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 Robert
'Bill' Howe
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[April 13, 2007]
MOUNT
PULASKI -- Robert W. “Bill” Howe, 77, of Mount
Pulaski died Sunday, April 8, 2007, at 2:13 a.m.
at Decatur Memorial Hospital, Decatur.
Visitation was 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski. His funeral was at 10 a.m. Thursday at
the funeral home, with the Rev. Russell Pattie
officiating. |
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Burial, with military rites, was in Lake Bank
Cemetery, rural Mount Pulaski. Mr. Howe was a
retired farmer and excavator.
He served from 1950 to 1954 in the U.S. Air
Force, where he was a staff sergeant.
He was born July 28, 1929, in Mount Pulaski
to Robert Lee and A. Ruth Wubben Howe. He
married Waltraud Martha Juette in Simmershausen,
Germany, on Sept. 4, 1954.
He is survived by his wife, "Wally," of Mount
Pulaski; one son, Greg (and Charissa) Howe of
Mount Pulaski; one daughter, Julie (and Carl)
Oglesby of Lake Fork; two brothers, Harold Dean
(and Camille) Howe of Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Jerry (and Karmen) Howe of Versailles, Mo.; and
six grandchildren, Katherine "Katie," Kristen,
Kimberly and Kelsey Oglesby of Lake Fork and
Breanna and Roman Howe of Mount Pulaski.
He was preceded in death by his parents. |
He was a member of Mount Pulaski Zion
Lutheran Church; American Legion Post 447, where
he was a past commander and the finance officer
for many years; Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
777; and a past member of the Lions Club.
He served on the Logan County Board and was a
former Laenna Township supervisor.
Memorials may be made to American Legion Post
447.
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