Logan County IL Archives Obituaries.....Bock, William Edward 1987
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Lincoln Courier, 1987
Obituary of William Edward Bock

Transcription by William L. Stephenson, Jr., - Historian, Bock Family 
Association

On file in the Lincoln Public Library

The Lincoln Courier, Lincoln, Illinois
Wednesday 16 September 1987 pg 6 col 5

Funeral services for William E,(dward) Bock, 77 of Lincoln, who died at 5:30 
a.m. Tuesday Sept 15, 1987, at Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, will be 
at 10 a.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church with the Revs. Charles Luttinen 
and Don Beckman officiating.  Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Lincoln.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Holland & Barry Funeral Home.

Mr. Bock, who helped organize Broadwell District 68, was president of its 
school board 21 years.  He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church and the 
church's brotherhood.

He was a 40-year member of the Illinois Farm Bureau Farm Management Service 
and a member of the Farm Bureau.

He also was a member of the Logan County Fair Board and was a fair swine 
superintendent for 37 years.  Also, he was a member of the Lincoln Community 
High School Agricultural Advisory Council.

He was active in CROP fund drives, and was an officer of the Logan County Ag 
Toastmasters Club.

Mr. Bock was born Nov. 2, 1909, in Beason, a son of Henry and Wilhelmine Awe 
Bock.  He married Emma P. Otte on June 18, 1940, in Lincoln.  She survives.  
Also surviving are a son, Daniel, Lincoln; two daughters, Mary Ann Landon, 
Crystal Lake, and Lois Dockery, Little Rock, Ark.; three brothers, Walter, 
Carl, Adam, all of Lincoln; as sister Hilda Bock, Lincoln; and five 
grandchildren.

One brother preceded him in death.

Memorials may be made to the Immanuel Lutheran Church Special Fund.

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