Obituaries

Carolyn S. Poulson, age 61, of Monmouth; passed away at her Monmouth residence on Tuesday October 8, 2013 at 7:55 am. Carolyn was born on July 7, 1952 in Monmouth and is the daughter of Donald and Ethel Lundeen Sickles. She was raised and educated in Monmouth where she attended Monmouth Schools and Monmouth High school. She was first...

Robert J. Young, age 78, formerly of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at 2:15 am at the Country View Care Center in Macomb, IL on May 9, 2016. Robert was born on February 19, 1938 in Monmouth, Illinois and is the son of Joseph Thomas and Elvena Elizabeth Erickson Young. He was raised in Monmouth where he attended local schools...

Fred Dixon of Oquawka, Illinois left the stage on Tuesday March 5, 2013. His life was like a great book, or a song that you can't get out of your head. It began in Burlington, Iowa on November 11, 1937. He was the firstborn child of Roy and Lily Dixon. Legend has it that he was born with a...

Katherine L. Tate, age 87, of Monmouth, Illinois passed away at OSF Holy Family Medical Center in Monmouth, IL on Monday, July 3, 2017 at 2:00 am. Katherine was born on July 4, 1929 in Monmouth and is the daughter of Alfred Levi and Katherine Martha Hayden White. She was raised in Monmouth where she attended local schools and...

Danny J. "Doby" Mettler, age 53, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at 11:38 on Saturday evening at OSF Holy Family Medical Center in Monmouth. Dobie was born on July 25, 1959 in Monmouth, and is the son of Joe and Helen Yaeger Mettler. Danny was raised in Monmouth where he attended locals schools and Monmouth High School. "Doby" married...

Kenneth H. "Whitey" "Shorty" Wilson, age 77, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 1:43 am. Kenneth was born on October 28, 1938 in Monmouth, Illinois and is the son of Charles S. and Vera G. Kilpatrick Wilson. He was raised in Monmouth where he attended...

Andrew Milton Melvin, age 95, of Oquawka, Illinois passed away suddenly at his residence in Oquawka, in the earlier morning hours of Sunday, August 25, 2013. Andrew was born April 28,1918, in Delavan, Minnesota the son of Whitney E. and Edith Renstrom Melvin. He married Rosalie May Moffitt on January 18,1948, at the Biggsville United Methodist Church. She survives....

Elmer L. Hull age 86, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at 8:21 pm on April 15th, at Rosewood Care Center in Galesburg, Illinois. Elmer was born on November 11, 1924 in Kirkwood, Illinois and is the son of Clarence and Bertha Roller Hull. His early years were in Norris town, Kentucky. He was also educated in the local schools...

Betty R. Boyd, age 77, of Biggsville, Illinois; passed away at OSF St. Mary Medical Center on Wednesday April 24, 2013 at 12:40 pm. Betty was born on March 27, 1936 in Plainville, Illinois and is the daughter of Clarence and Glenna Belts Ratliff. Betty was raised in Abingdon, Illinois where she attended public schools and high school. She...

Charles R. "Chuck" Montgomery, age 85, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away on Tuesday evening at Monmouth Nursing Home in Monmouth, Illinois. Chuck was born June 27, 1922 in Monmouth, Illinois and is the son of Henry and Ella Hinkle Montgomery. He was raised in Monmouth and attended Monmouth Schools and graduated from Monmouth High School. Chuck then entered service...

Lindell R. "Lindy" Parsons, age 66, of Oquawka, Illinois; passed away at Galesburg Cottage Hospital in Galesburg, Illinois on Sunday May 17, 2015 at 8:21 am. Lindy was born on May 18, 1948 in Oquawka, Illinois and is the son of Chester L. and Iva G. Boughton Parsons. He was raised in Oquawka where he attended local schools and...

Martha A. Cox, age 88, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at Rosewood Care Center in Galesburg, IL. on August 20, 2010 at 9:30 am. Martha was born October 12, 1921 in Monmouth, Illinois and is the daughter of William Oscar and Elizabeth Barnes Thompson. She was raised in Monmouth and attended the area schools and graduated from Monmouth High...

Viola Anne Seitz, age 77, of Oquawka, Illinois died at Oak Lane Nursing and Rehab in Stronghurst on Sunday January 11, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. She was born on September 3, 1931 to Hubert N. and Voila [Beaman] Simons in Winner, South Dakota. She was educated in Mt. Pleasant and Burlington, Iowa and graduated from G&O High School, Henderson...

Shirley Ann Manley, formerly of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday September 6th. A complete obituary will be published as soon as it is available. Services:Arrangements for her return and interment in Monmouth, are pending. Currently her family plans to receive friends at Turnbull Funeral Home on Friday from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Interment in the...

Alma Genevieve "Genie" Doty, age 77, of Monmouth, Illinois passed away at the Roseville Rehab & Health Care Center on Sunday March 18, at 12:15 pm. Genie was born on February 8, 1935 in Monmouth, and is the daughter of Hubert Frank and Alma Lottie Feighner Doty. She was raised in Monmouth where she attended public schools and Monmouth...

Velma J. Burgus, age 84, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at OSF Holy Family Medical Center in Monmouth, on March 23rd at 6:12 am. "Burgie" was born on December 17, 1924 in Burlington, Iowa and is the daughter of Harry A. and Agnes M. Heffner Burgus. " Burgie " attended schools in Burlington, Iowa and graduated from Burlington, Iowa....

David L. Whiteside, age 58, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at his residence earlier this year and most recently identified as the deceased. David was born January 27, 1949 in LaHarpe, Illinois and is the son of William and Bessie Lehr Whiteside. He was reared and educated in Roseville, and attended school there and in Monmouth. David graduated from...

Julia E. Schreiber, age 87, of Monmouth, Illinois; passed away at St. Joseph Hospital while at her winter home in Tucson, Arizona on December 29, 2007. Julia was born on July 29, 1920 in Hamlet, North Carolina and was the daughter of Asa C. and Cora Williamson Edwards. She graduated from Tabor City, North Carolina High School and then...

Ervin F. Torrance, age 59, of Gladstone, Illinois; passed away at 7:00 pm at the Pekin Medical Center in Pekin, Illinois on October 15, 2013. Ervin was born on March 24, 1954 in LaHarpe, Illinois and is the son of John Franklin "Frank" and Helen J. Russell Torrance. He was raised in Gladstone, Illinois where he attended local schools...

Doris L. Sebastian, age 87, of Gladstone, Illinois; passed away at Oak Lane Nursing and Rehab Center in Stronghurst, Illinois on Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 9:52 pm. She was born on August 14, 1928 in Olena, Illinois, the daughter of Marvin and Flossie (Mapes) Booton. She was reared and educated in the Country Schools of Olena and graduated...