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Darrell Klink

[August 29, 2011]  LINCOLN -- Darrell E. Klink, 84, of Lincoln, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, at 9:59 p.m. at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, following a Masonic service at 3 p.m.

His funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lincoln.

Mr. Klink was an attorney in Lincoln for 58 years. He served two terms as the state's attorney of Logan County and at that time was the youngest in the state.

He served in the U.S. Navy in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II.

He was born on April 28, 1927, in Emden to Carl and Lena Sweeter Klink.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley Schoch Kennedy Klink; three children, Katherine L. Rosenbaum of Arthur, Brian (and Tamera) Klink of Wales, Wis., and Janice E. Klink of Sullivan; one stepson, Eric Kennedy of Houston, Texas; six grandchildren, Jeffery (and Lindsey), Karissa, Kristina and Jonathan Klink and Michael and David Rosenbaum; and two great-grandchildren.

He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Lincoln Veterans of Foreign Wars, Emden American Legion Post 506, Forty & Eight; Lincoln Masonic Lodge 210 AF & AM, Springfield Ansar Shrine and a 50-year member of the Lincoln BPO 914 Elks Lodge.

He attended the University of Illinois and received his bachelor's and law degree in 1953.

Memorials may be given to the Danville or Quincy Veterans Hospital or the Elks Crippled Children.

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