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Eldon L. Volk

The funeral of Eldon L. Volk, 78, of 239 Robinhood Lane, Bloomington, a basketball coach at BloomingtonHigh School for 31 years, who died Sunday, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Metzler Memorial Home, the Rev. Bert Lancaster officiating. Burial will be in ParkHillCemetery.

Visitation will be on hour before the service at the memorial home.

Mr. Volk, who coached and taught at BHS from 1936 to 1965, was also captain of IllinoisWesleyanUniversity’s basketball team in 1927, and was a four-year member of IWU’s track team.

Volk was the winningest basketball coach in BHS history. Bloomington records show Volk with a 213-139 won-loss record in his 14 years as head coach.

He was born May 18, 1904, at Dixon, a son of John and Rose Zilm Volk. He married Lois C. Curry July 16, 1930, at Chicago. She survives.

Also surviving are his mother, McLean County Nursing Home; a daughter, Marcia Proctor, Denver, Colo.; and two granddaughters.

His father and a sister preceded him in death.

He was a member of WesleyUnitedMethodistChurch, Arts and Crafts Masonic Lodge 1017, Bloomington Consistory, Peoria’s MohammedShrineTemple, Sigma Chi Alumni Association, and the National Retired Teachers Association.

He was a graduate of MinonkHigh School, IWU, and the University of Illinois.

Mr. Volk coached at GalesburgHigh School from 1927-1929 and at LincolnHigh School from 1930-1935. He also was a public relations officer at People’s Bank of Bloomington from 1967-1970.

Memorials may be made to WesleyUnitedMethodistChurch or to Shriner’s Crippled Children’s Hospital.