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His funeral will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Peasley
Funeral Home in Lincoln, with Ryan Edgecombe
officiating. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. Tuesday
until the service time. Burial will be in the
Atlanta Cemetery.
Mr. Spaits was an Illinois state trooper in the
1950s and retired from R.A. Cullinan of Tremont in
1984.
He was born on Aug. 27, 1926, in Atlanta. His
parents were Reuben and Ella Mae Reinhart Spaits. He
married Linda Finfrock on Dec. 27, 1980, in Beason.
She preceded him in death on Sept. 11, 2009.
He is survived by one sister, Fonda Wallen of
Lincoln; one brother, Marshall Spaits of Athens,
Ala.; one stepdaughter, Cheryl (and James) Newman of
Belleville; one stepson, Douglas Newman of Nebraska;
three nieces, Janet (and Larry) Gough, Susan (and
John) Stumpf and Julie Wales; and one nephew, Jeff
Gilbert.
He was a member of the Lincoln United Methodist
Church.
Marvin graduated from the Atlanta High School in
1944.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the
fund for a new van at The Christian Village or to
the benevolent fund of the Illinois State Police.
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