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Robert “Bob” Freeman

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[June 27, 2022]  LINCOLN - Robert “Bob” Freeman, 85, died at 11:10AM on Monday, June 20, 2022, at his home.

Visitation:  9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday, July 1, 2022, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln

Service:  11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home

Funeral home: Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln   

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Robert “Bob” Freeman, 85, died at 11:10AM on Monday, June 20, 2022, at his home.

Bob was born on October 2, 1936, in Lincoln, the son of Delbert and Margaret (Salman) Freeman. His parents and two brothers, Harold Freeman, and Dennis Freeman; and sister, Doris Rogers preceded him in death.

He graduated from Lincoln Community High School in 1955 where he was a member of the National Honor Society and attended Lincoln College after high school. He married Carol A. Caulkins (deceased) in Knoxville, in 1959. They had one son, Duane Freeman.

Bob was a store manager working for the Jones Shoe Company until 1962. Then he started working as the store manager for the Al Schoen Shoe Store in Lincoln. In 1973, he began working at Lincoln Development Center and retired from the Center in 1999.
 

He was a kind, caring, and gentle man who loved to fish, enjoyed reading, and built his own computers. He enjoyed watching cartoons up until the very end.

Bob is survived by his son Duane (Janet) Freeman of Redding, California; three grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; and lifelong companion, Linda Squires.

A memorial service for Bob will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 1, 2022, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln. A visitation will be held two hours prior from 9 a.m.-11a.m. His ashes will be buried after the service at Zion Cemetery in Lincoln.

Memorial donations may be made in Bob’s name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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