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Marie Aper

[October 31, 2008]  Marie Aper, 90, of Lincoln, died Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008, at 10 p.m. at Vonderlieth Living Center in Mount Pulaski.

Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.

Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lincoln, with the Rev. Andrew Nyren officiating.

Burial will be in Hartsburg Union Cemetery, Hartsburg.

Mrs. Aper had taught at Bethel School in Logan County.

She was born Oct. 1, 1918, at Atlanta, to George and Meta Trompe Groppe. She married Charles H. Alberts in Emden in 1945, and he preceded her in death. She later married Julius Aper in Emden in 1967, and he also preceded her in death.

She is survived by four sons, Roger (and Shirley) Alberts of Lincoln, Rodney (and Jill) Alberts of Lincoln, Richard (and Karen) Alberts of Rogers, Ark., and Herb (and Eileen) Aper of Bartonville; four daughters, Peggy (and Don) Williams of Bloomington, Pamela (and Randall) Erkert of Milwaukee, Wis., Judy (and Leroy) McCray of Lincoln and Joyce Slifer of Mode; 15 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by one daughter, Janice Curry, and was the last of her immediate family.

Mrs. Aper was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church and the Mary-Martha Circle of the church.

Memorials may be made to her church.

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