Category Archives: Obituaries

Jessie Keen, age 90, of Fairfield, Illinois passed away on Monday, September 15, 2025, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law. She was born on April 27, 1935, in Louisa, Kentucky, the daughter of ...

Maxine Lee, 99, of Fairfield, passed away at 7:17am on September 17, 2025, at Cisne Rehabilitation and Health Care. She had been a homemaker. Maxine was born on March 3, 1926, in Springerton, IL, to W...

Bernice Diane Ellis 97, of McLeansboro, IL passed away Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro, IL. Bernice was born August 29, 1928 in Osage County, Oklahoma. She w...

Daddy has drilled his last well, he has found his last vein of oil. He took his rig to the yard and parked it. No longer hunting squirrel, rabbit, and deer. The fishing poles no longer strung. The gar...

Bobby Lee Akins, Jr., 60, of McLeansboro, IL passed away on Monday, September 15, 2025 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro. Bobby was born on April 7, 1965 in Herrin, IL to Bobby Akins, Sr. &...

James W. Penrod, 57, of Fairfield, passed away at 5:59pm on Sunday, September 14, 2025, at Deaconess Midtown Hospital. Jim was born on April 8, 1968, in Howell, Michigan, to Vera (Thompson) and Tom Sm...

Dorothy Jean (Cushman) South, 98, of Enfield passed away on Monday, September 15, 2025 at SSM Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon, IL. She was born on July 4, 1927 in Springerton, IL the daughter of...

John Schnepper, age 68, of Clay City, Illinois, passed away peacefully on the morning of September 13, 2025, at St. Anthony Hospital in Effingham, surrounded by his loved ones. He was born on March 1,...

Eddie L. Brock, 72 of Indianapolis, Indiana passed away on Thursday, September 11, 2025, at Franklin Meadows Hospice in Franklin, Indiana. He was born a son of Walter and Mildred (Short) Brock on In N...

Marion Ray Hutchison, 73, of Carmi died peacefully at home surrounded by his family. He was born in Fairfield, IL the son of William "Bill" Hutchison and Ruth Marian (Musgrave) West. Marion married Ja...