NORMAN BOCK

Funeral service for Norman Edward Bock, 530 Louis, will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Jeffrey Sippy will officiate, with burial in Hanover Cemetery.

Bock, 87, died Sunday, Nov. 30, 1997, at Jackson Manor in Jackson.

He was born May 29, 1910, in Cape Girardeau, son of William G. and Anna Bertling Bock. He and Sevella Wagoner were married Aug. 13, 1949, at Jackson.

Bock was employed at International Shoe Co. 50 years. He was a member of Hanover Lutheran Church, was active in Youth Baseball League, and was chainman for Southeast Missouri State University football team 15 years. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

He was the last surviving great-grandson of Daniel Bertling, one of the founders of Hanover Church. Land for the first church, which was located at Delwin and Melrose, was donated by the Bertling family in 1847.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Patricia Schlegel and Peggy Fiedler of Cape Girardeau; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by four brothers and a sister.