Obituaries
Gerald D. "Jerry" Clarke
Nov 22, 2018
Gerald D. “Jerry” Clarke, 71, of Galesburg, died on Thursday, November 22, 2018, 12:12 PM at OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria. Jerry was born on July 17, 1947 in Galesburg. He was the son of Oliver Paschall and Mabel (Ewing) Clarke, Jr. He married Anita Rodriguez on February 14, 2004. He is survived by his wife of 14...
Lester "Sonny" Shreeves
Nov 20, 2018
Lester L. “Sonny” Shreeves, 77, of Knoxville, passed away peacefully at 3:44 a.m. Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at Heartland Health Care and Rehab, Galesburg. Sonny was born February 26, 1941 in Galesburg, the son of Richard L. and Hildegard (Lemke) Shreeves. He married Nancy J. Erlandson on September 1, 1972 in Galesburg. Sonny is survived by his wife of...
Patricia "Trish" Engelhaupt
Nov 20, 2018
Patricia “Trish” Engelhaupt passed away November 20th, 2018 at home. She was born November 22, 1954 to John F. Sullivan and Margaret R. (Gillen) Sullivan of Kerry Acre Farm, Galesburg, both of whom preceded her death. Trish was educated at Costa Catholic School until the close of the High School in 1971. She graduated from GHS in 1972. She...
Betty Jane Sargeant
Nov 20, 2018
Betty Jane Sargeant, 76, of Galesburg, died peacefully at home on November 20, 2018 at 7:55 a.m. Betty was born December 21, 1941 in Metamora, the daughter of Donald Leon and Mary Martha (Armstrong) Thompson. She married Wayne E. Jackson, Sr. Betty later married Larry Sargeant. He preceded her in death. Never being afraid of hard work, Betty often...
Eva J. Moore
Nov 18, 2018
Eva June Moore, 94, of Galesburg, died at 4:45 p.m. Sunday, November 18, 2018 at Knox County Nursing Home, Knoxville. Eva was born August 11, 1924 near Alpha, the daughter of F. Edward and Virgile S. (Johns)Wall. She married Ralph H. Moore in Detroit, MI in 1945. He preceded her in death in 1969. Eva is survived by one...
Jeffery E. Ring
Nov 18, 2018
Jeffery Earl Ring, 63, of rural Victoria, died November 18, 2018 at home. Jeff was born June 30, 1955 in Galesburg. The son of Grandill J. Ring and Norma H. Johnson. Jeff is survived by his mother Norma Marsh Thompson of Rio; one brother, Wil Marsh of Rio; two sisters, April Watson of Geneseo and Lory Olinger of Washington;...
Ruth D. Remick
Nov 17, 2018
Ruth D. Remick, age 88, of Oquawka, Illinois passed away at the Great River Medical Center in West Burlington, Iowa on Saturday November 17, 2018 at 12:20 pm. Ruth was born on August 14, 1930 on the farm near Cedar Creek in Jefferson County near Fairfield, Iowa and is the daughter of Marvin and Christina Harm Overlander Giberson. She...
Linda L Riehm
Nov 16, 2018
Linda L. Swails Riehm, age 79, formerly of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away Friday November 16, 2018 in Killeen, Texas. Linda was born on March 2, 1939 in Kirkwood, Illinois and is the daughter of Hershel and Margaret Toops Swails. Linda was raised and educated in the Kirkwood, Illinois schools and graduated from the Kirkwood High School in the class...
Michelle L. Cook
Nov 14, 2018
Michelle Lynn Cook, 47, of Galesburg, died Wednesday November 14, 2018 at home. Michelle was born November 25, 1970 in Galesburg, the daughter of James Lewis and Linda Lorraine (Dunn) Gallagher, Sr. She married R. Michael Clay in 1996. She later married Jerry Lee Cook on July 25, 2014 in Galesburg. He survives of Galesburg. Michelle is also survived...
Kathy R. Marshall
Nov 13, 2018
Kathy Rae Marshall, 71, of Galesburg, died unexpectedly Tuesday, November 13, 2018 in the Emergency Room at Galesburg Cottage Hospital. Kathy was born October 19, 1947 in Galesburg, the daughter of Richard Jay and Dorothy Jean (Robertson) Houlihan. She married Rodney Marshall in 1968. They later divorced. He died June 3, 1994. Kathy is survived by her mother, Dorothy...
Jerry Floyd Daniels
Nov 13, 2018
Jerry Floyd Daniels, 75, of Galesburg, formerly of Oneida, went home to be with our Lord and Savior at 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, November 13, 2018, with his family by his side. He was the youngest child of William Floyd and Laura Mary (Thompson) Daniels. He was born August 1, 1943 in rural Ringo Point, MO. Jerry married his high...
Robert E. Tasker
Nov 13, 2018
Robert Eugene Tasker, 73, of East Galesburg, died at 7:55 p.m. Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at Seminary Manor, Galesburg. Bob was born July 3, 1945 in Galesburg, the son of James G. and Pauline F. (Swanson) Tasker. He married Karen Kay Metelka on June 24, 1972 at First Lutheran Church in Galesburg. She survives of East Galesburg. Bob is...
Merle D. Mccabe
Nov 12, 2018
Merle D. McCabe, age 79, of Gladstone, Illinois, passed away at 8:01 P.M. on Monday, November 12, 2018 at Heartland Health Care Center in Galesburg, Illinois. He was born on December 10, 1938 in Gladstone, Illinois, the son of Howard and Myrtle (Tee) McCabe. Merle attended school in Gladstone. Merle married Bobbi Jo Smith and she is surviving. He...
Edith C. Johnson
Nov 12, 2018
Edith C. Johnson of Galesburg passed away at 9:47 a.m. Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 at Rosewood Care Center. She was born January 12, 1930 in rural Monmouth, Illinois the daughter of Wiley and Maude Simmons Neal. Edith had also lived in Monmouth, Illinois and Grimes, Iowa and had lived with her niece, Jean (Gary) Theobald in Galesburg for five...
Shirley A. Armstrong
Nov 11, 2018
Shirley Ann (Howard) Armstrong, 86, formerly of Monmouth, passed away peacefully at OSF St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg, IL on November 11, 2018. She was born August 28, 1932, in New Boston, Illinois, the daughter of Ezra and Pearl (James) Howard. She married James S. Armstrong on November 16, 1957 in Monmouth and he preceded her in death...
Sarah E. Links
Nov 11, 2018
Sarah E. Links, 70, of St. Augustine, passed away peacefully and surrounded by her family, on Sunday, November 11, 2018, 6:20 PM, at OSF Richard Owens Hospice House, Peoria. Sarah was born on January 24, 1948 in Galesburg. She was the daughter of Edward and Catherine (O’Connor) Kennedy. She married Victor N. Links on June 26, 1970 in Rock...
Anna M. Nichols
Nov 11, 2018
Anna Marie Nichols, 94, of Knoxville, Passed away at 7:25 a.m. Sunday, November 11, 2018 at Knox County Nursing Home. She was born August 3, 1924 at home in Fedora, SD to Simon and Elizabeth Hughes, eighth of nine children. Ann graduated from St. Agatha’s Catholic School in Howard, SD in 1943. She met her husband Lewis, at the...
Betty J. Morrison
Nov 8, 2018
Betty Jane Morrison, 89, of Galesburg, died at 10:27 p.m. Thursday, November 8, 2018 at Knox County Nursing Home, Knoxville. Betty was born May 11, 1929 in Delong, the daughter of William D. and Elizabeth (VanFleet) Young. She married Jack Eugene Morrison on May 15, 1946 in Galesburg. Jack preceded her in death after almost 67 years of marriage...
Ada M. Alecock
Nov 7, 2018
Ada M. Alecock, age 98, of Biggsville, Illinois passed away at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at the Burlington Care Center in Burlington, Iowa. She was born on July 25, 1920 in Rozetta, Illinois and is the daughter of Harry E. and Florence l. Goff Alecock. Ada was raised in the Rozetta community and attended Liberty rural...
Mary Gladys Caldwell
Nov 7, 2018
Mary Gladys Caldwell, age 89, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at 11:20 P.M. on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at Monmouth Nursing Home in Monmouth, Illinois. Mary Gladys, known as "Gladys", was born in Alexis, Illinois, the daughter of Frank E. and Daisy May (Olin) Caldwell. Gladys was reared and educated in and around Alexis, Illinois, graduated from Alexis High...
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