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Name: Charles Levon Luckenbill (Nickname = Levon)
Spouse: Elizabeth Ann Jones Luckenbill (Nickname = Betty)
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Glen Ellyn, IL
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1935 Attended from through

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Yes   

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Birthdate: May 4, 1917   
Date of Death: December 29, 1963  
       

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Word has been received of the death of Charles Levon Luckenbill at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, December 29 [1963] in the Community Hospital at Geneva, Illinois. He had entered the hospital on Friday after a heart attack and died following a second attack.

He was born in Columbia City May 4, 1917 to Gideon and Clella Sharpe Luckenbill. He was graduated from the Columbia high school with the class of 1935 where he participated in band, orchestra, glee club, choir, speech events, and was on the basketball and baseball teams.

He was graduated from college at Fayette, Missouri majoring in music. He served with the Air Force from August 1942 until he was discharged in November 1946 with the rank of major.

He was high school band director at Marceline, Missouri and Grinnell, Iowa for several years and for the past three years has been head of the music department at Lyon-Healy, music publishers at Chicago.

He and his family, his wife the former Betty Ann Jones of New Camboia, Missouri and daughters, Janet Ann a senior in high school and Deborah Ruth, 12, lived in Glen Ellyn, Ill. A suburb of Chicago.

He was director of the youth and adult choirs in the First Congregational Church at Glen Ellyn of which he and his family were members.

Funeral rites were at the church, December 31 with burial in the Allerton Memorial Cemetery near Glen Ellyn.

Surviving are the wife and daughters at Glen Ellyn; the mother, Mrs. Clella Luckenbill, city; a brother, Lewis Luckenbill, Warsaw. He was preceded in death by his father, Gideon Luckenbill March 20, 1952, who was manager of the Sherman White Company for many years.

Attending the services from this area were Mrs. Paul Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Graves, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. Omer Kindig and Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Grove.

Levon was a grandson of the late Rev. Lewis A. Luckenbill, a former Church of God minister and partner in the undertaking firm of Luckenbill and Stickler.

Obituary in Columbia City Post Saturday January 4, 1964.

NOTE: Levon Luchenbill was one of the three CCHS alumni who wrote the CCHS "FIGHT SONG" in 1935. The other two members of the class of 1935, who wrote the song were Bill Bloom and Franklin Waterfall. This information was gleaned from the 1943 Columbian, page 36.
 
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