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Doris Irene Lovell

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[December 29, 2014]  LINCOLN - Doris Irene Lovell, 91, of Lincoln, passed away December 25, 2014 at home surrounded by her children.

Visitation:  From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, December 29, 2014 at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lincoln.

Service: 1 p.m. Monday at the church.

Funeral home: Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral Home

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Doris Irene Lovell, 91, of Lincoln, passed away December 25, 2014 at home surrounded by her children.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, December 29, 2014 at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lincoln. Funeral Services will follow at 1 p.m. also at the church. Burial will be at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington. Holland Barry & Bennett Funeral Home in Lincoln is handling services.

Doris was born June 6, 1923 in Roodhouse, the daughter of Wayne Harmon Foley and Irene Dell (Bigham) Foley. She married Everett Henry “Buzz” Lovell. He preceded her in death in 1959.

She was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lincoln where she served as a Sunday School teacher, the head of the Crusader’s Group, and as a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Group. Doris graduated from Illinois State University, Normal with a degree in teaching. She taught elementary school at Irving Elemantary School in Bloomington for many years. She also was a tutor and had a daycare in her home. Children were the light of her life and educating them gave her purpose and great joy.

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Surviving are her children Michael Everett Lovell of Lincoln and Susan Marley of Bloomington.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brother Wayne Luke Foley and her best friend Betty Totzell.

Memorial donations may be made to First Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
 

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