Jerry W. Alberts
LINCOLN, ILL. ? Services for Jerry W. Alberts, 70, Lincoln, will be at 9:30 a.m. today at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lincoln. Burial will be in Old Union Cemetery, Lincoln.
Mr. Alberts died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004, at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield.
He was born April 3, 1933, in Lincoln, the son of Henry W. and Lorene (Bollin) Alberts.
Mr. Alberts was a member of the 1952 Kansas University national basketball championship team and the 1953 Final Four team.
Mr. Alberts was guidance director at Lincoln Community High School and a tennis and basketball coach for 34 years. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1957.
He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Lincoln Elks Club, Logan County Board of Realtors and Illinois Basketball Coaches Assn.
He married Hazel Rademaker on June 1, 1959, in Davenport, Iowa. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include four sons, Chuck, Tacoma, Wash., Bill, Manos, Colo., Bob, Denton, Texas, and John, Highland Park; and three grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the church or to Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln.
Holland & Barry Ltd., Lincoln, is in charge of arrangements.