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Service:
A private family graveside will be held at Randolph
Cemetery in Kenney. A celebration of life will be
held at a later date.
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Mount Pulaski
Obituary
Nellie Randolph Leimbach, 104,
formerly of Mount Pulaski, died on April 16 in New
Braunfels, Texas. Nellie Elizabeth was born April
12, 1916 in rural Beason, Illinois. Her parents were
Laura Belle Hunt and Roy Jehu Randolph. She was next
to the youngest of seven brothers.
Nellie attended Bowles rural school and Beason High
School where she graduated in 1933. She earned her
teaching certificate at Illinois State University,
Normal and taught for 25 years. She taught in rural
schools in Logan and DeWitt counties, Marseilles
City Schools in LaSalle County, and Cornland and
Chestnut Elementary Schools.
On July 17, 1938, she married Clifford Louis
Leimbach of Chestnut. She and Clifford lived in
Chestnut until 1972 when they moved to Mount
Pulaski. In 1984 Nellie and Clifford purchased a
winter home in Ft. Myers, Florida and spent the
winter months there. They were married 67 years
before Clifford passed in 2005.
She was a lifetime member of the Abraham Lincoln
Hospital Auxiliary, Logan County Retired Teachers
Association, Daughters of American Revolution, and
Chestnut-Beason American Legion Auxiliary. She was a
charter member of Chestnut Happy Homemakers Home
Extension, past president of Mount Pulaski Women’s
Club, and a member of the A.D.K. teacher’s sorority.
Nellie did volunteer work at the Mount Pulaski Court
House and Mount Pulaski Museum. She was a member of
Zion Lutheran Church, Mount Pulaski.
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Nellie loved to read and do
embroidery. One of her projects was to make a quilt
for each grandchild.
Nellie was preceded in death by her parents, her
husband, Clifford, and her seven brothers, Reed,
Jim, Homer, Ross, Harry, Richard, and Donald.
Nellie is survived by her three children, Delores
(Dennis) McCauley, Mason, Ohio; Deborah (Dave)
Hamilton, Tampa, Florida; and Daniel (Debbie)
Leimbach, New Braunfels, Texas. She has six
grandchildren, Erin McCauley (Dr. Jason Klingensmith);
DJ (Tina) Hamilton; Patricia (Brad) Lenning; Rachel
Leimbach (Matthew Schwartz); Marcus (Marla)
Hamilton; and Dr. Robert (Emma) Leimbach. She has 10
Great-Grandchildren.
A private family graveside will be held at Randolph
Cemetery in Kenney. A celebration of life will be
held at a later date.
Memorials can be made to Zion Lutheran Church Mount
Pulaski, Chestnut United Methodist Church, Mount
Pulaski Museum or the Mount Pulaski Public Library.
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral in Mount Pulaski is
handling the arrangements.
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