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Visitation:
5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, June 12, 2023 at Peasley
Funeral Home in Lincoln
Service:
6 p.m. Monday at the funeral home
Funeral home:
Peasley Funeral Home, Lincoln
Obituary
Evelyn Jean Belcher, 96, passed away
at the H. & J. Vonderleith Nursing Home on Friday,
June 2, 2023. She was the daughter of George
Oltmanns, Sr. and Hazel Oyer Oltmanns. She was born
on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, 1927.
Evelyn graduated from Lincoln Community High School
in 1945. She received an AA from Stephens College in
Columbia, MO, where she majored in radio. She worked
for disk jockey Gil Newsome at KWK in St. Louis as a
script writer and coordinator for live shows
broadcast from Kiel Auditorium.
In 1947 Evelyn married Joseph F.
Belcher and was employed by the Law Office of Lyman
Magas. She lived and held jobs all over the country
including Century 21 realtor associate; writer and
editor for KDFI in Cedar Falls, Iowa; executive
secretary for Director of Education at First
Methodist Church in Decatur, executive secretary to
Michael Kasser, the owner/president of Technopulp,
Inc. in Montclair, NJ; columnist for Centralia
Sentinel; and executive secretary to the curator of
the Alamo for over 13 years.
Evelyn was a founding member of Theatre 7 in
Decatur. |
In 1971, she graduated from Montclair
State College with a BA in Drama. She directed a New
York University student film for cable television
with John Payne at the Sullivan Little Theatre. She
also acted in plays at the Montclair Dramatic Club
with Olympia Dukakis.
She is survived by her son, Joseph D.
Belcher; daughter-in-law, Dr. Barbara Belcher;
granddaughters, Jasmine and Justine; three
great-grandsons, Logan, Coleton, and Jaxxon; niece
Sheryl (Leif) Pedersen; great-nephew, Dane Pedersen;
nephew, Clark Lyle (Dana) Oltmanns; and
great-nephew, Marty Oltmanns.
Evelyn was preceded in death by her husband;
parents; brother, George “Bud” Oltmanns, Jr.; infant
daughter, Madeline Renee Belcher; infant son, George
Geoffrey Belcher; and grandparents: Jacob and Anna
Oltmanns, and Jacob and Clara Oyer.
Per her request, Evelyn’s body is being donated to
science through the (AGA) Anatomical Gift
Association of Illinois and will be buried at a
later date.
Services will be held at Peasley Funeral Home in
Lincoln on Monday, June 12, 2023. Visitation will
begin at 5:00 p.m., followed by a Memorial Service
at 6:00 p.m. Mr. Maurice Stribling will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, Evelyn wished that her memory be
honored by people spending time with their families
and praising their blessings.
Final arrangements are entrusted with Peasley
Funeral Home of Lincoln.
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