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body was cremated. No services are scheduled.
Arrangements were handled by Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral
Home.
Mr. DeFrees was a support service worker at Lincoln Developmental
Center and was a construction worker for the Laborers union.
He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
He was born April 8, 1946, in Springfield to Roy and Mildred
Reynolds DeFrees. He married Barbara "B.J." Stansbury on
Aug. 10, 2001, in Lincoln.
He is survived by his wife, of Lincoln; one son, Robert Rice of
Mount Pulaski; one daughter, Cody (and Ronald) Shawgo of Lincoln;
and one sister, Wanda Haberland of Emden; and five grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Betty.
He was a member of American Legion Post 263 and Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Memorials may be made to Logan County Relay For Life.
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