Deaths fill Williamson and Jackson counties in reports
A chain of obituaries notes the deaths of Tullie E. Moreland 75 of Anna Mildred S Mays 72 Carterville Elizabeth Summers Cook 88 Benton Nellie Knight 70 Tulsa Freeman Jake Nausley 85 Vergennes Nellie Anderson 82 Johnston City Emmett Bell 78 Carbondale Ethel Myrtle Batson 73 Carbondale and other residents across southern Illinois. Funeral details include dates times places and burial sites with church affiliations and community roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NellIe Aline Knight
Tulsa
Okla
Carbondale
Carbondale Community High School
Southern Illinois Normal University
First Christian Church
Knight
Thad
Alice McNeeley Hudspeth
Sharon Lee Cameron
Connie Jean Hamilton
Carmi
van Natta
Goreville
Virgil Elmore
First United Methodist Church
Cana Cemetery
Search for body ends after river ferry accident near Grand Tower
Civil Defense crews halted the search for the missing Cape Girardeau man Johnny Mack 72 after his truck rolled off the June ferry into 50 feet of water. Venice Johnson 50 jumped from the truck. Raymond Graff says boats checked south of the Illinois shore but found nothing. A later boat check is planned midweek along both river shores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Grand Tower
Cape Girardeau
Johnny Mack
Venice Johnson 50
Raymond Graff
Jackson County
Illinois
Graff
Johnson
Mack
Former SIU economics professor dies in California
Lewis A. Maverick, 82, longtime SIU economist and former department chair, died Oct. 14 in South Pasadena, California. He taught at Southern Illinois University from 1946 to 1957 and led the department from 1947 to 1953. He is survived by his wife Pirrie and two sons Andrew L. and George V.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis A. Maverick
Southern Illinois University
South Pasadena
Calif
Maverick
SIU
Pirrie
Andrew L
Los Angeles
George V
Berkeley
Weather Update For Area With Temperatures And Sun Times
High Sunday 49 degrees and overnight low 25. Temperature at 9 am today. Precipitation from 7 am Sunday to 7 am Monday trace. Sunset today 4 35 pm. Sunrise Tuesday 7 12 am. Sunset Tuesday 4 35 pm.
Infant Strangles on Bone in Marion
Bobbie Rae Barker 1 died after apparently choking on a chicken bone at Marion Memorial Hospital. Coroner James Wilson said an inquest may be considered. Born Oct 7, 1972 Eldorado, she is survived by her parents, a brother, and four grandparents. Services set for 11 a.m. Wednesday with burial in Maplewood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred S. Mays
N. Division St
Carterville
Country Club Manor
Harrisburg
First Christian Church
Royal Neighbors Lodge
Denver Earl Mays
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dwight Smith
Herrin
Riggin Funeral Home
Merle Melton
N. G. Daniels
Oakwood Cemetery
Funeral
Elizabeth Summers Cook
E. Church St
Benton
Franklin
Evelyn Waller
Thompsonville
Agnes Jones
Anna
James Summers
St. Louis
Nannie Frye
Augusta
Mich
Goldie
Alta Cremens
Akin
Hobbs- Johnson Funeral Home
T.T. Carney
Brady Cemetery
Freeman
Jake’’ Nausley
Vergennes
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
Murphysboro
Gladys Doty
Nausley
Richard
Faith Methodist
Faith Methodist Church, Vergennes
Charles Tindel
Parrish Cemetery
Wilson Funeral Home
Ava
Nellie Anderson
Maple House Shelter
Johnston City
Murman
Lutheran Church
Leo Melee
Lansing
Edward Peterson
Crystal Lake
Ernest Engstrand
Wisconsin
Emmett Bell
E. Oak St
Carbondale
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Washington Avenue
Carbondales
Algee
Mr. Bell
Fulton
Wyatt
Caroline Stowall Bell
Nellie Crossland
Cairo
Mittie London
Willie Felts
Sadie Smith
Gladys Surratt
Raymond
Charlie
Cliford
St. Louis, Mo
Ethel Myrtle Batson
Rt. 3
Grassy Township
Doctors’ Memorial Hospital
Williamson County
Fred
Cora Dave Damron
Herman L. Batson Sr
Marion
Herman Jr
Donna Bush
Maxine Bush
Rt. 5
Cora Reynolds
Cape Girardeau
Zelma Windeknecht
Jack Damron
Bourbamanias
Dean Bush
Donna Hunt
Huffman
Claude Childers
Wolf Creek Cemetery
West Frankfort
James Donald McDaniel
Sauk Village
Stone Funeral Home
Alan Summers
Tower Heights Cemetery
McDaniel
Chicago
Barbara Wyant
Sandra Keeaver
Rock Island
Orient No. 2
Annie Reed
College St
Arkansas
James
Eliza Ringer Brooks
Samual Reed
Springfield
Glenn
Clara Brown
James Brooks
Blytheville
Ark
Lewis Brooks
Flint
New Zion Baptist Church
Willie Mack
Oakland Cemetery
Algee Funeral Home
Lena B. Gillman
Lena Blanche Gillman
Circle Dr
Marion Memorial Hospital
David and
Artimae Parks Suilley
Gillman
Henry Gillman
Peggy Naive
Fenton
Henry Jr
Antioch
Mabel Wolf
Bertha Wright
Pearl Minter
Davd Stilley
Delmer Hill
Mitchell Funeral Home
Paul Dann
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Hazel Jones
Opdyke St
Chester
Memorial Hospital
John
Mary Anderson Wright
Fanrose Jones
Episcopal Church
American Legion Auxiliary
Welge Funeral Home
Kabo
Evergreen Cemetery
Bobbie Rae Barker
Kenneth Barker
James Wilson
Eldorado
Kenneth
Linda Duvall Barker
Kenneth Ray
Christmas drive in Carbondale nets 940 dollars and 120 food cases
Workers in Carbondale's Operation Merry Christmas collected 940 dollars and about 120 cases of food over the weekend to aid families this Christmas. Police and social workers will divide and distribute the cans, with the effort centered at the Police Community Service Center on South Illinois Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
Art Valentine
Police Community Service Center
South Illinois Avenue
Five Hurt in Two Highway Accidents Reported
Five people were injured in two separate accidents reported to district 13 state police at Du Quoin on Sunday. In Crab Orchard road crash, Thomas A Gothard 34 and two passengers Thomas A Gothard Jr 12 and James A Gothard 11 of Creal Springs along with Mary A Bundren 47 of Marion suffered major injuries and were admitted to Marion Memorial Hospital. Bundren braked and slid into Gothard’s path. In Randolph County John W Kelley 65 of East St Louis was injured when his car overturned on Rt 151 east of Rt 30 and transported to St Clements Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District 13
du Quoin
Crab Orchard Road
Rt. 13
Thomas A Gothard
Thomas A. Gothard Jr
James A. Gothard
Creal Springs
Mary A. Bundren
Marion
Mary Bundren
Gothard
Marion Memorial Hospital
John W. Kelley
East St. Louis
Rt. 151
Rt. 30
Randolph County
St. Clements Hospital
Youth faces LSD sale charges in De Soto area
Steve L. Miles, 17, of Rt. 1 De Soto, is jailed on charges of possession and sale of LSD. Detectives say about 90 doses were sold at Miles' home west of De Soto for 60 dollars. Police identified the money as the drug sale proceeds. tests confirmed LSD. The report notes Mt. Erebus as a third active Antarctic volcano on Ross Island with a 13,200 foot summit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve L. Miles
Rt. 1
de Soto
Jackson County
Miles
Carbondale
Carl McClain
McClain
Don Ragsdale
Mt. Erebus
Antarctic
Ross Island
Break-in Loot Valued Over $1000 At Herrin Department Store
Merchandise stolen in a Herrin area department store break-in Thursday night was valued at more than $1,000 after inventory. The Williamson County Sheriff's office reported two televisions a stereo shotgun shells and power tools were missing from the Big J department store south of Herrin on Rt. 148.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herrin Area
Williamson County Sheriff’s Office
Big-J
Herrin
Rt. 148
Weather Outlook Sees Cold Stay With Rain and Snow Flurries
Continued cold across the northeast with rain showers or snow flurries forecast for Monday. The Pacific Northwest also to receive rain. Elsewhere fair and mild conditions expected across much of the country. AP Wirephoto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northeast
Pacific Northwest
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National Weather Service
Noaa
Dept. of Commerce
Freeman Nausley
Tullie E. Moreland
Cobden
Isaac
Martha Manninger Moreland
Aston Stout
Louis T
Raymond Lee
W.D., Buncombe
Water Valley Christian Church
Union Masonic Lodge
Makanda
Eastern Star
Anna No. 3
McCarty
William Lively
Elizabeth Cook
Ethel Batson
Charles Meller
Charles Miller
Coello
Veteran’s Administration
Mr. Miller
Phillipinia Whittler Miller
Miller
Frank Miller
Russell
Christopher
Richard Ivance
Mulkeytown
Valentine Vanno
S. Pine St
Zeigler
Herrin Hospital
Hungary
Mike and
Marecella Tayti Vanno
Vanno
United Mine Workers of America
May
Bill
Carpentersville
Margaret Carter
Munroe Falls
Julia Holmes
Marianna
Fla
Elizabeth Alecci
Berkeley Heights
N.J
Vantrease
John Baggio
Zeigler Cemetery
Dorothy A. Barbeau
Swanwick St
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Prairie du Rocher
Miss Barbeau
St. Ann’s Health Center
Prairie du Rocer
August
Sylvina Dorin Barbeau
Blessed Virgin Sodality
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Schroeder
Cashner Funeral Home
Saluke
Gurphysboro
Hila
Tom
U.S. 51
S. Illinois
East Gate
The
American Film Theater Presents
Lee Marvin, Fredric March
Robert Ryan
Eugene O’neill
Caorvieil
Jacke June Merkin Yourhoss
E. Main
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