Warren Lee Royer

ROYER, Warren Lee Of Kalamazoo Warren died peacefully at Rose Arbor Hospice Residence on October 14, 2006. He was born in Rushville, Illinois on June 27, 1925, the son of Laurence L. and Ada Rose Troehmel Royer. Warren earned Bachelor?s and Master?s degrees in English Literature and Language at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served in the Army Air Force in WWII, as Film Director at Iowa State University, as a sports writer for the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, and was a faculty member and principal of the University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois for 25 years until his retirement in 1986. Warren?s great love was singing in the Society for the Preservation of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. He dedicated over fifty years of service to Chapters in Urbana, Gainesville, Florida and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Throughout, Warren served in many leadership capacities, earned many awards, and rang out many chords. Warren was also active in the Disciples of Christ churches in Urbana, Gainesville, and Kalamazoo, serving each community in many capacities as a choir member, servant leader, and true disciple. He was also an honorary member of the Parish Church of Christ the King at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Kalamazoo where he sang in the summer choir and played on the Parish baseball team. Warren was also a consummate poet, shining his light, his heart and his intellect throughout his art. He leaves to remember him his wife, Nancy Martin Bailey, his sister, Mary Alice Roberts, his step-sons, Ryan and Stuart, his grandchildren, Evan and Chloe and many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends on Friday from 2-4 and 6-8pm at the Langeland Family Funeral Homes, Westside Chapel, 3926 South 9th Street. A service to celebrate Warren?s homegoing will be held 1:00pm Saturday at the Christian Church ? Disciples of Christ 2208 Winchell Ave. with The Rev. Cynthia L. Black, The Rev. Richard D. Branaman and Pastor J. Louis Felton officiating. A private family interment will be held at a later date. Memorials in Warren?s memory may be directed to University Laboratory High School, Urbana, IL, First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Kalamazoo, Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan, or a charity of your choice.