| Blaine Lingafelter
Blaine W. Lingafelter, 98, of Aledo, died Wednesday, Oct. 8,
2003 at Cottage Hospital, Galesburg.
Funeral Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Catherine's
Catholic Church, Aledo. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery,
Keithsburg, Ill., where graveside military services will be conducted by
the Mercer County VFW Post 1571. Visitation will be from 8:30 to 9:30
a.m. Saturday at St. Catherine's Catholic Church, where a memorial fund
has been established. Fippinger Funeral Home, Aledo, is in charge of arrangements.
Blaine was born May 18, 1905, in Buffalo Prairie, Ill., a son of
Wilburn and Ellen Welch Lingafelter. He attended the Peniel, Prouty and
New Boston schools. He married Gerarda O'Dea on Oct. 6, 1943, in Aledo.
She died in 2001.
Blaine was a U.S. Army Veteran serving as a firefighter. He
farmed east of Aledo for many years until moving to Aledo in 1990. He
continued to work on the farm after retiring and operated the Mercer
County Recycling Center in Aledo until its closing in 2000.
He was a member of St. Catherine's Catholic Church, where he
distributed communion to the elderly and homebound.
Survivors include his daughters and son-in-law, Jean and Ron
DiGiacomo, Arvada, Colo., and Mary Coulter, New Boston; sons and
daughters-in-law, John and Sharon Lingafelter, Stephen and Sandy
Lingafelter, and Michael and Cindy Lingafelter, all of Aledo; 13
grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; sister, Olive Stallings, Aledo;
and brothers, Scott and Don Lingafelter, both of Aledo. He was preceded
in death by his parents, wife, two sisters and two brothers.
(Rock Island Argus, Friday, October 10, 2003) |
