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Robert
Downey "Tom" Wertheim
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[January 16, 2017]
ATLANTA
- Robert Downey "Tom" Wertheim, 75, of Atlanta, passed away at 12:35
p.m. on Monday, January 2, 2017, at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center
in Normal. |
Visitation: Friday, January 6, 2017,
from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Atlanta
Christian Church.
Masonic Rites will be accorded at 7:00 p.m.
Service:
Saturday, January 7, at 11 a.m. at the church
Funeral home: Quiram Peasley Funeral Home,
Atlanta
Obituary
Robert Downey "Tom" Wertheim, 75, of Atlanta, passed
away at 12:35 p.m. on Monday, January 2, 2017, at
Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal.
Visitation will be Friday, January 6, 2017, from
5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Atlanta Christian
Church. Masonic Rites will be accorded at 7:00 p.m.
Memorial services for Mr. Wertheim will be held on
Saturday, January 7, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. at the
Atlanta Christian Church. Mr. Maurice Stribling will
officiate.
Burial will be at a later date. Cremation Rites have
been accorded.
Robert Downey Wertheim was born November 30, 1941,
in Lincoln, the son of Robert "Bob" Glenn and Nancy
Hoblit Wertheim. He married Connie Renfrow on July
8, 1966 at the Eminence Christian Church in rural
Atlanta. She survives.
Tom is also survived by their children: Amy Wertheim
of Atlanta, Greg Wertheim of Normal, and Julie
(Erin) Mulliken of Bloomington; three grandchildren:
Nicholas Flach, Annika Wertheim, and Tatum Mulliken;
two sisters: Lynd Corley of Glenview, Ill., and
Elizabeth (Ed) Lenz of East Peoria. |
He was preceded in death by his parents, and one sister: Frances
Wertheim, M.D.
Tom was owner of the R.G.W. Candy Company in Atlanta. He was a
graduate of Atlanta High School and attended the University of
Illinois Urbana. He had farmed in the rural Atlanta area and
worked for the Atlanta Township road commissioner. Tom was a
member of Atlanta Masonic Lodge #165 and is a past Master. He
was a member of the Atlanta Christian Church where he had served
as a Deacon.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Atlanta Christian
Church.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted with Quiram-Peasley Funeral
Home of Atlanta.
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