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							Private family service to be held at a later date. 
							
							Funeral home: Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, 
							Lincoln     
							Obituary 
							 
							URBANA - Norma Louise Rankin, 88, of Urbana passed 
							away on Thursday, September 7, 2017 at Amber Glen 
							Care Center in Urbana. 
							 
							Mrs. Rankin was born on March 2, 1929 in Lincoln, 
							the youngest of three children of Elmer and Alma 
							Gehlbach. She married Harold Eugene (Gene) Rankin. 
							He preceded her in death.  
							 
							Mrs. Rankin is survived by her son, John (Sandra) 
							Rankin of Danbury, CT; a daughter, Nancy (Lawrence) 
							Jeckel of Champaign; two grandsons, Benjamin (Laura) 
							Jeckel of Libertyville and Christopher Jeckel of 
							Seattle, WA; three great-grandsons, Tate Jeckel, 
							Owen Jeckel, and Aidan Bauer. 
							 
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							Mrs. Rankin was also preceded in death by her 
							parents; her brother and sister, Vernon Gehlbach and 
							Doris Howell; and a grandson, John A. Rankin. 
							 
							Mrs. Rankin was a graduate of Lincoln Community High 
							School and the St. Luke’s School of Nursing in 
							Chicago. She was a longtime resident of 
							Champaign/Urbana. 
							 
							A Private Family service will be held at a later 
							date. 
            
            
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