Delia Darlene (Estock) Pankow

     Delia Darlene Pankow, 79 of Fairmount, was reunited with her beloved Jerry in Heaven on Saturday, October 1, 2022. She passed with her loving family by her side. Visitation will be from 12-2pm on Tuesday, October 4th at Kruger Funeral Home, 10 E. Williams Street in Danville. Services will follow at 2pm with Pastor Patti Wise officiating, and burial will take place at Oak Hill Cemetery off of Shangri-la Road.

   Delia was born to John and Hazel (Stine) Estock in Danville on October 20, 1942. Her family moved around a lot when she was young so she made friends at several schools throughout the years including Potomac, Danville, and Oakwood. It was in one of those small towns that Delia met a young Jerry Pankow in the neighborhood, and the two were married shortly before her seventeenth birthday on September 5, 1959. Delia and Jerry settled in Danville and quickly began their family with the birth of their daughter Sheryl in 1960, and later Lori in 1974.  Delia loved making their house a home and raising their children. She was a lifetime collector of recipes and cookbooks and was a fantastic baker. Part of her daily conversations with her daughters was always ‘What are you having for supper? Well how do you make that?” Delia also loved deeply, and each grandchild felt her full support at every cheerleading event, basketball game, and spelling bee. Her and Jerry also enjoyed playing radio games to pass the time on family road trips. Since becoming homebound the past few years, Facebook had become Delia’s window to the world, part of her daily routine that allowed her to live through others.

   On January 5, 2022, Delia lost the love of her life Jerry after sixty-two wonderful years together. She leaves behind her two daughters: Sheryl Baumeister and Lori (Shane) Kirby; five grandchildren: Madison, MacKenzie and Brittney Kirby, Amie Baumeister, and Andy (Jayde) Baumeister; and two great grandchildren: Declan and Dryce. Delia will also be greatly missed by her brother: Jerry “Jed” Estock, her brother-in-law: Frederick ‘Rick” (Judi) Pankow; and many nieces, nephews, and friends. She was preceded in death by her father John Estock, her mother and step-dad: Hazel and Louis McCalip, a brother: Gene Estock, and two sisters: Marilyn Johnson and Nancy Pollock.

   The family would like to send their heartfelt thanks to each team member of Danville Dialysis Unit, Fairmount Fire & Rescue, The OSF Bobbette Steely Hegeler Cancer Center, OSF Hospice, and CRIS, as well as everyone they are probably missing, for their love and support for not only mom, but for them during her care the past several years. Messages and memories may be left on our website at www.KrugerCoanPape.com, or on the Kruger-Coan-Pape Funeral Home Facebook page. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Delia’s name to Fairmount Fire & Rescue, OSF Bobbette Steely Hegeler Cancer Center, or the Danville Dialysis Center.

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