LINCOLN -- Harold Donald Teichman, 84, of Lincoln, died Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004, at 11:30 p.m. at his home.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Holland and Barry Funeral Home.
His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln, with the Rev. Mark Carnahan officiating.
Burial, with graveside military rites, will be in Zion Cemetery.
Mr. Teichman had been employed by Caterpillar and Cutler Hammer. He was also a construction worker and land developer.
He was a military police sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II and served three years in the South Pacific. He was a personal escort for Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family.
He was born Oct. 18, 1920, in Lincoln to Oscar and Esther Fletcher Teichmann. He married Lucy Marie Summers on July 20, 1941, in Monroe, Mo. She died in August 1992.
He is survived by three children, Nelson (and Dietra) Teichmann of Peoria, Myrna Gifford of Kansas City, Mo., and Carolyn Fults of Lincoln; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Frances Hoffman of Mason City and Rose Mary Menzel of Beason; and one brother, Edward Teichmann of Vista, Calif. Special friends of the family also surviving are Ruby Nimke of Ocala, Fla., and Beryl Sivell of Brisbane, Australia.
He was also preceded in death by a stepbrother, August Teichmann, and five sisters, Kathleen Dailey, Emma Gene Teichmann, Betty Jean Happ, Mildred Eileen Teichmann in infancy and Thelma Moehring.
He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln.