Weather and obituary notices across Illinois and Missouri
Showers and thundershowers are forecast along the Appalachian Mountains from the Gulf Coast to Canada and in Montana. Roy E. Rodd, 88, of Marion, will be laid to rest Thursday at Wilson Funeral Home with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. He was a retired life insurance underwriter and church member, survived by his wife, children across several cities, 13 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral services for Lula Griffith, 90, of West Frankfort are set for Friday at Stone Funeral Home with private graveside rites at Ava Evergreen Cemetery. Ben W. Strachan, 66, a former Ava area resident, was cremated. services under Wilson Funeral Home of Ava. James Everett Bullington, 65, of Anna, WWI veteran, dies. funeral Thursday at Crain-Norris Funeral Home with graveside rites by American Legion Post No. 344. Frank Garvin, 67, of West Frankfort, dies. funeral Friday at Stone Funeral Home. Weather notes include high 72 and low 43 Tuesday, with expectations of continued cool temperatures and scattered showers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jettie Vaughn
Rose Hill
Rodd
Warder Street
Lela Calvert
Marion
Lenora
Harry
Williard
Carbondale
Theodore
Aurora
Clifford Owen
Blue Island
John W. Stone
Germany
Charles
Wichita
Kan
Mary Baker
St. Louis
Chicago
Bert Byford
Wilmington
Lula Griffith
E. Charles St
West Frankfort
Franklin Hospital
Benton
Central City
William Balentine
Molly Samples
Church of God of
Ava Evergreen Cemetery
Ben W. Strachan
Ava Area
Wilson Funeral Home
Ava
James Everett Bullington
Grove St
Anna
Herrin Hospital
Mr. Bullington
James R
Louise Osverne Bullington
Jennie Hurtz
Bessie Vancil
Velma Neilsen
Bertha Sprous
Beulah Carter
Frank
Clarence
Bullington
Saratoga Methodist Church
American Legion
Crain - Norris Funeral Home
Frank Pierce
First Methodist Church
Anna Cemetery
Illinois
Frank D. Garvin
Rt. 2
Union Hospital
McLeansboro
John T
Alice Douglas Garvin
Petroff Packing Co
Teamsters
Second Baptist Church
Garvin
Jessie
Earl
Don Hurley
Leslie
Los Angeles
Calif
Lake Water Levels Rise and Fall at Local Dams
Lake Stages show Crab Orchard Lake 4 inches above spillway and Devil's Kitchen Lake at spillway. Little Grassy Lake sits 3 inches below spillway while Lake of Egypt stands 6 inches above spillway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crab Orchard Lake
Devil’s Kitchen Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Lake of Egypt
Illinois River recreation plan eyed in Embarras stretch
State Rep. John W. Lewis Jr. and five colleagues will push a bill to establish a 93 mile recreational waterway along the Embarras River in southeast Illinois. The plan seeks $700,000 for development and land acquisitions from below the Lincoln reservoir dam site at Charleston to the river’s mouth south of Lawrenceville, with the Illinois Department of Conservation administering the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
John W. Lewis Jr
R-Marshall
Embarras River
Illinois
Lewis
Illinois Water Pollution and Water Resources Committee
General Assembly
Illinois Department of Conservation
Lincoln
Charleston
Wabash River
Lawrenceville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Appalachi
Montana
Roy Rodd
Roy E. Rodd
E. Thorn St
E. Allan Webb
Mr. Strachan
Stonehaven
England
James Stephens
Margaret Smith Strachan
Urbana
Beulah Knauer
Strachan
Unitarian Church
Cornerstone Lodge No. 875
Af&am
Mississippi Valley Consistory
East St. Louis
Ainad Temple
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Eleanor Tait
Hampshire
Eola A. Lindae
James E. Bullington
Frank Garvin
Stone Funeral Home
Arthur Williams
Denning Cemetery
Rocky Mountain Plateaus
U.S. Weather Bureau
ESSA
Frigidaire
South 10Th Street
Murphysboro, Illinois
The
N&w
Danville
Norfolk and Western Railway
Ridge Farm
Lester Ladow
James R. Glover
Frankfort
Ind
Lakeview Hospital
Norfolk and Western
Penn- Central
South Side
Mary Halley
Julie Redetski
Cascade
Wis
Halley
Cized
Altorfer
GOP Party
U of Chicago
IDA
George W. Beadle
6Th Engineer Battalion
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Thomas C., Barnett
E. Park St
Dennis Perlman
Larry F. Hughes
Southern Acres
Murphysboro Supply CO
Clinton
Iowa
Progresso
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