Norman "Pete" Feltmeyer

Norman “Pete” D. Feltmeyer, age 86, of Lanark, Illinois, passed away at FHN Hospital in Freeport, Illinois on Friday, January 15, 2016. A funeral service will be held 10:30 a.m., Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Lanark United Methodist Church in Lanark with Pastor Jarrod Severing officiating. Burial will take place in the Lanark Cemetery, Lanark. Visitation will be held 4:00 – 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 22, 2016 at the Lanark United Methodist Church, with a masonic service held at 3:30 p.m. prior to visitation. Memorials may be given to the Lanark Volunteer Fire Department, Honor Flight, and the Lanark United Methodist Church in Pete’s memory.
Pete was born May 30, 1929, in Freeport, the son of George and Hermena (Bantli) Feltmeyer. He attended Mt. Juliette Country School, Stockton, and graduated from Stockton High School with the Class of 1948. Pete operated the Lanark Gulf Gas Station, worked as service manager for Warner’s Farm Service in Lanark, and later drove truck for Roger’s Ready Mix in Lanark, and then Fischer Excavating, retiring in 2004. On July 1, 1955, Pete married the love of his life Lorraine Kant at the Warren Methodist Church in Warren, Illinois. They celebrated sixty years of marriage.
Pete was a member of the Plum River Masonic Lodge #544 in Stockton where he was a 32nd Degree Mason, Lanark Volunteer Fire Department, Lanark City Council Alderman, and the Lanark United Methodist Church. He enjoyed dancing when he was young, woodworking, going to the river on weekends to camp with friends, and spending time on his houseboat that he built with his brother-in-law, Bud Kant. Most of all Pete was most noted for never missing any of his grandchildren’s sports or music events at Eastland. Pete especially enjoyed spending time these last two years with two new great-grandchildren, Benton and Ryan.
Pete will be dearly missed by his loving wife of sixty years, Lorraine; son Mike (Darcie) Feltmeyer of Lanark; three grandchildren, Jordan (Cindy) Feltmeyer of Lanark, Caleb (Amanda) Feltmeyer of Winnebago, Logan Feltmeyer (Eric Gibbs) of Lanark; two great-grandchildren, Benton Michael and Ryan Autumn Feltmeyer; four sisters in-law, Marie Kant, Donna Feltmeyer, Pauline Feltmeyer, and LaVonne Feltmeyer; numerous nieces and nephews, and special friends, Jerry and Jan Frye; Dr. Ken Eichholz Jr. and Toni Warfield plus four granddogs. Pete was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Marie Radford, brothers, Hernando (Ozzie), Allen, Nolan, Paul and Herman Feltmeyer. Brothers-in law, Lowell “Bud” Kant, Jack Radford, Leo Kant, Harold Carlson, Melvin Heidenreich, sisters-in-law Lucille Feltmeyer, Marge Heidenreich, Mildred Carlson, Virginia Murphy, nephews, Jimmy Feltmeyer, Bob Feltmeyer, Neil Heidenreich, Rodney Heidenreich, and great niece, Jessica McPeek.