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Robert Faith

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[August 30, 2007]  Robert L. Faith, 79, of Lincoln died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, at 11:37 a.m. at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski. His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Mount Pulaski funeral home, with Bill Shanle officiating.

Burial will be in Lake Bank Cemetery, rural Mount Pulaski.

Mr. Faith was a retired farm machinery mechanic.

He was born Feb. 25, 1928, in Warrensburg to Benjamin Baxter and Grace Crosier McBride Faith. He married Ruth Mae Robinson on Nov. 17, 1944, in Lincoln; she preceded him in death. He married Doris M. Hahn Koehler in Mount Pulaski on July 2, 1977.

He is survived by his wife, of Lincoln; one son, Robert W. Faith of Decatur; three daughters, Mary (and Bill) Moore of Dallas, Texas, Susan (and Robert) Pope of Mount Pulaski and Lynda Letterle of Mount Pulaski; two stepchildren, Edward A. (and Claire) Koehler of Lincoln and Kathleen (and Robert) Emerson of Springfield; one brother, Carl (and Rita) Faith of Latham; 13 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

He was also preceded in death by three brothers, one sister and a son-in-law.

He was a member of the Buffalo Christian Church and a former member of the Mount Pulaski Christian Church.

He was one of the founding members of the Land of Lincoln Tractor and Engine Club.

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