JACK BECK
URBANA- Oliver Jack Beck, 66, of 1815 Willow View Road, Urbana,IL died at 5:41 p.m. Saturday (March 5, 1994) at home.

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Mittendorf-Calvert-Morgan Funeral Home, 2400 Galen Drive, Champaign,IL. The Rev. Glenn Kalkbrenner will officiate. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign,IL., with military rites by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5520.
Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Mr. Beck was born April 28, 1927, at Mahomet,IL, a son of Arthur F. and Bernice Smith Beck.

Survivors include a foster son; two foster grandsons; and two brothers, William Beck and Robert Beck, both of Champaign,IL. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Joyce Carol Beck.
Mr. Beck owned Beck's Country Shoppe, Urbana,IL. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II. He was a member of St. Peter's United Church of Christ, 905 South Russell, Champaign,IL.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.

URBANA MAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK
Urbana- A 66 year old Urbana man died of an apparent heart attack while peeling potatoes in his home Saturday afternoon. A Champaign County sheriff's deputy's report said a neighbor of Jack Beck's notices smoke and flames coming from his condominium at 1815 Willow View Road, Urbana about 5:25 p.m.

The neighbor went in and found a small fire on the stove which he quickly extinguished. When the smoke cleared, the report said, he saw Mr. Beck sitting across the room on a stool at the sink. He was not conscious.

Deputy Coroner Bill Wilkinson said Mr. Beck had suffered two massive heart attacks in December and had undergone open heart surgeries. "He had a pot on the stove and a plastic lid on the pot caught fire. He was across the room at the sink, still sitting in his chair peeling potatoes," Wilkinson said.
Mr. Beck owned Beck's County Shoppe, Urbana,IL. His obituary appears on page A-13.

Submitted by: Pat Maley-Curtis