Akins and Leonard funerals set for Benton area
Funeral services for Arthur Albert Akins 80 of Benton are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at Poulson Funeral Home with burial in Masonic and Odd Fellows Cemetery. Akins, a retired coal miner and clerk, died March 6 1982. Visitation 6 to 9 p.m. today. Also noted is the death of Ted Leonard 59 of West City from natural causes March 6 1982 with a service a.m. Monday at Hobbs Johnson Funeral Home Benton and burial in Masonic Oddfellow Cemetery. Visitation 5 to 9 p.m. today. Leonard a WWII Army veteran is survived by wife Jean and son Ken, among others.
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Benton
Arthur Albert Akins
Joplin St
Franklin Hospital
Poulson
Masonic and Odd Fellows
Akins
North Benton
Ted Leonard
Church St
West City
Franklin County
American Legion Post
Mr. Leonard
Ignac
Katherine Drauszewski Leonard
Funeral
Edna Deal Shute Graveside Services In Du Quoin
Edna Deal Shute 89 formerly of Pinckneyville died March 4 1982 at Fair Acres Nursing Home Du Quoin. Graveside services 2 p.m. today at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery. She and husband Ray Gordon Shute toured vaudeville and ran a stage production company in St Louis. Surviving grandchildren and great grandchildren are listed along with other family. She was a BPW and Pinckneyville Women's Club member.
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Sunset Memorial Park
du Quoin
Edna Deal Shute
Pinckneyville
Fair Acres
Schwebel
Shute
Missouri
Edward Chester
Elizabeth M. Clothes Duckworth
Ray Gordon Shute
Massillion
Ohio
United States
St. Louis
Illinois
Theatrics
Obituaries From Jacob to West Frankfort Roster
A series of death notices from March 1982 list Julius H Schlimpert 88 of Jacob dies at St Ann s Chester born 1893 survived by son Wilbert and daughter Georgine. Burial at Christ Lutheran Jacob with services and calling hours. Mildred McGinnis Gullett 77 Elizabethtown dies at home born 1904 Carbondale wife of James G Gullett. Ann Louise Russell 61 Los Angeles dies Feb 28 Du Quoin funeral in Neil Memorial Chapel. Daniel Eugene Walter 27 Evansville dies natural causes March 5 Chester Memorial services in Evansville. John B Land 71 Longboat Key Florida former West Frankfort resident dies March 2 1981 in Sarasota. Memorials to Crippled Children s Association and Alzheimer’s Fund.
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Mildred McGinnis Gullett
Elizabethtown
Carbondale
First Baptist Church of
Johnson County
William Burnett
Fannie Fitch McGinnis
James G. Gullett
James Michael Gullett
Cave-in-Rock
Norma Gullett
Jay
Amy Gullett
William F. McGinnis
St. Louis
Georgia Minton
Marjorie Frields
Virginia Price
Neil Memorial
du Quoin
Ann Louise Russell
Los Angeles
Cundiff
Blairsville
Russell
Springfield
Ohio
Clifford C. Russell
Robert J. Campbell
Clifford E. Russell Jr
William A. Russell
Carol Ann Anzalone
Catherine Colclough
Dayton
Charles A. Russell
Tanner, W. Va
Adeline Vollmer
Hazel Lust
Evansville
Daniel Eugene Walter
Chester Memorial Hospital
Chester
St. Boniface Catholic Church
St. Boniface
Dashner- Mathews
Mr. Walter
Red Bud
George
Patricia Gorman Walter
David
Steven
Chris
Richard
Andy
Mark
James
Georgia
Carolyn
Judy
Theresa
Michele
Margaret
Kathy
Frank and
Mary Gorman
Eugene
Agnus Walter
Southern Illinois Division of
Crippled Childrens’ Association
John B. Land
Wedge Lane
Longboat Key
Fla
West Frankfort
Sarasota
Mr. Land
Notre Dame University
Cincinnati
General Electric Corp
Longboat Key Golf Club
St. John’s Catholic Church
Madison Ave
New York
N.Y
Deaths toll from Murphysboro and nearby areas passes 80
Death notices list Vern Costello of Murphysboro and Mary Elizabeth Patterson of Amherst Ohio among those dying in early March 1982. Services set for Costello at Crawshaw Mortuary with burial in Elk No.2 Cemetery Hallidayboro. Patterson funeral at Johnson Funeral Home Herrin with East Lawn Memorial Gardens burial. Other notices mention Daisy Harrell Carbondale and Thelma Freese Parkersburg WV with multiple survivors and church affiliations.
Doris A Maasberg Dies. Steeleville Teacher to Be Laid to Rest
Doris A. Maasberg 60 of Steeleville died Saturday March 6 1982. Funeral is 2 30 p m at St Mark's Lutheran Church Steeleville with burial in Paradise Cemetery. She was a retired Steeleville grade schoolteacher and a member of St Mark's Church and the BBC American Legion Post 480 Auxiliary. Survivors include her husband Harold E Mansberg a son James A Mansberg of Columbia a daughter Kay A Durkee of Decatur a brother Fred Dreyer and a sister Catherine Weaver. Funeral home calls 4 30 p m today to 12 30 p m Monday.
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Lutz and Rendiemanuneral
Anna
Helen Frances Winters
E. High St
St. John’s Hospital
Springfield
Jonesboro
Winters
First Baptist Church
Fred
Neilie Craiglow Williford
Troy S. Winters
Jim Lemons
Lafayette
Colo
Bobby Winters
Herrin
Mary Elizabeth Patterson
Amherst
Ohio
S. 22Nd St. Herrin
Community Hospital
Lorain
Johnson Funeral Home
East Lawn Memorial Gardens
Rosalie Cochran
Quanita Ragher
Georgia Propes
Randolph County
Henry
Lydia Quernheim Dreyer
Harold E. Mansberg
Steeleville
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
BBC American Legion Post 480
James A. Mansberg
Columbia
Kay A. Durkee
Decatur
Fred Dreyer
Livingston death ruled a homicide
An inquest into the death of William Leonard Livingston II concluded it was a homicide by person or persons unknown. The jury urged continued investigation. Livingston, 58, owner of Mr. B's tavern west of Murphysboro, was found shot four times in his apartment behind the tavern on February 12.
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William
Leonard Livingston II
Jackson County
Don Ragsdale
Ragsdale
Mr. Livingston
B’s
Murphysboro
Livingston
Fire at Southern Illinois University Campus Building
A fire of suspicious origin destroyed an abandoned building on the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus Friday afternoon. The former nursery area near the president's home on the south side was damaged. The 4 30 p m incident left no damage estimate available.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale Fire Department
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Robert Betty Hammond
Shirley Akins
Calvin Akins
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Luna
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Colp
Herrin Hospital
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Colp Apostolic Church
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Lee A
Rosanna Johnson Franklin
Kathleen Snider
Davenport
Iowa
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Africa
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Edgemont
S.D
Ida Khory
Joe Franklin
Camus
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Johnston Funeral Home
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Herrin Eagles Lodge
Joseph
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Genevieve Damron
Clifford
Betty Dugger
Marion
Patsy Brandon
Lansing
Wanda Harris
Johnston City
Carolyn McRoy
Lir Odum
Margaret Agner
Peoria
Brenda Kornemann
Macon
Christine McVey
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Jacob
St. Ann’s
Christ Lutheran Church of
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Caroline Schoenberg Schlimpert
Hilda Engert
Wilbert C. Schlimpert
Georgine Stellhorn
Baldwin
Tillie Hurley
Christ Lutheran Church
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Vern Costello
J.C. Ricketts
Crawshaw Mortuary
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Elk No.2
Hallidayboro
Costello
American Legion
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Laura Wright Costello
Edna Smith Baker
William Baker
Escondido
Calif
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Donald Baker
J. J. Pieron
Bunker Hill
Gene Schnur
Mascoutah
Elva McCollum
Elkville
Mae Parrish
Centralia
H. Beard
Enry Beard
Mary Lou Williams
Greenville
Daisy Harrell
Bethel A.M.E
Memorial Hospital of
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Eastern Star
Hardin County
Tenn
Amos L
Belle Fowler Chappell
Ernest Harrell
Rose of Sharon
Mary Smith
Ind
Annie Perkins
Betty Wilson
Velma Hutchinson
Jackson Funeral Home
Thelma Freese
Thelma K. Freese
Parkersburg
W. Va
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Max N. Freese
Martha Murphy
Rochester
Ee Lowry
Fort Lauderdale
Marilyn Manners
Hillside Terrace
Cobden
First United Methodist Church
Crain Funeral Home
Anna Cemetery
Mound City
East Prairie Memorial Park
East Prairie
Mr. Ricketts
Decatursville
Claude
Dubby Robinson Ricketts
Christine James
Eddie
Michael Ricketts
Glen Ricketts
Dorothy Pierce
Brenda Brown
Alto Pass
Shirley Fox
Rockwood
Linda Ricketts
Shelia
Teresa Ricketts
Ruby Blasingame
Carrie Belle Smith
Leon, James and
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Dade City
Guy Wesley Borum
Debra Bloodworth Borum
Laura Court
Maplewood
Welborn Baptist Hospital
Lenora Kimmel Borum
Glenn Wesley Borum
Christopher
Sharon Bloodworth
Esther Kimmel
Cecil Jordan
Guy Bloodworth
Mitchell-Hughes and LeMasters Funeral Home
Frank Deak
Marion Memorial Hospital
Mitchell-Hughes-Lemaster Funeral Home
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Doris A. Maasberg
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