Warren Beckley
Funeral services for Warren Beckley, 68, a lifetime figure in Fairbury activities, including 24 years as a businessman, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 29, 1969, at the First Presbyterian church with Rev. Alan Good officiating.
Interment will be in Graceland cemetery under direction of Duffy-Pils Memorial Homes. Pallbearers will be Mike Addis, John Ziegenhorn, Ralph Hoffman, Jerry Schahrer, Jim Paternoster and Duane Rathbun.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 4 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home and at the church for one hour before the services.
Mr. Beckley died unexpectedly in hs sleep Monday morning. The previous evening he had attended the dinner meeting of the bridge club to which he belonged, and although complaining of not feeling well, had still recorded the evening's high score.
He was a skilled bridge player but it was only one of his many avocations. He was also an avid hunter, fisherman, gardener and in later years he also was interested in wildlife propagation.
Fore more than a quarter-century, h had been one of the prime movers as Fairbury-area men annually opened and closed the Boy Scout camp on Cache Lake on the U.S.-Canada border near International Falls.
Mr. Beckley began his business career as a cabinet maker. He opened his business in 1946 and soon expanded to floor covering from the location at 107-07 West Locust in the building where Walton's Department store had previously had their John Deere implement business. He retired in 1970 after undergoing an artificial heart valve implant at the May Clinic, one of the very first procedures of that type.
He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Fuller, on June 19, 1943 and they had just celebrated their 46th anniversary last week.
She survives, as do three brothers and two sisters and a half-sister. they are William Beckley of Champaign, Alden Beckley of Maui, Hawaii, and Robert Beckley of Fairbury; Helen Gottier of Rockville, COnn.; Charlene Hawley of Grants Pass, Ore.; and Lydia Lois Beckley of Bloomington.
Born in Fairbury of April 6, 1921 to John and Fredericka Armbruster Beckley, he was educated in Fairbury schools. His father had been a Fairbury merchant.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a half-brother and a half-sister.
Mr. Beckley was a member of the Fairbury Masonic Lodge, Indian Creek country club and Knoll Lodge.
Memorials may be made to the Heart fund.
Note: Nelson Warren Beckley married Mary Arlene Fuller, daughter of Rueben and Madge Opperman Fuller.
Funeral services for Warren Beckley, 68, a lifetime figure in Fairbury activities, including 24 years as a businessman, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 29, 1969, at the First Presbyterian church with Rev. Alan Good officiating.
Interment will be in Graceland cemetery under direction of Duffy-Pils Memorial Homes. Pallbearers will be Mike Addis, John Ziegenhorn, Ralph Hoffman, Jerry Schahrer, Jim Paternoster and Duane Rathbun.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 4 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home and at the church for one hour before the services.
Mr. Beckley died unexpectedly in hs sleep Monday morning. The previous evening he had attended the dinner meeting of the bridge club to which he belonged, and although complaining of not feeling well, had still recorded the evening's high score.
He was a skilled bridge player but it was only one of his many avocations. He was also an avid hunter, fisherman, gardener and in later years he also was interested in wildlife propagation.
Fore more than a quarter-century, h had been one of the prime movers as Fairbury-area men annually opened and closed the Boy Scout camp on Cache Lake on the U.S.-Canada border near International Falls.
Mr. Beckley began his business career as a cabinet maker. He opened his business in 1946 and soon expanded to floor covering from the location at 107-07 West Locust in the building where Walton's Department store had previously had their John Deere implement business. He retired in 1970 after undergoing an artificial heart valve implant at the May Clinic, one of the very first procedures of that type.
He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Fuller, on June 19, 1943 and they had just celebrated their 46th anniversary last week.
She survives, as do three brothers and two sisters and a half-sister. they are William Beckley of Champaign, Alden Beckley of Maui, Hawaii, and Robert Beckley of Fairbury; Helen Gottier of Rockville, COnn.; Charlene Hawley of Grants Pass, Ore.; and Lydia Lois Beckley of Bloomington.
Born in Fairbury of April 6, 1921 to John and Fredericka Armbruster Beckley, he was educated in Fairbury schools. His father had been a Fairbury merchant.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a half-brother and a half-sister.
Mr. Beckley was a member of the Fairbury Masonic Lodge, Indian Creek country club and Knoll Lodge.
Memorials may be made to the Heart fund.
Note: Nelson Warren Beckley married Mary Arlene Fuller, daughter of Rueben and Madge Opperman Fuller.
Warren Beckley
Funeral services for Warren Beckley, 68, a lifetime figure in Fairbury activities, including 24 years as a businessman, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 29, 1969, at the First Presbyterian church with Rev. Alan Good officiating.
Interment will be in Graceland cemetery under direction of Duffy-Pils Memorial Homes. Pallbearers will be Mike Addis, John Ziegenhorn, Ralph Hoffman, Jerry Schahrer, Jim Paternoster and Duane Rathbun.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 4 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home and at the church for one hour before the services.
Mr. Beckley died unexpectedly in hs sleep Monday morning. The previous evening he had attended the dinner meeting of the bridge club to which he belonged, and although complaining of not feeling well, had still recorded the evening's high score.
He was a skilled bridge player but it was only one of his many avocations. He was also an avid hunter, fisherman, gardener and in later years he also was interested in wildlife propagation.
Fore more than a quarter-century, h had been one of the prime movers as Fairbury-area men annually opened and closed the Boy Scout camp on Cache Lake on the U.S.-Canada border near International Falls.
Mr. Beckley began his business career as a cabinet maker. He opened his business in 1946 and soon expanded to floor covering from the location at 107-07 West Locust in the building where Walton's Department store had previously had their John Deere implement business. He retired in 1970 after undergoing an artificial heart valve implant at the May Clinic, one of the very first procedures of that type.
He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Fuller, on June 19, 1943 and they had just celebrated their 46th anniversary last week.
She survives, as do three brothers and two sisters and a half-sister. they are William Beckley of Champaign, Alden Beckley of Maui, Hawaii, and Robert Beckley of Fairbury; Helen Gottier of Rockville, COnn.; Charlene Hawley of Grants Pass, Ore.; and Lydia Lois Beckley of Bloomington.
Born in Fairbury of April 6, 1921 to John and Fredericka Armbruster Beckley, he was educated in Fairbury schools. His father had been a Fairbury merchant.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a half-brother and a half-sister.
Mr. Beckley was a member of the Fairbury Masonic Lodge, Indian Creek country club and Knoll Lodge.
Memorials may be made to the Heart fund.
Note: Nelson Warren Beckley married Mary Arlene Fuller, daughter of Rueben and Madge Opperman Fuller.
Funeral services for Warren Beckley, 68, a lifetime figure in Fairbury activities, including 24 years as a businessman, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 29, 1969, at the First Presbyterian church with Rev. Alan Good officiating.
Interment will be in Graceland cemetery under direction of Duffy-Pils Memorial Homes. Pallbearers will be Mike Addis, John Ziegenhorn, Ralph Hoffman, Jerry Schahrer, Jim Paternoster and Duane Rathbun.
Visitation will be Wednesday from 4 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home and at the church for one hour before the services.
Mr. Beckley died unexpectedly in hs sleep Monday morning. The previous evening he had attended the dinner meeting of the bridge club to which he belonged, and although complaining of not feeling well, had still recorded the evening's high score.
He was a skilled bridge player but it was only one of his many avocations. He was also an avid hunter, fisherman, gardener and in later years he also was interested in wildlife propagation.
Fore more than a quarter-century, h had been one of the prime movers as Fairbury-area men annually opened and closed the Boy Scout camp on Cache Lake on the U.S.-Canada border near International Falls.
Mr. Beckley began his business career as a cabinet maker. He opened his business in 1946 and soon expanded to floor covering from the location at 107-07 West Locust in the building where Walton's Department store had previously had their John Deere implement business. He retired in 1970 after undergoing an artificial heart valve implant at the May Clinic, one of the very first procedures of that type.
He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Fuller, on June 19, 1943 and they had just celebrated their 46th anniversary last week.
She survives, as do three brothers and two sisters and a half-sister. they are William Beckley of Champaign, Alden Beckley of Maui, Hawaii, and Robert Beckley of Fairbury; Helen Gottier of Rockville, COnn.; Charlene Hawley of Grants Pass, Ore.; and Lydia Lois Beckley of Bloomington.
Born in Fairbury of April 6, 1921 to John and Fredericka Armbruster Beckley, he was educated in Fairbury schools. His father had been a Fairbury merchant.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a half-brother and a half-sister.
Mr. Beckley was a member of the Fairbury Masonic Lodge, Indian Creek country club and Knoll Lodge.
Memorials may be made to the Heart fund.
Note: Nelson Warren Beckley married Mary Arlene Fuller, daughter of Rueben and Madge Opperman Fuller.
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