James R. “Bob” Rawlins, 79, Lincoln, died at 4:30 a.m. Monday (Dec. 3, 2012) at St. Clara’s Manor, Lincoln.

Service: 11 a.m. Thursday at Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home, Atlanta. Maurice Stribling will officiate.

Burial: Mountjoy Cemetery, rural Atlanta. 

Visitation: one hour prior to the service Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorials: American Cancer Society or American Diabetes Association.

Survivors: his children, Robert (Gail) Rawlins, Lincoln, and Julie (Dustin) Smith, Springfield; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two brothers, Jon (Carol Ann) Rawlins, Groveland, and Myron (Karen) Rawlins, Atlanta; one sister, Joyce (Chuck) Damm, Marysville, Calif.; and one sister-in-law, Karen Rawlins, Heyworth.