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Margaret Lawrence
1937 - 2025
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1937
DIED
2025
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Margaret Lawrence Obituary
Born: November 13, 1937 in Dixon, IL
Died: November 12, 2025 in Champaign, IL
Margaret L. Lawrence, 87 of 705 Pecan Tree Street, Urbana, IL 61802 died on November 12, 2025 in Champaign, IL.
Visitation will be on Friday November 21, 2025 from 10am to 11am at Horner-Merritt Funeral Home in Mendota, IL. Funeral services will follow at 11am. Internment will be at Wisner Cemetery in Ophir Township.
Mrs. Lawrence was born November 13, 1937 in Dixon, IL to Fredrick and Ruth (Raffenberger) Rammelt. She married Raymond L. Lawrence on November 1, 1969 in Mendota, IL.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Mendota where she served as a Deacon, past president of King's Daughters and was a member of Presbyterian Women. She was also a former member of the Mendota Unit of HCE Home Extension.
Survivors include four children: Philip (Sarah) Clark of Norfolk, VA, Diane (David) Eddy of Sherrill, IA, Luann (John Gallagher) Clark of Huntington Beach, CA, John (Claudia) Lawrence of Champaign, IL; five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and one step great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband and parents.
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