VanBlaricum, K.W.

Family/Spouse: ?, L.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: VANB.L001
• _FGRAVE: 74776597
• Funeral: Summers-Kistler Funeral Home, Olney, Richland County, Illinois

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Leon VanBlaricum, 82, of Noble, died at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2011, at Burgin Manor in Olney.

Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Friday at Summers-Kistler Funeral Home in Olney. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home with Jim Beam officiating. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery in rural Noble.

Mr. VanBlaricum was born September 15, 1928, in Decker Township, the son of Edgar and Bernice (Schnell) VanBlaricum. He married Dolores Jean Robards. She preceded him in death in 1969. He married Audrey Trowbridge Gibson on October 22, 1970. She survives.

He was a retired farmer. He was a member of Freedom Baptist Church.

Mr. VanBlaricum is survived by his wife, Audrey VanBlaricum, of Noble; son, Kenneth Wayne VanBlaricum and his wife, Lyndal, of Noble; son, Brian Craig VanBlaricum and his wife, Carol, of Noble; daughter, Vana Venise Carlyle and her husband, Don, of Noble; stepson, Joe Gibson and his wife, DeAnna, of Midland, Texas; stepdaughter, Debra Eastin and her husband, Casey, of Flora; stepdaughter, Rebecca Schnautz and her husband, Larry Lee, of Clay City; daughter-in-law, Nancy VanBlaricum, of Noble; brother, Charles Harold VanBlaricum, of Noble; 14 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Edgar and Bernice VanBlaricum; first wife, Dolores VanBlaricum; and son, Steven Leon VanBlaricum.

Memorials may be made to Freedom Baptist Church.

Died:
Leon VanBlaricum, 82, of Noble, died at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2011, at Burgin Manor in Olney.

Leon married Robards, Dolores Jean. Dolores was born in 1930; died in 1969. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: ROBA.D001

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• Reference Number: VANB.E004
• _FGRAVE: 34257983

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Ed L. VanBlaricum, 74, of Noble rt 1, died at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Richland Memorial Hospital.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Noble Chapel of the Cardascio-Easley Funeral Home, with Pastor Philip R. Colburn officiating.

Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery near Noble.

He was born Sept. 19,1900 in Clary County, Illinois. On Feb. 25, 1922, he married Bernice Schnell in Olney.

Surviving are his wife; two sons, Leon and Harold, both of Noble; seven grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; four brothers, James of Mattoon, Verle of Mattoon, Albert of Olney, and Glenn of Princeton; and two sisters, Mrs. Effie Schnell of Noble and Mrs. Wanda Patterson of Denver City, Tex.

Mr. VanBlaricum was a member of the Noble Seventh Day Adventist Church.

From obituary in The Olney Daily Mail

Edward married Schnell, Bernice O. in Feb 1922. Bernice was born on 26 Sep 1902; died on 21 Aug 1996 in Burgin Manor Nursing Home, Olney, Richland County, Illinois; was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Noble, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: SCHN.B005
• _FGRAVE: 34258000