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 Aaron
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[SEPT.
18,
2006] MOUNT
PULASKI -- Aaron P. Riggs, 77, of Mount
Pulaski died Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006, at
7:05 a.m. at Vonderlieth Living Center.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski.
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funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at
Zion Lutheran Church in Mount Pulaski,
with the Rev. Mark Drew officiating.
Burial will be in Mount Pulaski
Cemetery.
Mr. Riggs was a retired trucker and
grain elevator operator.
He was a veteran.
He was born May 12, 1929, in Delavan to
Howard and Ermel Kutz Riggs. He married
Gertrude Maxheimer in Mount Pulaski on
Sept. 14, 1958.
He is survived by his wife, of Mount
Pulaski; three daughters, Jean (and Gary)
Baumhardt of Normal, Judith (and Charles)
Noteboom of Hurst, Texas, and Melanie
Riggs and companion Clayton George of
Lincoln; two sisters, Virginia Casto of
Roseville, Mich., and Dorothy Haseley of
Lincoln; nine grandchildren, Alissa Simms,
Matthew Baumhardt, Cory Baumhardt, Jared
Baumhardt, Austin Noteboom, Lindsey
Noteboom, Shane Noteboom, Conner Noteboom
and Chelsey George; and two
great-grandchildren, Joseph Ellis Simms
and Madeleine Elise Simms.
One sister and one brother preceded him
in death.
He was a member of Mount Pulaski Zion
Lutheran Church, a 50-year member of
American Legion Post 447 and a 35-year
member of the Midwest Truckers Association
of Illinois.
Memorials may be made to American
Legion Post 447, Zion Lutheran Church of
Mount Pulaski or the American Cancer
Society.
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