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Visitation:
None
Service:
10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 19, 2015 at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home, Lincoln .
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln
Obituary
Adam F. Bock, 98, of Lincoln passed away at 10:20
p.m. September 6, 2015 at Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital, Lincoln.
Adam Frederick Bock, fifth son of John Henry and
Wilhelmina Awe Bock, was born September 8, 1916, in
Oran Township, Logan County. He and his brothers,
Henry, Walter, William, and Carl, with their sister
Hilda, grew up on the family farm four miles north
of Beason, Logan County. Adam was confirmed in the
St. John Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1931, at
Lincoln, attended the Mt. Zion County School and
graduated from the Beason High School in 1933, as
the Class salutatorian. During W.W. II, he served
with the 11th Army Depot Group with the 8th and 15th
Army Air Corps as a Master Sergeant in England,
Africa, Sicily and Italy, from January 2, 1942 to
September 30, 1945.
On June 10, 1945, Adam Bock and Miriam Otte were
married in Lincoln. She preceded him in death April
15, 2012. He is survived by many nieces and nephews.
Adam Bock, served on the County Farm Bureau Board ,
the County Extension Council and helped promote the
Soil Bank Plan for Agriculture, and promoted 4-H and
County Fair activities, helped to organize the Logan
Agriculture Toastmasters Club in 1953. He served in
its various offices and in 1968 served as Governor
of District 8 and on the National board of
Toastmasters International, 1971-1973. He is a
member of the Atlanta American Legion Post #341,
guided the project of building the new $1,250,000
Logan County Safety Complex in Lincoln. He and his
brother, Walter, were grain and livestock farmers
all their lives until they retired in 1985.
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Adam made an Anatomical Gift Request to Mayo Clinic.
Memorial services for Adam will be at 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, September 19, 2015 at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home, Lincoln with
Rev. Kenneth D. Kramer officiating. There is no
visitation.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given in Adam’s
name to St. John United Church of Christ or donor’s
choice. A burial at New Union Cemetery will be at a
later date, where full military rites will be
accorded.
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