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Doris Diez

[January 11, 2010]  MOUNT PULASKI -- Doris Diez, 83, of Mount Pulaski, died Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, at 5:37 p.m. at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski, with the Rev. Vaughn Beeman officiating. Visitation will be 9-11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery.

Mrs. Diez retired from Lehn & Fink in Lincoln after 27 years.

She was born Feb. 25, 1926, in Mount Pulaski to Louis and Flossie Mae Jones Moore. She married Oliver L. Diez in Lincoln on Nov. 2, 1945. He preceded her in death on Nov. 11, 2001.

She is survived by one sister, Betty Swick of Wilmington; a sister-in-law, Gladys Moore of Mount Pulaski; and by loving nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by three brothers, Albert Moore, Louis Moore and Harold Moore; and five sisters, Louise Bowles, Pauline Huston, Colleen Wilcockson, Geraldine Schroth and Kay Kinnett.

She was a member of the First Christian Church of Mount Pulaski and the Mount Pulaski Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.

Doris loved gardening and her flowers.

Memorials may be made to the First Christian Church of Mount Pulaski or the activities department at Vonderlieth.

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