Evelyn Alberta Kutz          Send a link to a friend

ELKHART -- Evelyn Alberta Kutz, 75, of Elkhart, died at 9:18 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005 at Memorial Medical Center, Springfield.

Visitation is set for 4 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home, Lincoln.

Service will be at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 21 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Lincoln. Rev. Dan Wissmann will preside.

Burial is at Hartsburg Union Cemetery, Hartsburg, IL

Mrs. Kutz was born to John and Alice Primm Drake on June 4, 1930 in Logan County. She married Harold E. Kutz on January 7, 1951 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Emden.

She worked at ALMH. 48 years as a switchboard operator and admitting attendant and was member of the Lincoln Immanuel Lutheran Choir.

Survivors include four sons, Doug Kutz of St. Louis, MO, Greg (Carissa) Kutz of Lincoln, Jeff (Carol) Kutz of Elkhart, Bruce (Joanne) Kutz of Aurora; three daughters, Donna (Lance) Vaughan of Mt. Pulaski, Debra (John) Swaringen of Hobe Sound, FL, Dawn (David) Kutz-Crawford of Lincoln; and one brother, Ralph (Mary Ellen) Drake of Girard. She had 18 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by both Parents and 2 sisters

Memorials may be made to the Evelyn Kutz Memorial fund.

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Richard Duane Gordon  Send a link to a friend

Richard Duane Gordon, 81, formerly of Atlanta, died Friday, July 29 in Green Valley, Arizona.

Mr. Gordon’s cremains were committed last Wednesday Sept. 14, at Mountjoy Cemetery, rural Atlanta.

Mr. Gordon was born on Oct. 31, 1923 in rural Atlanta, the son of Paul and Gladys Howard Gordon. He is survived by a daughter, Paula Marsh, a sister, Jean Sohl and a special friend, David Weeks.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Ruth Ray.

He attended rural schools in the Atlanta area and graduated from Atlanta High School in 1941. He attended the University of Illinois.

He served in the navy during World War II and then settled in Alaska where he worked with a confinement hog project. He retired to Belize, Central America and for the past few years lived in Arizona.

Quiram Funeral Home, Atlanta handled local arrangements.

Edna Mae Beccue  Send a link to a friend

Edna Mae Beccue, 86, died Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005 at Leroy Manor, Leroy where she has resided since 2001.

There was no visitation. She was laid to rest on Saturday at the Atlanta Cemetery. Quiram Funeral Home, Atlanta handled arrangements.

Mrs. Beccue was born January 16, 1919 in rural McLean, the daughter of Clauda and Leona Pickett Hamblen. She married George A. Beccue on Oct. 10,1939 at Wheaton. Mr. Beccue died May 27, 1990.

She is survived by a daughter, Marilyn Morath, Atlanta; three grandchildren, Glen (Debbie) Horath, Indiana, Chestnut Merlin (Michelle) Horath, Angela (Clinton) Myers; seven great grandchildren and a great great grandson.
She is also survived by three brothers, Homer, Sr., Leroy, Carl Hamblen Kenney, Lyle Hamblen, Las Vegas, NV.; and one sister, Leona Oberst, Normal.

She was preceded in death by her son-in-law, Glen; three brothers and two sisters.

Mrs. Beccue was a homemaker.

Memorials can be made to her family.