Virginia June Machleith
Dec 31, 2014
Mrs. Virginia Machleith, age 98 of Ware, died at 6:50 a.m. Wednesday, December 31, 2014 in the Union County Nursing Home in Anna. She was born September 30, 1916 in Ware, the daughter of Everett and Grace Ballance Penrod. She married Charles D. Goodman in Union County. He preceded her in death on August 2, 1973. She later married Robert...
Ruth Anne Keistler
Dec 29, 2014
Mrs. Ruth Anne Keistler, age 92 of Anna, died Monday, December 29, 2014 in the Hillview Healthcare Center in Vienna. She was born November 27, 1922 in Anna, the daughter of Glenn C. and Pearl Craiglow Eddleman. She married Frank Keistler on February 7, 1941 in Jackson, MO. He preceded her in death on August 16, 2007 after 66 years...
Patricia Ruth Buckner
Dec 29, 2014
Mrs. Patricia Ruth Bartsch Buckner, age 73 of Anna, died at 8:45 a.m. Monday, December 29, 2014 in Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was born April 5, 1941 in Mt. Glen, near Cobden, the daughter of W.H. and Lucille Parmly Bartsch. She married Gary Buckner, her husband of 52 years, on February 10, 1962 in Cobden. Survivors include...
John Lewis Tarr Jr.
Dec 27, 2014
Mr. John Lewis Tarr Jr., age 46 of Anna, died at 12:10 p.m. Saturday, December 27, 2014 in the Anna Rehab and Nursing Center. He was born March 28, 1968 in Oil City, PA, the son of John Lewis Sr. and Charlotte Rose Fento Tarr. He married Lea Taormina on September 7, 2000 in Pleasantville, PA. John is survived by...
Ella Mae Haase
Dec 27, 2014
Mrs. Ella Mae Haase, age 89 of Anna, died at 5:00 a.m. Saturday, December 27, 2014 in the Jonesboro Rehab and Health Care Center. She was born April 4, 1925 in Anna, the daughter of Leo K. and Mabel Brown Bernhard. She married John Martin Haase Jr. on April 26, 1947 in Jonesboro. He preceded her in death on May...
Shirley Powles
Dec 26, 2014
Mrs. Shirley Powles, age 82 of Jonesboro, died Friday, December 26, 2014 in Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born March 26, 1932 in Dongola, the daughter of Herman and Mary E. Karraker Penninger. She married Corlis R. "Cotton" Powles on March 5, 1949 in Oceola, Arkansas. He preceded her in death on November 4, 2004. Shirley...
Dianne Reppert
Dec 25, 2014
Dianne Reppert, 68, of Anna, passed away on Thursday, December 25, 2014, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau.Dianne was born on September 6, 1946, in Carbondale, the daughter of Alfonzo and Opal Casper.She married Jerry L. Reppert on June 16, 1968, in Anna.Dianne was a member of the First Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Anna. She was a 1964 graduate of...
Charles "Waylon" Heckes
Dec 25, 2014
Mr. Charles "Waylon" Heckes, age 73, died Thursday, December 25th, 2014 at 4:15 p.m. at his home in Wolf Lake. Charles was born June 9, 1941 in Anna, the son of George and Minnie Geneva Frogge Heckes. He married Judith Burke on February 10, 1967 in Jonesboro. Charles was a railroad mechanic for 20 years and also worked at Illini...
Lucille M. O'Daniell
Dec 22, 2014
Mrs. Lucille M. O'Daniell, age 89 of Jonesboro, died at 8:30 a.m. Monday, December 22, 2014 in the Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born November 13, 1925 in Ware, the daughter of Sylvester and Grace F. Hoover Morse. She married Albert O'Daniell on March 13, 1943 in Jackson, Missouri. He preceded her in death on January 25, 1995....
Harry Joe Reynolds
Dec 19, 2014
Harry Joe Reynolds, a lifelong resident of Southern Illinois, died Friday, December 19th after a short fight with an uncurable cancer. He died in the company of his loving family. Harry, the younger son of William and Carriebell Reynolds, was raised in Dupo. He served an enlistment with the Marine Corps, where he spent time overseas with an artillery unit...
Marilyn Talaga
Dec 19, 2014
Mrs. Marilyn Talaga, age 75 of Dongola, died at 3:50 a.m. Friday, December 19, 2014 at her home. She was born September 19, 1939 in Chicago, the daughter of Robert and Mary Margaret Kenny Milton. She married Stan J. Talaga on July 22, 1963 in Jeffersonville, IN. Marilyn is survived by her three children, Mike Talaga, Cindy (Roger) Beauchamp and...
Robert D. Dehoet
Dec 18, 2014
Mr. Robert D. DeHoet, age 60 of Murphysboro, died at 10:57 a.m. Thursday, December 18, 2014 at his home. He was born October 8, 1954 in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Leonard and Yvonne Stone DeHoet. He married Charlene Evans on May 28, 1983 in Iowa City, Iowa. Robert is survived by his loving wife, Charlene DeHoet of Murphysboro;...
Virginia Cora Ayers Barrass
Dec 15, 2014
Mrs. Virginia C. Ayers Barrass, age 96 of Harrisburg died at 4:27 pm Monday, December 15, 2014 at the Harrisburg Medical Center in Harrisburg. She was born September 6, 1918 in Mill Creek to Claude and Effie Goodman Heilig. She first married Virden Ayers on July 19, 1938 in Mantino, and later married Thomas Barrass in 1978 in Saline County....
Charles R. "Charlie" Haire
Dec 15, 2014
Mr. Charles R. "Charlie" Haire, age 78 of Anna, died at 8:55 a.m. Monday, December 15, 2014 in the Regional One Health in Memphis, Tennessee. He was born July 21, 1936 in Cobden, the son of John R. and Lydia Trees Haire. He married Patricia A. "Pat" Millis on June 30, 1957 in Anna. She preceded him in death on...
Donald E. Johnson
Dec 13, 2014
Mr. Donald E. Johnson, age 84 of Jonesboro, died at 3:15 a.m. Saturday, December 13, 2014 at his home. He was born September 16, 1930 in Reynoldsville, the son of Earl and Blanche Freeman Johnson. He married Ervina M. Rogers on January 9, 1949 in Anna. Donald is survived by his wife, Ervina M. Johnson of Jonesboro; one daughter, Rhonda...
Frank Joseph Tierney
Dec 12, 2014
Frank Joseph Tierney was born in Youngstown, Ohio November 24, 1911. He will be buried in Rome City, Indiana, next to his wife, Vera Williams Tierney, who passed in July 1987. Frank and Vera moved to Cobden, Illinois in the early 1970's, Frank worked in Civil Construction throughout the Midwest and from Louisiana to Michigan. His last position was Superintendent...
Ralph Edward Layman
Dec 9, 2014
Mr. Ralph E. Layman, 84, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 at Anna Rehab and Nursing in Anna. Ralph was born November 23rd, 1930 in Southern township in Williamson County, IL to Lillian Throgmorton Layman and Harry Earl Layman. He attended Carterville High School graduating in 1948. During this...
Bonnie Emmalee Pickel
Dec 8, 2014
Mrs. Bonnie Emmalee Pickel, age 81 of McClure, died at 12:05 p.m. Monday, December 8, 2014 in the Chateau Girardeau, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was born January 20, 1933 in Union County, the daughter of Earl Eugene and Viola Wareing Eudy. She married James F. Pickel on December 5, 1954 in Anna. He preceded her in death on March...
Jean Barnes Mccarty Fisher
Dec 6, 2014
Mrs. Jean Barnes McCarty Fisher, age 87, formerly of Anna, Illinois, passed away peacefully on December 6, 2014 in Round Rock, Texas. Jean was born July 17,1927 in Carbondale, Illinois to Thomas Elmer and Beulah Pearl Barnes. She was a war wife during the Korean war, living in Japan for a year and a half with a young daughter and...
Leon "Lee" James Dodd
Dec 4, 2014
Mr. Leon "Lee" James Dodd, age 86, of Anna, died at 9:50 a.m. Thursday, December 4, 2014 in the Illinois Veteran's Home in Anna. He was born December 28, 1927 in Dongola, the son of Leland Oaks and Edith Eddleman Dodd. Lee is survived by his nephew, Terry (Sharon) Grissom of Anna; great nephew, Terry Allen (Stefanie) Grissom of Carrier...
