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Ruth Haak

[December 30, 2010]  LINCOLN -- Ruth Marie Bratcher Haak, 84, of Lincoln, died quietly Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.

Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln. An AMVETS service will follow at 4 p.m.

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

Mrs. Haak was a devoted advocate for veterans. She was office manager for Barrick Transfer Company in Lincoln for 25 years and then served 32 years as executive secretary for the Illinois AMVETS Ladies' Auxiliary.

She was born Jan. 30, 1926, to Alton Bratcher and Ruth Bratcher (Brave). She married Arnold Haak on Jan. 15, 1944.

She is survived by her husband of nearly 67 years; two sons, William (and Rhonda) Haak of Lincoln and Michael (and Nancy) Haak of McLean; and grandchildren Jeff of Chatham, Angie, Felicia of Charleston, S.C., and Casey of McLean.

She was a life member of the auxiliaries to the AMVETS, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans posts in Lincoln. In the AMVETS Auxiliary, she had served in every office in local Post 71, many more at the division level and in many chairmanships at the state level. In recent years, she was a driving force in the memorial brick project at All Veterans Park, at College Avenue and Union Street in Lincoln.

She also served 16 years as treasurer of the New Salem Property Owners' Association, where she and Arnold had a campsite.

Memorials may be made to the Illinois AMVETS Auxiliary Scholarship Fund.

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