Albert L. Waller of Newman died at his home in Newman on Monday Feb. 16, 2015.
Albert was one of seven spirited children born on a farm south of Redmon on Aug. 4, 1919 to the late Leonard and Margaret Ryan Waller. He married Kathryn Carroll on Feb. 20, 1950. She preceded him in death on Dec. 12, 1982. He was also preceded in death by two infants; son-in-law, Tony Gordon; brothers, Leo, Raymond and Eugene and sisters, Eileen Smith and Loretto Nagorka.
Albert is survived by his daughters, Mary Waller and Carolyn Gordon and his brother, Harold Waller.
Albert attended a one-room country school named after the Waller family and graduated from Redmon High School in 1938. He and brother, Eugene, went into the U.S. Army together in 1942 when World War II broke out and they were discharged in 1945 when the war was over.
After the war, he began farming with his older brother, Leo, and later with younger brother, Harold. Albert continued farming south of Newman on his own in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Albert purchased and farmed the family farm near Redmon that had been in the Waller family for more than 100 years.
Ab attended the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Villa Grove.
He was a member of the VFW Post 3637 of Oakland, the American Legion Post 977 of Brocton and the Edgar County Farm Bureau.
Published in the Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette. Feb . 18, 2015
Albert was one of seven spirited children born on a farm south of Redmon on Aug. 4, 1919 to the late Leonard and Margaret Ryan Waller. He married Kathryn Carroll on Feb. 20, 1950. She preceded him in death on Dec. 12, 1982. He was also preceded in death by two infants; son-in-law, Tony Gordon; brothers, Leo, Raymond and Eugene and sisters, Eileen Smith and Loretto Nagorka.
Albert is survived by his daughters, Mary Waller and Carolyn Gordon and his brother, Harold Waller.
Albert attended a one-room country school named after the Waller family and graduated from Redmon High School in 1938. He and brother, Eugene, went into the U.S. Army together in 1942 when World War II broke out and they were discharged in 1945 when the war was over.
After the war, he began farming with his older brother, Leo, and later with younger brother, Harold. Albert continued farming south of Newman on his own in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Albert purchased and farmed the family farm near Redmon that had been in the Waller family for more than 100 years.
Ab attended the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Villa Grove.
He was a member of the VFW Post 3637 of Oakland, the American Legion Post 977 of Brocton and the Edgar County Farm Bureau.
Published in the Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette. Feb . 18, 2015
Albert L. Waller of Newman died at his home in Newman on Monday Feb. 16, 2015.
Albert was one of seven spirited children born on a farm south of Redmon on Aug. 4, 1919 to the late Leonard and Margaret Ryan Waller. He married Kathryn Carroll on Feb. 20, 1950. She preceded him in death on Dec. 12, 1982. He was also preceded in death by two infants; son-in-law, Tony Gordon; brothers, Leo, Raymond and Eugene and sisters, Eileen Smith and Loretto Nagorka.
Albert is survived by his daughters, Mary Waller and Carolyn Gordon and his brother, Harold Waller.
Albert attended a one-room country school named after the Waller family and graduated from Redmon High School in 1938. He and brother, Eugene, went into the U.S. Army together in 1942 when World War II broke out and they were discharged in 1945 when the war was over.
After the war, he began farming with his older brother, Leo, and later with younger brother, Harold. Albert continued farming south of Newman on his own in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Albert purchased and farmed the family farm near Redmon that had been in the Waller family for more than 100 years.
Ab attended the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Villa Grove.
He was a member of the VFW Post 3637 of Oakland, the American Legion Post 977 of Brocton and the Edgar County Farm Bureau.
Published in the Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette. Feb . 18, 2015
Albert was one of seven spirited children born on a farm south of Redmon on Aug. 4, 1919 to the late Leonard and Margaret Ryan Waller. He married Kathryn Carroll on Feb. 20, 1950. She preceded him in death on Dec. 12, 1982. He was also preceded in death by two infants; son-in-law, Tony Gordon; brothers, Leo, Raymond and Eugene and sisters, Eileen Smith and Loretto Nagorka.
Albert is survived by his daughters, Mary Waller and Carolyn Gordon and his brother, Harold Waller.
Albert attended a one-room country school named after the Waller family and graduated from Redmon High School in 1938. He and brother, Eugene, went into the U.S. Army together in 1942 when World War II broke out and they were discharged in 1945 when the war was over.
After the war, he began farming with his older brother, Leo, and later with younger brother, Harold. Albert continued farming south of Newman on his own in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Albert purchased and farmed the family farm near Redmon that had been in the Waller family for more than 100 years.
Ab attended the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Villa Grove.
He was a member of the VFW Post 3637 of Oakland, the American Legion Post 977 of Brocton and the Edgar County Farm Bureau.
Published in the Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette. Feb . 18, 2015
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