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Burial will follow in Elkhart Cemetery. Mr.
Webster first taught at Avon High School and then
moved to Lincoln in 1959 to teach industrial arts at
Lincoln Junior High School. He retired from
education in 1976 to form the construction
partnership Cline & Webster, and in 1990 he
established his own firm, Roger Webster Construction
Inc. He retired in 2000.
He served two years of active duty as an
occupational therapist with the 101st Airborne
Division of the U.S. Army in Clarksville, Tenn.,
followed by two years in the Reserves.
He was born Feb. 28, 1934, in Kewanee to James
Henry and Ruth Young Webster. He married Gladys
Jackson on April 7, 1957. She preceded him in death
on Oct. 4, 1984. He later married Carolyn Miller on
Aug. 31, 1986. She survives.
He is also survived by two sons, Mitchell (and
Betsy) Webster of La Grange Park and Neil (and
Linda) Webster of Lincoln; one daughter Sheila (and
Randy) Rowland of Louisville, Ky.; one stepson,
Michael (and Jean Ann) Miller of Lincoln; one
stepdaughter, Beth (and Darwin) Hoffert of Lincoln;
eight grandchildren, Quintin and Cameron Rowland of
Louisville, Ky., Andrew and Bradley Webster of La
Grange Park, and Carrie (and Paul) Turner, Megan
Hoffert, Kate Miller and Nick Goff, all of Lincoln;
one great-grandson, Griffen Turner of Lincoln; and
one brother, James W. Webster of Kewanee.
He was also preceded in death by one brother and
one sister.
He was a member of Holy Family Church in Lincoln,
the Logan County Shrine Club and Ansar Shrine in
Springfield. He was a past president of the Logan
County Shrine Club and served as chairman of the
Logan County March of Dimes. He held life
memberships in the Toulon Masonic Lodge, the Peoria
Consistory and the Lincoln Elks Lodge. He formerly
served on the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital
board of trustees and the board of the Lincoln
Methodist Church. |
He was raised on a farm south of West Jersey and
graduated from Toulon High School in 1952. He earned
a bachelor's degree in education from Western
Illinois University in 1956 and did graduate work at
Northern Colorado University in Greeley, Colo., and
Illinois State University in Normal.
He enjoyed most sports, particularly hunting and
fishing. He treasured an annual fishing trip to
Canada which, over 35 years, he introduced to all
the male members of his family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be
made in his name to Holy Family Church, Shriners
Hospitals for Children or the American Cancer
Society and will be accepted at the funeral home.
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