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John Ryman

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[August 21, 2007]  A memorial service for John F. Ryman will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln. The Rev. David Johnson will officiate. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be in New Union Cemetery at a later date.

Mr. Ryman, 87, died Aug. 12, 2007, at 11:30 a.m. at the Christian Village.

He was a retired history and social studies school teacher. He had taught for 35 years at Lincoln Community High School.

He served in the Coast Guard for two years in the South Pacific.

He was born Jan. 6, 1920, in Knox County, Mo., to Frank and Goldie Farmer Ryman. He married Helen Graff on Nov. 29, 1946, in Bloomington, Ind. She preceded him in death on July 16, 1994.

He is survived by six nieces, Mary (and Ron) Tastula of Fort Myers, Fla., Linda (and Chuck) Gray of Kennedale, Texas, Jan (and Jim) Gerlack of Reedsburg, Wis., Barb (and David) Smith of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., Beverly Lafelaette of Elmwood and Sally Stahl of Ellsinore, Mo.; and his caregiver, Cindy Marcotte of Lincoln.

One brother and one sister preceded him in death.

He was a member of the Unitarian Universal Church in Bloomington and the national and Illinois teachers' retirement associations.

He was a baseball coach at LCHS for a number of years.

He graduated from Illinois State University and received his master's degree from Indiana University.

Memorials may be made to the John F. and Helen G. Ryman Scholarship Fund at Illinois State University.

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