Delmer Lee Rhodebeck

    Delmer Lee Rhodebeck, 80, formerly of the Keota and Washington area, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, in the Alhambra Care Center in Alhambra, Ill.

    Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, at Beatty Funeral Home in Washington with Bob Preston officiating. Burial will be in the Keota Cemetery. Family will receive friends two hours before the service Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to a charity of the donor?s choice.

    Mr. Rhodebeck was born Nov. 19, 1930, in Keota, the son of Harold Evert and Ethel Marie (Forney) Rhodebeck. He married Thelma Louise Schafer on Nov. 14, 1948, in Fairfield.

For the full obituary, see the Jan. 4 edition of The Washington Evening Journal