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John T. Rients, 59, of rural Flanagan, died at-2:56 a.m. Thursday, May 19, 1983 at St. Marys Hospital, Streator.

His funeral was Sunday afternoon at St. Petri Lutheran Church, Flanagan, the Rev. Ronald Kruger officiating. Burial was in St. Petri Cemetery.

Froelich Memorial Home of Flanagan was in charge of services.
Mr. Rients was born March 25. 1924, rural Flanagan, a son of Henry and Nannie (Eilers) Rients. He married Elaine Abels, January 2, 1949, at Flanagan. She survives.

Also surviving are his mother; three sons, Larry, Flanagan; Rodney, Minonk; and Richard, Pontiac; two daughters, Dianne Thompson, Chenoa; and Linda Zeller, Golfport, Mississippi; two brothers, Norman, Flanagan; and Tjark E., Dana; a sister, Elise Oltman, Orlando, Florida; and four grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father.

He was a farmer and a veteran of the Korean War. He was a member of St. Petri Lutheran Church and the Pontiac Moose Lodge.