
Following her retirement, she kept in
close contact with family and friends, paying special attention to
those in poor health. She traveled with friends throughout the
United States.
Mrs. Trigg
was active in the First United Methodist Church in Lincoln, to which
memorials may be made.
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Geneva Litherland
Geneva I. Litherland, 85, of Normal
died Wednesday (June 18, 2003) at 12:05 p.m. at the home of her son
in rural Atlanta.
Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday
at Quiram Funeral Home, Atlanta. Douglas Reed will officiate.
Visitation will be one hour before the service.
Burial will be in Funks Grove Cemetery,
rural McLean.
Mrs. Litherland was a homemaker and
caregiver.
She was born April 9, 1918, in Lawrence
County to Adam and Evalina Buchanan Reed. She married John M.
Litherland in 1936, and he died in August 1985.
Surviving are one son, Erwin (and
Kathleen) Litherland of Atlanta; one grandson, Noah (and Melissa)
Litherland of Urbana; and one brother, Vachel M. Reed of Bridgeport.
She was also preceded in death by one
son and 12 brothers and sisters.
She was a member of the Free Methodist
Church of Normal.
Memorials
may be made to OSF Hospice, 2416 E. Washington St., Bloomington, IL
61704.
Romelda Johnson
Romelda G. Johnson,
84, of Cornland died Monday (June 16, 2003) at 4:58 p.m. at St.
John's Hospice in Springfield.
Private graveside
services at Mount Pulaski Cemetery will be at a later date. Allen
Hickerson will officiate. There will be no visitation.
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mrs. Johnson was a
retired switchboard operator.
She was born March
18, 1919, in Lincoln to John and Clara Wilmert Birnbaum. She married
Dale Johnson in Bloomington on Oct. 28, 1965. He preceded her in
death.
Survivors are four
daughters, Beverly (and Leroy) Ramthun of Cornland, Lanette (and
David) Munks of Bend, Ore., Melody Krusz of Astoria, N.Y., and
Candace Stoll of Itasca; six grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
She was a member of
Cornland Christian Church.
She worked with AARP for a time.
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Bob
Davison
Bob Davison, 71, of Bascom, Fla., died
Thursday (June 12, 2003) at 12:06 p.m. at his home.
Committal of ashes
will be June 25 at an 11 a.m. service at Irish Grove Cemetery, Middletown.
Roger James and Ken Davison will officiate. Military and Masonic
rites will be conducted at the graveside.
Holland and Barry
Funeral Home in Lincoln is handling local arrangements.
Mr. Davison retired
from Caterpillar in Peoria after 34 years and was a truck driver for
14 years.
He was a U.S. Army
veteran of World War II.
He was born Oct. 6,
1929, in Oakley to Walter Grant and Nettie Banister Davison. He
married Clara Rickard on June 2, 1950, in Petersburg.
Survivors are his
wife, of Bascom, Fla.; one son, Phillippe I. Davison of Altha, Fla.;
one daughter, Angelique Stevenson of Mason City; eight
grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three brothers, Walter
Davison of Green Valley, Kenneth Davison of Middletown and Edwin A.
Davison of Lincoln; and one sister, Lois J. Boyer of Lincoln.
He was of the
Methodist faith.
He was a member of American Legion Post
672, Masonic Lodge 653 of Greenview, the VFW post of Creve Coeur and
the Moose Lodge of Marianna, Fla.
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