Archived May 18, 2005

CHESTNUT -- Elizabeth A. Kiliman, 94, of Chestnut, died Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 10:25 p.m. at Vonderlieth Living Center in Mount Pulaski.

Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski, with the Rev. David Bueltmann and the Rev. Donald Kirchner officiating. Visitation will be one hour before the service at the funeral home. [Note: This is a change from a previously announced time and place for the funeral.]

Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery.

Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Kiliman farmed with her husband at Chestnut.

She was born May 1, 1911, at Cantrall to Wilhelm and Augusta Wapneski Fedora. She married Emil Kiliman on Sept. 19, 1942. He died April 28, 1971.

She is survived by one son, David (and Susan) Kiliman of Springfield; two grandsons, Bryant and Daymon Kiliman of Springfield; and one sister, Margaret McCormick of LaJolla, Calif.

She was also preceded in death by two sisters and an infant son.

She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Chestnut and the Home Bureau.

Memorials may be made to her church or to Chestnut Ambulance.