LINCOLN ---- Alvis Zepho Laughner, 89, of 503 College St., Lincoln, died at 9:55 p.m. Friday, (April 1, 1983) at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home, the Rev. Don Galehr officiating. Burial will be in Zion Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
He was born March 11, 1894, at Flora, a son of Henry and Althea Maxwell Laughner. He married Emma Grace Colwell Dec. 6, 1916, at Springfield. She survives.
Also surviving are three daughters, Mary Jane Dunn, Riverton, and Marguerite Overbey and Helen Overbey, both of Lincoln; a sister, Cloriena C. Morris, Bloomington; 10 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters.
Mr. Laughner was a retired Logan County farmer and a member of the First Baptist Church, Lincoln.
Memorials may be made to the church.
--- The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) 03 Apr 1983, Sun p. 96
Family Members
Parents
William Henry Lauchner
1852–1938
Althea Jane Maxwell Lauchner
1857–1937
Spouse
Emma Grace Coldwell Laughner
1896–1996
Siblings
Millie May Lauchner Newby
1879–1966
Children
Mary Jane Laughner Dunn
1917–2016
Helen C. Laughner Overbey
1918–2014
Marguerite Volora Laughner Overbey
1920–2006
