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Harold
Merrill
Harold T. Merrill, 94, of Lincoln died
Monday (July 12, 2004) at 12:15 p.m. at Memorial Medical Center in
Springfield.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, with Tracy Thomas
officiating. Visitation will be from noon until 2 p.m. at the
funeral home.
Burial will be in New Union Cemetery,
Lincoln.
Mr. Merrill was corporate president of
Merrill's Contractors, now of Springfield, when he retired in 1978
after 46 years in the construction industry.
He was born April 7,
1910, in Albia, Iowa, to Charles A. and Martha Fry Merrill. He
married Rachel E. Suiter on Jan. 5, 1932, in Kirkwood, Mo. She died
May 9, 2001.
He is survived by one
son, Charles "Chuck" (and Karen) Merrill of Springfield; two
daughters, Barbara "Ruth" (and Thomas) Hertzfeldt of Mackinaw and
Joyce (and Kenneth) Letterle of LaFayette, La.; nine grandchildren;
18 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; two
brothers, Bernard Merrill of Burlington, Iowa, and Robert Merrill of
Fairfield, Iowa; and three sisters, Ruth Munley O'Brien, Ilene
Colter and Vilene Given, all of Ottuma, Iowa.
He was also preceded
in death by one daughter, Carolyn Bevard; three brothers; and four
sisters.
Mr. Merrill worked as
a coal miner in central Iowa from 1922 until he moved his
family to Logan County in 1932. He owned and operated Merrill
Excavating and Septic Service through 1973. In 1974 he co-founded
Merrill's Contractors Inc., and he led the company through its
formative years until his retirement.
During World War II
he supported the war effort as a security guard at the Illiopolis
Munitions Plant.
He attended Lincoln
Hill Free Methodist Church.
He was a past member
of Teamsters Local 916, Lincoln Laborers Local, Moose Lodge 1441 of
Lincoln, Eagles Lodge 2708 of Lincoln and the IOOF Lincoln Lodge. He
was Republican precinct committeeman in the 1970s.
Memorials
may be made to the Alzheimer's Disease Foundation or American Heart
Association.
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Leota Stivers
Leota H. Stivers, 91, of Mount Pulaski
died Sunday (July 11, 2004) at 3:30 a.m. at Vonderlieth Living
Center.
Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday
at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski, with John
Robertson officiating. Visitation will be one hour before the
service.
Burial will be in Hall Cemetery, rural
Blue Mound.
Mrs. Stivers was a homemaker.
She was born Oct. 16, 1912, in Macon
County to Albert and Grace Reazin Gemmer. She married Herbert F.
Stivers in Champaign on Aug. 24, 1949. He died Jan. 28, 1994.
She is survived by one stepson, Richard
(and Karen) Stivers of Bloomington; one stepdaughter, Linda (and
Roger) Thomas of Fountain Valley, Calif.; one sister, Shirley
Wehling of Pleasant Hills, Ohio; seven stepgrandchildren, Karen
Thomas, Laura Thomas, John Thomas, Debra Kus, Nancy Lucero, Brad
Stivers and Christopher Chester; six step-great-grandchildren, Mitzi
Payton, Emily Brown, Natalie Mullins, John Brown II, Nikko Stivers
and Spiro Stivers; and one step-great-great-grandchild, Michael Ray
Stotts.
She was also preceded in death by three
sisters, Helen Ryan, Irene Skaggs and Opal Brown.
She was a member of Mount Pulaski
Christian Church, the Loyal Daughters of the church and the Mount
Pulaski Woman's Club.
Memorials
may be made to the Mount Pulaski Christian Church building fund or
to Vonderlieth Living Center.
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Stivers family.
George Lolling
George R. Lolling, 88, formerly of
Hartsburg, died Saturday (July 10, 2004) at 7:20 p.m. at Vonderleith
Living Center, Mount Pulaski.
His funeral was Wednesday morning at St. John's Lutheran Church in Hartsburg, with the Rev.
David Russell officiating. Visitation was at the church on Tuesday and one hour before the service on Wednesday.
Burial is in Zion Cemetery,
Lincoln.
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Mr. Lolling was a retired farmer and
Hartsburg-Emden school bus driver.
He was born May 29, 1916, at Hartsburg
to Simon and Katie Klockenga Lolling. He married Dorothy Martinie on
May 3, 1941, in Bowling Green, Mo. She died Oct. 31, 1985. He
married Florence Klokkenga on Aug. 8, 1987, in Hartsburg. She died
in 2000.
He is survived by two daughters, Nancy
(and Tim) Rohlfs of Mackinaw and Sandi Wilcox of Hartsburg; two
sons, Rudy Klokkenga of Bloomington and Ron (and Vicky) Klokkenga of
Lincoln; one brother, Rudy (and Esther) Lolling of Mount Pulaski;
five grandchildren, Jon (and Janet) Wilcox of Marquette Heights,
Marc Wilcox of Kent, Wash., Kimberly (and J.R.) Eskew of Hartsburg,
Derek (and Rebecca) Rohlfs of Naperville and Craig Rohlfs of Peoria;
and six great-grandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by one
daughter.
He was a member of St. John's Lutheran
Church in Hartsburg.
Memorials
may be made to the church or the donor's choice.
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