Obituaries

Obituaries in Robinson, Palestine, Flat Rock, West Union, and Surrounding Areas in Illinois

Inez Marie Mann

Inez Marie Mann

Nov 1, 2010

Inez Marie Clements Mann, 81, formerly of Robinson, IL, died at 8:15 p.m. (E.S.T.) Monday, November 1, 2010 at the Meadows Manor East, Terre Haute, IN. She was born October 20, 1929 in Robinson, Illinois the daughter of Wardie O. Clements and Ethel Utterback Clements. Inez graduated from Robinson High School in 1946. She was an operator at General...

Byrl L. Wesner

Byrl L. Wesner

Oct 28, 2010

Byrl L. Wesner, 72, of Russellville, died at 6:53 p.m. on October 28, 2010 at his residence. He was born October 11, 1938 in Flat Rock, the son of Vern Wesner and Christine Utt Wesner. Byrl served in the U. S. Army in Germany. He retired from L. S. Heath as a cook in 1991 after 27 years of...

Richard Ora Mann

Richard Ora Mann

Oct 27, 2010

Richard Ora Mann, 81, of Robinson died at 11:40 a.m. on October 27, 2010 at the Cotillion Ridge Nursing Center. He was born on November 9, 1928 in Robinson, the son of Clarence Everett Mann and Ethel Gladys Sleeth Mann. Richard was an insurance adjuster, working for over 35 years in the insurance business and managed his family farm.He...

Ruth Jane Barrick

Ruth Jane Barrick

Oct 26, 2010

Ruth Jane Barrick, 87, of Palestine, IL, died at 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at her residence. She was born May 30, 1923 in Hutsonville, IL, the daugher of John O. Goff and Lula Sluder Goff. She worked at the Case Pottery and retired from Hershey after over 20 years of service. She was a member of the...

Beulah E. Smith

Beulah E. Smith

Oct 24, 2010

Beulah E. Smith, 92, of Nashville, TN, formerly of Robinson, Il, entered Heaven Sunday, October 24, 2010 at the Mckendree Village Health Care, Nashville, TN where she had resided the last 6 months. She was born January 12, 1918 in central Illinois, the daughter of Hollie and Lena Gebert Shook. She and her family moved to Robinson, IL in...

Iris Dispennett Claxton

Iris Dispennett Claxton

Oct 23, 2010

Iris DisPennett Claxton, 78 of rural Flat Rock, IL, died at 2:05 a.m. (e.s.t.) Saturday, October 23, 2010 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes, IN. She was born November 15, 1931 in rural Kentucky, the daughter of Vernon Foster and Bertha Kelly Foster. She was a homemaker and a CNA at Crawford Memorial Hospital in Robinson, IL for 14 years,...

Sue Jane Bertram

Sue Jane Bertram

Oct 22, 2010

Sue Jane Bertram, 75, of Robinson died at 1:06 p.m. on Friday, October 22, 2010. She was born on February 2, 1935 in White Hall, IL, the daughter of Chester Castleberry and Florence J. Smith Castleberry. Sue was a homemaker and a member of the Robinson 1st Methodist Church, the Quail Creek Country Club and the Robinson American Legion...

Donald W. Illyes

Donald W. Illyes

Oct 20, 2010

Donald W. Illyes, 51, of rural Flat Rock, IL, died at 10:05 a.m. (E.S.T.) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes, IN. He was born March 29, 1959 in Lawrenceville, IL, the son of Gerald W. Illyes and Norma Jean Crouch Illyes. Don was a farmer. He was a member of the St. John the Baptist Catholic...

Beverly A. Fritchie

Beverly A. Fritchie

Oct 19, 2010

Beverly Fritchie, 64, of Palestine, IL, died at 4:19 a.m. Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at St. Mary€™s Hospital, Evansville, IN. She was born July 13, 1946 in LaMotte Township, Crawford County, IL, the daughter of Carl White and Ruth Baker White. She was a cashier at Wal-Mart for 24 years and a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. Beverly married...

Shirley Ann Crawford

Shirley Ann Crawford

Oct 16, 2010

Shirley Ann Crawford, 74, of Robinson, formerly of West Union, died at 2:13 p.m. on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at the home of her sister in rural Robinson. She was born March 23, 1936 in Bridgeport, IL, the daughter of Cecil Blackwell and Printhe Shipley Blackwell. She was employed for 10 years at Crawford Electronics and 27 years at...

Jean Prust Cooney

Jean Prust Cooney

Oct 16, 2010

Jean Prust Cooney of Western Springs, Illinois passed away on the morning of October 16, 2010, in her home at the age of ninety-two. Born in rural West Union on January 16, 1918, she was the only child of Milo (1982) and Lenore Prust (1987). She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 44 years, John...

Kenneth Lee Skaggs,  Sr.

Kenneth Lee Skaggs, Sr.

Oct 14, 2010

Kenneth Lee Skaggs, Sr., 65, of Robinson died at 10:58 a.m. on October 14, 2010 at his residence. He was born on March 20, 1945, the son of Carl Skaggs and Stella Elizabeth Tucker Skaggs. Kenneth worked for Marathon for 37 years as a welder and was a member of the Robinson Masonic Lodge #250 and the Robinson Elks...

Terri Kay Weger

Terri Kay Weger

Oct 10, 2010

Terrica €œTerri€ Kay Weger, 47 of rural Sumner, IL, died at 12:10 a.m. Sunday, October 10, 2010 at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, IN. She was born October 29, 1962 in France, the daughter of Stephen A. Weger and Anita Kay Ramsey Weger. Terri is survived by her father, Stephen Weger, Jacksonville, AR; her daughter, Kai Lynn Newman, Nashville, TN;...

Stephen Daugherty

Stephen Daugherty

Oct 9, 2010

Stephen Daugherty, 45, of West Union, went to be home with his Lord and Savior at 11:19 p.m. on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at the Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign, IL. He was born on August 31, 1965 in Sullivan, IN, the son of Paul Eugene Daugherty and Patricia Crouch Daugherty. He was an ironworker and a member of...

Richard "Rick" Poorman

Richard "Rick" Poorman

Oct 9, 2010

Richard €œRick€ Poorman, 52, of West Union, died on Saturday, October 9, 2010. He was born November 14, 1957 in Sullivan, IN, the son of Dale M. Poorman and Carolyn R. Gurley Poorman. Rick was a paramedic for the Robinson, West Union and Lawrenceville areas and taught paramedics through Frontier College. He was a past district manager for Ferrellgas...

Patricia Helen Hotsenpiller

Patricia Helen Hotsenpiller

Oct 9, 2010

Patricia Helen Hotsenpiller, 85, of Flat Rock, IL, passed away Saturday, October 9, 2010. She was born July 14, 1925 in Flat Rock, the daughter of Ralph and Erma (Weger) Miller. She was a homemaker and a member of the Flat Rock Christian Church.In 1946 she married Byron James Matthews who preceded her in death in 1954. She married...

Deloris Virginia Wooten

Deloris Virginia Wooten

Oct 5, 2010

Deloris Virginia Wooten, 95, of rural Robinson, IL, died at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at Crawford Memorial Hospital, Robinson, IL. She was born August 24, 1915 in Oblong, IL, the daughter of Hershel Neeley and Ida Dressback Neeley. She was a homemaker, a member of the Grace United Methodist Church and the Grace Methodist Quilting Club.Deloris married...

June Stoner

June Stoner

Oct 1, 2010

June Stoner, 92 of rural Palestine, IL, died at 9:00 p.m. Friday, October 01, 2010 at her home after an extended illness. She was born on June 2, 1918 in Palestine, the daughter of William Potter and Effie Frances Renchen Potter. She was a homemaker and was an active quilter who supported Project Linus. June was a member of...

Freda M Kelley

Freda M Kelley

Sep 27, 2010

Freda M. Kelley, 66, of West Union died at 1:20 p.m. on September 27, 2010 at her home. She was born November 4, 1943 in Terre Haute, IN, the daughter of Arthur A. Pinkston and Margaret Ann White. She co-owned and operated the R & F Caf in West Union for 4 years before working for Lincoln Trail College...

Hazel Mae Wright

Hazel Mae Wright

Sep 26, 2010

HAZEL MAE €œSCOTT€ WRIGHTHazel Mae Wright, 95, formerly of West Union, IL, passed away at 8:37 a.m. Sunday, September 26, 2010 at Burnside Nursing Home in Marshall, IL. She was born in Walnut Prairie, (Clark County IL) on May 4, 1915, the daughter of Roy Scott and Myrtle (Coldren) Scott.She married Harnett Wright on July 28, 1934 and he...