The funeral of Eldon L. Volk, 78, of 239 Robinhood Lane, Bloomington, a basketball coach at Bloomington High 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 Park Hill Cemetery.

 

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 Illinois Wesleyan University’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 Wesley United Methodist Church, Arts and Crafts Masonic Lodge 1017, Bloomington Consistory, Peoria’s Mohammed Shrine Temple, Sigma Chi Alumni Association, and the National Retired Teachers Association.

 

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

 

Mr. Volk coached at Galesburg High School from 1927-1929 and at Lincoln High 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 Wesley United Methodist Church or to Shriner’s Crippled Children’s Hospital.