REMEMBERING THE LIVES THEY LIVED FREE December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 • Vol. 46 No. 24

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 1 2 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 REMEMBERING THE LIVES THEY LIVED NORMAN FREDERICK ROVEY II Dec. 29, 1953-Oct. 19, 2020 About the issue Our annual REMEMBERING edition, the last issue of the year, reminds us small-town folks that people we thought we knew we didn’t know as well as we wish we had, and those we didn’t know, we “There is nothing he would not tackle” wish we had known. It reminds us that many more have died this year than we could possibly write REMEMBERING | Bruce Rushton about, so this presentation is always just a sample of the richness of lives gone. We strive for diversity among those we include, and always know we fall Norman Frederick Rovey II – Fred to could twirl a tree so that people might skied, but didn’t know how to swim, short of the diversity that’s available to us. Readers most everyone – had a knack. not notice a bare spot.” actually,” Casey says. Eventually, he were invited to submit memorials; 26 are in our print edition and more are online. REMEMBERING At 10, he was driving bulldozers When he was 40, Rovey turned learned to swim, but not well. That tells us not only how much this town has lost this – his father ran N.F. Rovey and hero. did not stop him from piloting fi shing year, but how much from each life it has gained. Son Excavating. Growing up on The father had gotten his three- boats in Florida and Alaska, where he –Fletcher Farrar, editor and CEO South Fourth Street, Rovey once year-old son out by scrambling to the became a Ketchikan guide within two declared that he hoped to become a second story and breaking a window, years of showing up and dropping his garbage hauler. Instead, he became but his two-year-old daughter was fi rst line in local waters. Hunting was NORMAN FREDERICK ROVEY II - 3 a Springfi eld fi refi ghter, rising to the still inside the burning house on East a passion that took him as far away as DR. CLARICE FORD - 4 rank of captain. Phillips Street. Firefi ghters rushed in. Africa, where he pursued zebras and JAMES ROBERT THOMPSON - 5 After being diagnosed with cancer, Under the bed, Rovey fi gured. He was wildebeests, but he never lost his love Rovey had time to plan his fi nal right. Scooping the girl up, Rovey for deer and sundry Illinois varmints. JACK KRIEL - 6 resting place. He dug the hole. He He could sit outside all night long, MARY SCHNIRRING - 7 built, then moved, with the help of a waiting for coyotes, and was much WILLIAM RICHARD SCHNIRRING - 7 crane, a concrete vault that consumes in demand by farmers seeking to CORDY TINDELL VIVIAN - 8 eight lots at Rovey Cemetery – his eliminate pests. He ate squirrels. LINDA “LIN” RAKERS - 9 family donated land for the graveyard Rovey did not waste time off JEROME “JERRY” JACOBSON - 10 years ago – in Farmersville. Between during his years in the fi re department. CHARLES RICHARD HOOGLAND - 11 planning and execution, it took years. With his work schedule giving him MICHAEL BELLAMY PLOG - 12 And in October, Rovey was laid to rest 48 hours off after every 24 hours on JAMES HENRY KROHE - 13 in his 1976 MG sports car. duty, he acquired a string of rental LOUIS SHAVER MYERS - 14 They played “My Way” at his properties on North Amos Avenue. ARNOLD ALLEN STERN - 14 funeral. “He built three duplexes and bought ALEX MCCRAY - 15 Rovey could build or fi x most several houses and remodeled them,” MICHAEL PATRICK MANNING - 16 anything. Long after others might have Hafel says. Rovey worked for the fi re DANYEL ANN “DEE” (WATTERS) PITTS - 17 given up, he’d keep wrenching until department for 26 years and traveled he got equipment running. “There to Europe, Australia and New Zealand JOYEL ROSE “JOY” WATTERS-HALL - 17 was nothing he would not tackle,” but lived humbly in Springfi eld. His LEROY JORDAN - 19 says Paul Hafel, who grew up seven home a few houses away from the BARRY JOSEPH LOCHER - 21 blocks away from Rovey, attended duplexes he built is worth less than LINDA SUE ANDERS - 23 school with him and became a lifelong $74,000, according to the Sangamon FRANK “BUZZ” U. BAPTIST - 23 friend. At 20, Rovey remodeled his County supervisor of assessments. DR. JOHN ERIC BLEYER - 23 older sister’s kitchen. He had no depth Rovey started his fi nal project after BRYCE BROOKS - 23 of experience and she had no worries. receiving grim news: He had leukemia. RAYMOND S. CACHARES - 23 His sister Bonnie Casey says that he His doctor gave him 10, maybe 12 THOMAS CANAVAN JR. - 23 did plenty of research before showing Fred Rovey, never afraid of anything, was buried years. “After he was diagnosed, he NANCY LANPHIER CHAPIN - 23 up with tools. in his car. started talking about getting buried ROBERT “BOB” E. CHURCH - 23 “He would fi nd the right people in his car,” Hafel says. “He planned DR. ELVIN GLENN ZOOK - 24 to talk to – he would ask them all it all.” He moved the concrete vault JERRY (KRAJEC) FARLEY - 24 the right questions,” Casey recalls. “I sprinted to an ambulance, his face from his home to the cemetery always trusted.” The work quality, she tight with determination and dread last year; after that, he lowered his JERRY GARVIN - 24 says, was fi ne, the rates even better. in an unforgettable photograph that 43-year-old MG into the ground. It RENE HAZEL GUM - 24 “They were very reasonable – he was ran on the front page. The girl died was, Hafel says, the only car Rovey KAREN LOUISE HAMRICK - 24 learning on our dime,” Casey says the next day from smoke inhalation. ever bought that was brand new, and JAIME KORNFELD - 24 with a laugh. Rovey and other fi refi ghters attended it still looked it. He didn’t fi nish a MARVIN LAIRD - 25 There was no better Christmas tree the visitation. marker – that’ll come later, Hafel says, MIDGE LANGFELDER - 25 salesman. Casey recalls her brother “He went from being sky-high to and will be simple, pretty much just ANNA BELL MURPHY - 25 dazzling customers while working with being about as low as you can go,” Rovey’s name. LINDA MARIE PECORARO - 25 her husband selling trees at roadside Hafel says. And beneath, the top is forever BARBARA ELIZABETH RAWE - 25 stands. He started at 12 or so and did Casey says that her brother had no down. ADRON SANDERS - 25 it for fi ve or six years. “Fred was really fear. He would climb trees, chainsaw DENNIS SHACKELFORD - 25 good,” Casey says, “He had such a in hand, to remove limbs before Contact Bruce Rushton at [email protected] PAT STAFF - 25 great line for selling trees. I think he sectioning out trunks. “He water- . ROMIE D. TURNER - 25 CONNIE VAN HOUTEN - 25

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 3 DR. CLARICE FORD Sept. 29, 1957-April 19, 2020 “Whatever it takes” – UIS offi cial led with love REMEMBERING | Rachel Otwell

Dr. Clarice Ford lived a storied life before coming to Springfi eld where her impact will be felt for generations to come. Ford earned degrees from Antioch Univer- sity and Fielding Graduate University. She held positions at Berry College, Youngstown State University and Ohio State University. Her fi rst positions at University of Illinois Springfi eld, in 2008, were executive director of the diversity center and associate vice chancellor of student services. In 2014, she became the vice chancellor for student affairs. She died earlier this year after a brief illness. A fi rst-generation college gradu- ate, Ford was called to work in student affairs “by accident” – while earning a master’s degree and working with “ju- venile delinquents” as she described in a recorded UIS event. She would go on to foster the growth of countless students from marginalized backgrounds, helping them fi nd their own callings and provid- ing them with support to make it to the fi nish line. Ford said she loved her job because of the ability to meet and talk with students and address their concerns, “but most of all to watch them grow and Ford addressed the crowd at the UIS Student Union groundbreaking in May of 2016. PHOTO BY DANIEL AGUILAR / UIS graduate, it gets no better than that.” Ford was stylish, stern and generous with her love and compassion. She was a sports fan – especially enthusiastic about the Justin Rose, a former student who is now dren. Ford welcomed others to be their In 2019, The Outlet, a Springfi eld Pittsburgh Steelers – who was dedicated to in the position she fi rst held at UIS as authentic selves because she was authentic, mentoring program for fatherless youth, her sorority, philanthropy and investment director of the diversity center. “I’m from said Rose. While diversity and inclusion gave Ford its Community Leader- in youth. She was also a proud veteran, the west side of Chicago, and when we have become corporate and academic ship Award. Outlet Founder and CEO having served in the U.S. Army. In 2017, both met each other, I thought she was buzzwords, Ford put them into practice. Michael Phelon was joined by Lt. Gov. she received a Seven Seals Award from the from Chicago. Our energy, our approach As a UIS student, Brittany Hilder- Juliana Stratton in presenting the award Illinois Employer Support of the Guard to life, the way we talk – everything made brand was counseled by Ford before to Ford last year. Ford was one of The and Reserve for her support of veterans me feel like we knew each other already,” enrolling in the Public Affairs Reporting Outlet’s founding board members. and active military. said Rose. They immediately hit it off, program, which she graduated from in Ford’s legacy will live on, not only Ford’s best known phrase was “what- though in reality Ford was born in Penn- 2016 after interning with Illinois Times. in the countless students whose lives ever it takes” – a missive to students sylvania. Rose credits Ford with having the She’s now a public information offi cer she touched, but also in a UIS fund in to graduate and succeed no matter the foresight to merge the college’s women’s in Missouri. Hilderbrand also recently her name and a planned section of the obstacles. In 2009, she started the ongoing center and diversity center, a step that has started her own writing service, and said UIS library in her honor. The Outlet Necessary Steps Mentoring program at meant more cohesion and better support Ford’s infl uence is partially to credit for has also set up a scholarship fund in her UIS. The program, including a class, is for students, he said. her successes. “She was truly a person name. “Dr. Ford’s legacy will forever oriented toward fi rst-generation college Rose said Ford’s role in the lives of who motivates the students. I know I was live on through the many lives that we students and features a book she authored. students often transcended that of adviser. one of those people, and she was also a work with at The Outlet. I am a better In addition to fostering student success, Many came to call her “Mama Ford.” She nurturing soul,” said Hilderbrand. “No person, father and husband because of she was also a proponent for education was also an ordained minister – faith and matter what the circumstances were, she her friendship and mentorship. She has about Black history and culture. family were foundational pillars of her life. had an open ear and an open mind and always pushed those around her to dream One testament to the power of her Surviving her is husband Atlas Ford Sr., she continued to provide guidance and big and to never take no for an answer,” mentorship is evident in her protégé, as well as nine children and 14 grandchil- push you forward.” wrote Phelon.

4 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 JAMES ROBERT THOMPSON May 8, 1936-Aug. 14, 2020 Big Jim REMEMBERING | Robert E. Hartley

From his graduation in 1959 at Northwestern University School of Law until he died Aug. 14, 2020, at age 84, James Robert Thompson made an indelible imprint on Illinois history. Over those six decades, he lived life large, most of it in public view from one end of the state to the other. Thus, his personal label: Big Jim Thompson. The media that seemingly followed his every footstep summarized the obvious high- lights: Prosecution and conviction of former governor Otto Kerner; 14 years as governor, more than any other in Illinois history. Those, enhanced by his dominating six-foot, six-inch frame and a personal relentless publicity ma- chine, are notable. But there is more. Thompson’s story is best condensed in three epochs: 1. Intellectual growth and high-profi le prosecutorial career, 1959-1976 2. Four terms as governor, 1977-1991 3. Law fi rm powerhouse, 1991 to retirement Thompson joined the Northwestern law school faculty after graduation. Working with his mentor, Professor Fred Inbau, he coauthored law books and fought public legal Former Gov. Jim Thompson in his offi ce at the law fi rm of Winston & Strawn. PHOTO BYBILL HOGAN/CHICAGO TRIBUNE battles. On April 29, 1964, Thompson argued the case of Escobedo v. Illinois before the U. S. Supreme Court. He lost a 5-4 decision, but son for the second epoch. in 1988. Owners of the White Sox baseball prestigious performance at a national level fi red the fi rst shot in a revolution that altered As a Republican he was elected governor team threatened to leave for Florida if the occurred when he was named to the 9-11 all practices in questioning suspects and ob- in 1976 by a large margin. A fl amboyant legislature failed to approve fi nancing for a Commission, which revealed the failings of taining confessions. Inbau called it “the fi nest campaign style served to energize his followers. new ball park. With the bill to save the White many government agencies at the time of oral argument.” Thompson was 28 years old. Initially, he was a babe in the political wilder- Sox hanging by a thread in the fi nal hours of crisis. He considered that responsibility one Seven years later, after legal victories and ness, but he matured rapidly. the legislative session, Thompson and associ- of the most important in his life. Although losses and one year as an administrator in the For most of his 14 years in offi ce, Demo- ates traveled to Springfi eld and lobbied the rumored as a possibility for U. S. president state attorney general’s offi ce, Thompson was crats controlled the legislature. That rarely measure to passage. He saved the White Sox or vice president, those opportunities never named U. S. attorney, with offi ces in Chicago. crippled Thompson as he introduced an ava- for Chicago. materialized. He held that position from 1971 to 1975, lanche of policy ideas, many requiring lavish Thompson did not seek a fi fth term. In Was he loved? Certainly, by his wife, during which he was in media spotlights expenditures. One political observer described January 1991 he started the third epoch. Jayne, and daughter, Samantha. continually. his governing style: “He ran as a Republican During Thompson’s fi rst campaign for Was he respected? Yes, by all who ben- Most noteworthy during this period – and but often governed as a Democrat.” governor he had no job, and the Chicago efi ted from his power and patronage. controversial for the rest of his life – was the After winning a second term by a large law fi rm of Winston and Strawn paid him Was he benevolent? Ask convicted former prosecution and conviction of federal appeals a salary of $50,000. In 1991, Thompson margin of votes in 1978, it appeared Thomp- governor George Ryan, who Thompson court judge, and former governor, Otto entertained offers for his services. Winston defended pro bono. son would never have a close contest. That Kerner. To this day, many who remember and Strawn had the inside track, and he Could he govern? He did what was picture changed in 1982 when former U. S. Kerner fondly question the evidence, tactics joined the fi rm. Two years later he was necessary to win. senator Adlai E. Stevenson III battled him to and politics of the case. named chairman, a position he held for His life in a word: Memorable. Overshadowed by the Kerner trial is the wire, Thompson winning by 5,074 votes 13 years. He built the fi rm into a national Thompson’s “crusade to clean up Chicago.” out of 3.6 million cast. Stevenson tried again and international legal giant, and earned a Robert E. Hartley is the author of Big Jim Over the course of numerous trials, the U. S. in 1986 and lost. personal fortune. Thompson of Illinois. His most recent attorney’s offi ce tried and convicted several Thompson had his failures, just like most Rather than hide behind a desk, he book, Power, Purpose and Prison: Stories close associates of Chicago Mayor Richard J. governors, but few blunders stained his continued to lobby the legislature for high- about Former Illinois Governors, features Daley for corrupt practices. record. One victory that still resonates with profi le clients while maintaining visibility Thompson. Those accomplishments prepared Thomp- citizens, especially those in Chicago, occurred in Chicago legal and social circles. His most

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 5 JACK KRIEL Feb. 12, 1943-Oct. 24, 2020 “Went to seminary, became a carpenter” REMEMBERING | Rachel Otwell

Once, when challenged to describe himself Springfi eld Area Arts Council, where she in six words, Jack Kriel wrote, “Went to became executive director. Jack supported seminary, became a carpenter.” Raised a her ambition and served as the head of the Catholic, he had tried his hand at becoming household. “He did the cooking, he did a professional man of faith before forging much of the child-rearing,” said Penny. Lau- his own non-religious, yet spiritual, path. ren Kriel, 33, remembers her father cooking As a contractor with his own construction in the kitchen while she’d sit at the table company, he hired ex-convicts and once doing homework. A skilled storyteller, Jack worked on a congressman’s deck. Those loved to tell mythological tales that came familiar with his work knew him as a crafts- with a moral lesson. man. He volunteered his skills and time for When he wasn’t making Lauren and efforts such as the Enos Park Neighborhood her brother breakfast or dinner, he’d hand Improvement Association and Habitat for the kids a hammer or a screwdriver. “My Humanity. He could be as silly as he was brother and I used to go to job sites a lot, contemplative. He was a beloved uncle to which was really fun.” Lauren, an actor, was his 22 nieces and nephews. Many knew him working as a stage manager in Asheville, as “Papa Jack.” He was philosophical and North Carolina, earlier this year when the thoughtful. He loved to tell tall tales. production halted due to the pandemic. His wife lovingly referred to him as “Mr. She came home in April to look over her Mom.” He was accustomed to fl ipping parents. pancakes for the two children who were the Jack’s love for dance stayed with him center of his life. After a Parkinson’s Disease until his fi nal months. Because of the pan- diagnosis on his 64th birthday, he stayed demic, he could no longer go to movement positive and active. Related dementia had classes in-person, but they transitioned to set in during his later years. After a bad fall Zoom. “I got to meet some of the people at home in August, he would tell people it that he met through those groups, and was from a topple from his bike. Perhaps people were endeared to him. It was really he’d been remembering a fall during one of sweet,” said Lauren. “Even people who his cross-country bicycle adventures decades didn’t meet Papa in his prime caught some Jack Kriel with his two children, Langston and Lauren, and wife, Penny. COURTESY OF LAUREN KRIEL prior. of his essence. It was really nice to witness Jack was born in San Francisco in 1943 that.” and also spent some of his early years in In August, Jack broke his hip from a Congregation (ALUUC). Malan said Kriel said. Even after the Parkinson’s diagnosis, New Orleans. He was living in the Bay Area fall, which required surgery and resulted in was a role model. The pair would talk about Jack was there to lend a helping hand. when he met his wife, Penny Wollan-Kriel. ongoing hospitalization at various places. their “alternative worldviews.” They went on After she moved to a fi xer-upper in They were at a mutual friend’s house for Because of the pandemic, visitations were a men’s retreat together where they walked Springfi eld, he came to oversee her work. dinner. She asked if he wanted to go see made more diffi cult due to restrictions Amadeus on fi re and shared stories. Malan looked “I turned over a fi ve-gallon bucket, he sat the movie with her. “It was kind meant to mitigate the spread of infection. up to Kriel’s parenting and who he was as a there, and with his supervision I tiled the of a Sadie Hawkins thing.” He accepted It was unknown at fi rst whether any family person. “He had integrity. He would think bathroom.” with the condition she attend his 40th members would be able to sit with him about what he was saying and make an “I think the biggest thing I remember birthday party, and from there their fate during his fi nal moments. Penny was able to effort to say what he actually meant,” said about Jack is our philosophical discus- was sealed. Penny said Jack was a romantic suit up in PPE and be with him in his last Malan. “He was extremely reliable. If he sions,” she said. “That man loved to talk who loved to dance. She had been a dancer hours. Lauren got as close as she could, sit- committed to do a thing he would do it.” about philosophy and the meaning of since childhood and was delighted to have ting outside a hospital window, sharing her Mary Ryan also met Kriel through the life.” One of his common refrains that a dance partner. He’d write her poetry. Like fi nal words with her father over the phone ALUUC and he took her under his wing on most resonated was, “You have to be pres- his favorite poet, e.e. cummings, he wrote in her mother held up to him. Lauren said many projects. They fi rst met about two de- ent to win.” lowercase. He was “full of life, and he loved while she understood why the precautions cades ago. They worked on updates for the Penny said there’s an easy way for those life and loved family,” said Penny. were being taken, it was painful to be that building, which was built in the mid-’90s on who knew and loved Jack through the Penny was a Springfi eld native with close yet distant in her father’s fi nal mo- Woodside Road. Jack was a co-supervisor of ALUUC to keep him in their memory, family in the city. After she and Jack married ments. “I’m still grappling with the weight the interior build and served on the facilities once in-person Sunday service returns. The and had son Langston and daughter Lauren, of the grief.” committee. Ryan had an interest in tile beautiful wood-slatted ceilings were var- they came to Springfi eld in 1993 to raise John Malan met Jack through the work, a skill Kriel helped her develop. He nished and fi nished by him. “So when you them. Penny had a 17-year career at the Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist was a “patient and amazing teacher,” she look up at the ceiling, Jack was involved.”

6 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 MARY SCHNIRRING May 24, 1929-Jan. 12, 2020 WILLIAM RICHARD SCHNIRRING March 1, 1929-Jan. 26, 2020 A generous power couple REMEMBERING | Karen Ackerman Witter

Bill and Mary Schnirring met at Hay-Edwards In 2013 Bill and Mary surprised their four Elementary School in third grade. Th ey married grandchildren by establishing a donor-advised in 1950 and died two weeks apart in January fund for each of them so they can continue 2020. Th ey were devoted to each other and this tradition of giving. Th is next generation their family and loved Springfi eld. Together has also learned from their grandparents and they had an enormous impact. Bill received the parents the value of giving time. “Giving one’s Copley First Citizen award in 1989 and was time can only enhance that donation and truly named Laureate of the Lincoln Academy of aff ect organizations and people in need,” said Illinois in 2012. Bill was quick to acknowledge granddaughter Caitlin Dungan Simhauser. others. In accepting the Order of Lincoln, Bill Bill’s long career with Springfi eld Electric said, “Success and achievement are the result Supply Company began in 1952 when he of people working together – teamwork.” He worked alongside his father, who started this referenced his good fortune of serving on a lot family-owned business. Headquartered in of winning teams. His best teammate was his Springfi eld, Bill grew the company to over 370 wife, Mary. Grandson Scott Germeraad says Bill employees with branch locations throughout the and Mary were a power couple before that was Midwest, and a third generation is contributing a “thing.” to the company’s success. Kathy and Carolyn Bill and Mary both graduated from the are active members of the board, and Randy University of Illinois. Products of Springfi eld and Dan are directly involved in key corporate public schools, they believed in public positions. education. Th ey graduated from Springfi eld Mike Barker was a college student when High School (SHS) in 1946 and were dedicated he fi rst met Bill at a career fair. Barker was supporters of SHS. Bill was inducted into the immediately impressed with Bill’s caring, SHS Hall of Fame in 2013, and the auditorium personal interest. Th at encounter landed Barker is named for Bill and Mary. his fi rst job with Springfi eld Electric. Barker Daughters Kathy Germeraad and Carolyn is now chairman of the board and former Dungan describe their parents as two of the president/CEO. Bill was both friend and most generous people they have ever met. “Th ey mentor to Barker. For 40 years Barker had a were always looking for ways to help others,” front-row seat to what made Bill so special. says Germeraad. Dungan fondly recalls holiday “Bill was the most selfl ess person I ever meals, where they never knew who would met,” says Barker. “I think he was so respected help others believe they ‘have to,’ others ‘want Although Bill and Mary had a big impact on be at their table. It was a tradition to invite because he was so respectful and considerate to,’ but for Bill and Mary it was they ‘get to,’” some of Springfi eld’s most visible community an international student at Sangamon State of others.” Bill’s philosophy continues to guide remarked Curtis. “Being mentored by Bill made organizations, it was their small acts of kindness University to join them, and these relationships the company….do the right thing; be more me want to be a mentor to others.” to friends as well as strangers, delivered quietly extended beyond a holiday gathering. interested in how things aff ect people rather Bill was involved in professional and but compassionately, that may best defi ne their Bill’s and Mary’s generosity showed no than how they aff ect the company. civic organizations, nationally and locally. He spirit of caring and generosity. Barker says Bill’s bounds, and it came from the heart. Th ey Springfi eld Electric employees were treated encouraged his employees to get involved also. experience in the Army from 1950-1951 during participated in a myriad of business, civic like family. Personable and approachable, Bill He was often asked to lead capital campaigns, the Korean Confl ict gave him an appreciation and charitable organizations. Th ey also were was everyone’s role model and mentor to many. and he served on the boards of organizations for diversity that lasted a lifetime and was quick to help someone they did not know Barker also admired Mary, the matriarch of the too numerous to count. Bill received the manifested in his professional and personal life. personally but who needed a helping hand. company, who was an informed participant on Outstanding Philanthropist award by the Th ere’s much to be learned from the way Th ey volunteered their time and talents and the board of directors and gracious host at many National Society of Fundraising Executives, Bill and Mary Schnirring led their lives – in were community philanthropists, instilling company picnics. Sertoma Service to Mankind award and the their work, community service and with their this spirit of philanthropy in their children and Ed Curtis, president and CEO of Memorial electrical distribution industry’s highest national family. Live a life of service. Acknowledge and grandchildren. Health System, also considers Bill a mentor. He individual award. appreciate others. Share the credit. Be kind, Bill and Mary Schnirring, Kathy and believes he’s a better person and CEO having Mary’s community service included the generous and grateful. Bill and Mary’s legacy of a Randy Germeraad and Carolyn and Dan seen how Bill and Mary lived their lives. Bill Junior League, P.E.O., King’s Daughters, DAR, culture of caring lives on in their family, business Dungan are all committed to giving back. served on Memorial’s board of directors for Illinois State Museum, Family Service Center and many people they inspired. Each family has established a donor-advised 32 years; Mary volunteered and was an active and other organizations. Mary was devoted fund at the Community Foundation for member of Friends of Memorial Medical to her children, grandchildren and great- Karen Ackerman Witter has long admired the the Land of Lincoln (CFLL) to direct their Center. “Bill modeled a life of service,” says grandchildren and always put others’ needs entire Schnirring family. She fi rst met Kathy when giving to causes that matter most to them. Curtis. “Some people who have the means to above her own. they were students at Springfi eld High School.

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 7 CORDY TINDELL VIVIAN July 30, 1924 – July 17, 2020 Field general for civil rights REMEMBERING | Doug Kamholz

Five years before his death last July at age nessee. There he encountered others who 95, civil rights icon Rev. C. T. Vivian was trailblazed much of the modern U.S. civil strolling the halls of Macomb High School rights movement. By 1963 he was with the in the Illinois town where he spent most of Southern Christian Leadership Conference his younger years. where King made him National Director of “I would never have been who I was if Affi liates. His most public moment came in not for Macomb, Illinois,” he told an audi- 1965 when he confronted County Sheriff ence during an earlier visit in 2010. In 2013 Jim Clark on the courthouse steps in Selma, he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Alabama. Vivian spoke forcefully on behalf Freedom. At his death The New York Times of people being denied voting rights. Then called him “fi eld general” for Martin Luther the burly sheriff broke a fi nger landing a King, Jr. left roundhouse to Vivian’s face, sending the Six-year-old Vivian was brought across slender protester to the ground. “It was a the Mississippi River to Macomb by his clear engagement,” Vivian recounted later. mother and grandmother in 1930 because “This is what movement meant.” Vivian’s they knew the city’s schools were integrated. work continued, including several years back President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to civil rights leader Rev. Cordy He told his story with proud affection. “We in Illinois organizing in Chicago. He settled Tindell 'C.T.' Vivian in the East Room at the White House on Nov. 20, 2013. lost everything in the Great Depression, and in Atlanta for the last decades of his life with (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT) they wanted to protect the one thing they his second wife, activist and author Octavia, still had,” he recalled, speaking of himself in until her death in 2011. 2010. “They wanted to leave Missouri be- Macomb High School invited Vivian cause of segregation, so we came to Macomb to return in 2015 for the dedication of the Early this fall the city of Macomb fraternity, staked a large open tent under an- because I could start fi rst grade here and go school library in his honor. On Oct. 1, partnered with area civil rights advocates to cient catalpa trees. More than 100 distanced all the way through college.” students were gathered in Fellheimer Audi- celebrate the little boy who came to town in and masked mourners heard Western’s Cordy Tindell was shortened to C. T. torium listening to a 90-year-old civil rights 1930 and went on to help shape a nation. interim president, Martin Abraham, Mayor for most of his life. He did enroll in Lincoln soldier refl ect. The event was well-covered Mayor Mike Inman hosted two of Viv- Inman and others speak of Vivian’s impor- Grade School and went on to Macomb by reporter Lainie Steelman from The ian’s daughters, Jo Ann Walker and Denise tance locally and far beyond. High. He is recalled as an active student McDonough County Voice. “It started here,” Morse, for the dedication of the Vivian Then a dozen dark-suited Alpha Phi leader, including membership in the Spider Steelman quoted Vivian. “I also learned that Homesite as an Illinois State Historical Site Alpha men, young and old, moved to the Club, students who wrote for the yearbook. no matter what happens, you’re better off and Macomb’s proclamation of every Sept. microphone. Vivian, like King and many That success followed him when he enrolled having stood up to whatever the problem, 26 as Rev. Dr. C. T. Vivian Day. well-known Black leaders, belonged. These in what is now Western Illinois University than you are ducking, lying, grinning.” Vivian’s offi cial private funeral was current members gathered in the tent-shade where he quickly gained the title of sports Patrick Twomey is Macomb’s school in Atlanta on July 22. One day before, a for the fraternity’s Omega Service Rite. They editor for The Western Courier. His bylined superintendent. In an interview for this horse-drawn carriage carried his remains prayed and spoke and fi nally sang Viv- column was called “POPPIN’ OFF.” piece, he recalled being on the phone with past King’s tomb and to the Georgia Capitol ian into a chapter reserved for all deceased Vivian left Western long before earning Vivian while making arrangements for the where he lay in state. Shortly after, Barack brothers, the Omega chapter. a degree. Most accounts say racism played a library dedication and being asked if he were Obama’s eulogy appeared in Springfi eld on part, specifi cally that a professor denied him related to John Twomey. In fact John, now the front page of the monthly Pure News. They ended singing these words: membership in the English Club for reasons 97, is Patrick’s uncle. Vivian remembered “Today we’ve lost a founder of modern Farewell, dear brother, transcendent are thou of race. Decades later the school awarded interviewing Twomey, a miler on the 1940s America,” the former president wrote, add- Thy spirit shall dwell with us now him a bachelor of arts degree. track team at Western back when he was ing that 2020’s massive rights protests likely We cherish thy mem’ry, thy good name we’ll Peoria became Vivian’s next home. He sports editor. “They told me this cross-coun- gave “the Reverend a fi nal dose of hope revere was recreation director for Carver Commu- try stuff was pretty rough,” begins Vivian’s before his long and well-deserved rest.” To thy glory, thy honor, BROTHER, dear. nity Center (which turned 100 in 2020). In “POPPIN’ OFF” column from Nov. 11, Another moving tribute rolled out on 1947 he led his fi rst sit-in demonstrations, 1942. He goes on to marvel at Twomey and a muggy, late-July Sunday on one of three Doug Kamholz of Springfi eld graduated from attempting to integrate Barton’s Cafeteria. others who run distance races bare-legged vacant lots along East Adams Street, said to Sangamon State University’s Public Affairs It worked. Of course the method became in whatever weather. He calls them “the be the only part of Macomb African Ameri- Reporting program, after which he sold work famous a dozen years later at Woolworth’s thinclads” and praises their endurance. So cans could live in a century ago. It’s where to the New York Times, Washington Post, lunch counter in Greensboro, North Caro- in 2015 in that school auditorium there was the Vivian family’s modest home stood, not CNN, NPR and many lesser media outlets. lina. a reunion after 72 years. As the superinten- far from some railroad tracks. The NAACP He had the privilege of interviewing the Dalai By 1955 Vivian was studying divinity at dent described it recently, “They hugged of McDonough County along with Alpha Lama, Gerald Ford and several civil rights American Baptist College in Nashville, Ten- and hugged and hugged.” Phi Alpha, the nation’s oldest Black college icons, though not Rev. Vivian.

8 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 LINDA “LIN” RAKERS Sept. 19, 1947-Nov. 1, 2020 A passionate and compassionate educator REMEMBERING | Cinda Ackerman Klickna

A few years ago, Linda “Lin” Rakers of Springfi eld told her friend Barb Lestikow that she planned to go sky diving. “That was Lin,” explains Lestikow. “She always had a zest for life, and when she was determined to do something, she did it.” Another friend, Harriet Arkley, tells of the time years ago when she and Rakers played racquetball. “We were pretty competitive, but when Lin was pregnant, she didn’t play as hard. When the pregnancy went longer than was in her plan, she called me up and asked me to play a game. We did, and that night she delivered. Lin was always very strong, physically and emotionally, and always very determined to get something accomplished.” Rakers accomplished much in her years in education. Growing up in Taylorville, she always knew she wanted to be a teacher. After earning her bachelor’s degree at Illinois State University (ISU), she accepted her fi rst teaching assignment in Peoria where she taught third grade. After fi ve years there, she came to Springfi eld, Rakers at her retirement party, 2007. taught elementary grades, became a reading specialist, and then went on to be a well-respected principal. She served as principal at three schools: Withrow, principals, and developing their leadership says, “Lin was passionate about her job interested her; in fact, one of the groups Fairview and Blackhawk. While teaching, skills. and compassionate about students. She listed for donations in her memory is the she earned her master’s degree at ISU, Lestikow says, “It didn’t matter what expected a lot from us and gave us a Sea Turtle Conservancy. and even though it wasn’t required we might be discussing, Lin would always lot, was always upbeat, making faculty People recently posted comments to get a Ph.D. to become a principal, turn to the topic of her family. She was meetings and school assemblies fun. She about Rakers on Facebook: “respected,” Rakers – again with her determination – an amazing educator, but what fi rst comes was respected for her leadership and “outstanding in many wonderful ways,” completed the program at Southern Illinois to my mind is her love for life all centered always stayed up on teaching practices. It “compassionate to anyone and everyone University. around people. I think of her as a wife, was common to fi nd a note on your desk she touched.” She always had a smile on Several women who started teaching in mother, grandmother and friend.” from her with just a simple message of her face and a warm welcome to all she Springfi eld around the same time and then For over 20 years, Rakers fought encouragement.” met. She cared deeply about children and became principals formed a strong bond leukemia. Many had no idea. Even her Rakers was active physically, playing creating strong educational opportunities that has lasted for decades. They called friends rarely heard her mention it. And racquetball and golf and running for both students and teachers. themselves the Yah Yahs and spent many they didn’t ask. Arkley says, “No one marathons. She participated in community Rutledge says, “Lin’s light is a pretty good times together, maybe going to a spa would have known of her illness; she was work, through the Junior League of hard one to dim!” for a weekend, having dinner at someone’s always beautiful and vibrant.” The friends Springfi eld and as a deacon of First house, shopping, golfi ng etc. Former all knew she wanted to live a normal life Presbyterian Church. Cinda Ackerman Klickna was a teacher and Springfi eld District 186 superintendent, and didn’t want to dwell on the illness. To Rakers retired in 2002, along with union activist during the time Rakers was Diane Rutledge, says, “Lin was always the them, it was her choice if she wanted to many others in the Yah Yah group, and a principal and had the greatest respect for light in the room – effervescent and fun- bring it up. found a new interest. She became a her, as well as the other women quoted in loving.” Nancy Waters grew up in Taylorville painter, mainly in watercolors. She loved the story. In 2020 over 60 educators from The group not only spent many hours and lived only a block away from Lin. animals and often painted dogs and cats. the Springfi eld area died. Several of them together socially but also professionally, Their paths crossed once again when Her work was often exhibited in galleries had been Klickna’s teachers or colleagues. Lin attending conferences, helping each other Waters was teaching at Fairview and in Florida, where she and her husband, Rakers represents the incredible talents of so work on issues facing them in their roles as Rakers became the principal. Waters Dick, had moved. Turtles and lizards many educators who have served our area.

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 9 JEROME “JERRY” JACOBSON June 13, 1930-Aug. 21, 2020 Windmill tilter REMEMBERING | Bruce Rushton

Don’t do it, administrators warned. fan and equally long a lousy athlete, he wrote Anyone caught painting the chimney atop sports for the New York Herald Tribune while a Springfi eld High School, long a senior class student at City College of New York. He was tradition, would be expelled, the adults said drafted after graduation and went to Korea, as graduation neared for the Class of 1988. where he earned a Bronze Star in recognition of Shortly afterward, “88” showed up in white efforts writing for Army publications. paint on the chimney. Administrators hadn’t His Army stint over, Jacobson went back to bargained on Jerry Jacobson, whose daughter New York, landed a job in public relations and was a senior. And Jacobson knew a wrong when lunched with the likes of Liberace and Anne he saw one. Bancroft. Then he took a turn, enrolling in It was years before Jacobson ’fessed up, Columbia University to study anthropology, a telling his family how he had sauntered into fi eld that led him to Alaska and beyond.“We the school and made his way to the rooftop. He met in the anthropology department,” was pushing 60 at the time and so could not Doranne Jacobson says. “Anthropologists tend be expelled. For Jacobson, it was about school to marry one another. I saw a handsome guy spirit and sticking up for people and principles who was just back from Alaska – he’d been – he did that sort of thing a lot, and regardless trekking around the tundra, looking for stone of odds. tools. He was talking about being chased by a “The more hopeless the case, the more grizzly bear. That all seemed rather romantic. interested my dad got,” recalls Josh Jacobson, He was older. He looked at me. I looked at Jerry Jacobson’s son. him. And bingo.” Jerry Jacobson loved Springfi eld High The couple married in 1963, the same School and the school loved him back, with year as the march on Washington, where they students creating an emoji to honor a man who watched Martin Luther King, Jr. tell America became a constant at athletic events, leading that he had a dream. “I convinced him that cheers and making sure, always, to wear red India was a great place for anthropology,” and black. Uber was a godsend after bum knees Doranne Jacobson recalls. “He said, ‘No, I was forced him into a wheelchair – no longer did he about to take a job in Nebraska.’” have to pester his wife for rides to games. After landing in central India, Jacobson “There would be stuff to do, I didn’t have proved expert at dispatching rats, mice and time,” Doranne Jacobson, his widow, explains. snakes, mostly with traps and the latter by She found out what her husband had become spear. It was, his widow recalls, a point of pride when high schoolers in prom dresses descended – he kept count. “We had snakes in the garden Jerry Jacobson once trapped rodents in India. PHOTO COURTESY DORANNE JACOBSON. on him after spotting the couple on a down- and rats in the woodwork – it was their home, town street. “Here’s these gorgeous girls, all not ours,” Doranne Jacobson remembers. For saying ‘Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!’” Doranne Jacobson two years, the couple lived with no telephone, says. “I asked him, ‘Jerry, who are these girls?’ It electricity or running water in weather so hot destroy the old and irreplaceable. a cloth banner into the Springfi eld armory, was his own thing. He loved it.” they sometimes slept outside. There were water After retirement, Jacobson pushed to save, since closed, when George W. Bush, then Jacobson celebrated his 90th birthday in buffalo. Both he and she came down with some might say, darn near everything, from president, addressed a sympathetic crowd June via Zoom and serenaded by bagpipes. hepatitis: “It just ruins your life for six weeks,” remains of the 1908 race riot to overlooked shortly before the United States invaded His obituary described his death in August Doranne Jacobson says. “You adjust to where houses Abraham Lincoln might have seen. Iraq. Looking harmless, Jacobson was seated as unexpected and the cause as heart failure. you are. Jerry was always a good sport. Did he “I tried to encourage him to take a pass on up front. His wife, scheduled to fl y to India He liked puns and singing and dressing up in know how to curse? Absolutely.” quite a few,” Doranne Jacobson recollects. the next day, could not risk arrest, but she costumes and writing limericks and listening Jacobson became an anthropology professor “He really got interested in the whole historic watched from far away as her husband to NPR and sending letters to the editor. He at his alma mater after returning to New York, preservation thing, he really got fascinated: unfurled his anti-war banner from his coat fought to preserve things all over town – even but after nine years, money for education fell Springfi eld is still here, among all the other and shouted, “No war! No war! No war!” the Stratton building was lovely in his eyes. short, and he lacked tenure. He’d once done things that are going on in Springfi eld.” He was led away, but not jailed. He once rubbed shoulders with celebrities and research at Dickson Mounds, and so moved Not everything was saved: Jacobson “Of course I wanted him to do it – I dodged a grizzly bear. to the Midwest. After two years at the Illinois won a few and lost a few. Maybe the score wanted to do it, too,” Doranne Jacobson Born in the Bronx, Jacobson was 50 when State Museum, he got a job at the Illinois De- didn’t matter, much as he loved sports. says. “I guess I felt all the things you feel he arrived in Springfi eld to take a job at the partment of Transportation, where he worked Fourteen years after painting the Springfi eld when you see things that you can’t stop. Illinois State Museum in 1980. Long a sports to ensure that construction projects didn’t High School chimney, Jacobson smuggled “I was proud of him for doing it.”

10 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 CHARLES RICHARD HOOGLAND Nov. 17, 1930-June 25, 2020 A VHS visionary REMEMBERING | Bruce Rushton

Charles Hoogland was a video store pioneer, Hoogland, his son says, made it a point but wasn’t known for having a favorite movie. to arrange fi nancing with local banks when It probably would have been something opening stores. “He wanted to be part of the old – he liked John Wayne and Maureen community,” Keith Hoogland says. Employees O’Hara, says Keith Hoogland, Charles’ son. were supposed to greet customers by name. “The Quiet Man,” maybe, and not surprising, At one point, Family Video stores were giving given Hoogland’s penchant for doing business away 32,000 turkeys for Thanksgiving and the old-fashioned way. Christmas. There were food drives. Students Charles Hoogland, a Springfi eld High with A’s on their report cards got free movie School graduate, was a Yale man who rentals. Family Video didn’t charge rental fees served in the Navy and got married on the for children’s fl icks. Hoogland would scout Fourth of July. Inspiration struck in 1978, sites during drives between Springfi eld and a when Hoogland was nearly 50 and running home in Michigan, where he died years after Midstates Appliance and Supply Co., a moving from the capital city. wholesaler started by his father that he had “We wanted to be as big and as taken over after graduating from college in professional as Blockbuster, for example, but 1952. He’d gotten stuck with videotapes – no still feel like the local mom-and-pop store,” one wanted to buy a movie for $79.95 or Keith Hoogland says. “It’s really tough to thereabouts – and so he started The Video balance that. As we got bigger, that got harder. Movie Club of Springfi eld at 1022 E. Adams But that’s what Dad always wanted to be.” St., charging $25 for an annual membership Hoogland, his son says, didn’t falter at and $5 to rent a tape for three days. renting adult videos in a pre-internet age: Charles Hoogland built a video store empire. PHOTO COURTESY KEITH HOOGLAND. To the chagrin of movie studios that Go ahead, he decided, fi guring that the First fought the rise of video rentals all the way Amendment would prove out, and it did. “We to the U.S. Supreme Court, Hoogland and reverse and remand,” an appellate court wrote his ilk opened video stores throughout the in 2001, after a St. Clair County jury decided Video, the Hoogland family is perhaps best don’t tell anyone yet, because I need to tell Kay land. The Video Movie Club of Springfi eld that Family Video had violated obscenity known for the Hoogland Center for the Arts (his wife) what I’ve done,’” says Nanavati, who morphed into Family Video, which became standards by renting Where The Boys Aren’t on Sixth Street. Why did a man who favored pegs Kathleen Knox Hoogland, who survives one of the biggest players in a dog-eat- No. 7 and The Ultimate Pool Party No. 11 to John Wayne give money to a place best known her spouse, as more a fan of theater than her dog world of video rentals that blossomed an undercover Belleville cop in 1997. Family for plays and other theatrical productions? husband. during the 1980s and 1990s. Family Video, Video realized as much as 17 percent of its “That’s a damn good question,” his son Years later, when his family’s namesake fell Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video revenue by renting adult movies, according to says. “My dad, as always, made decisions on hard times, Hoogland helped again, calling were the big three. Hollywood Video went testimony from a company offi cial. very quickly. Dad really wasn’t an arts guy. on the well-heeled to contribute money so that out of business in 2010; Blockbuster closed “Dad never watched an adult movie in his He loved the idea. But he didn’t like to go to the arts center, which had a $27,000 monthly its last store in 2014. Family Video hangs on life,” Keith Hoogland says. “He thought that plays or opera or anything. But he believed in mortgage payment and faced closure in 2011, still, with a handful of stores left open and the people should have the right to watch what it. He wanted Springfi eld to have something could survive. He was 75, his son recalls, and family business diversifying into such areas as they wanted.” like that.” never before had picked up a phone to ask pizza and fi tness centers. The idea of free movies for A’s came from Grace Luttrell Nanavati, a former trustee for money. Four years later, the mortgage was Real estate always was core. Uncertain how his family – Hoogland paid his children $1 on the arts center board, recalls Hoogland retired. long the video rental business would be viable, for every A and charged $2 for every C. Glass being circumspect while she showed him To the end, Hoogland believed in his video Hoogland from the start avoided tenancy, spires outside stores were inspired by a bar around the downtown Masonic temple then empire, which has been hard hit by pandemic. buying property instead of renting store space. made of glass blocks at the family’s home. under transformation. He was no pushover. “Our company now is real estate,” Keith “The smartest thing he did was, we started “My dad was a really great marketer,” “I remember him saying, ‘This is in Hoogland says. “The video business is a minor buying our own real estate, and we paid it off Keith Hoogland says. “Most people think of direct confl ict with the business that I run,’” part of our business at this point – I don’t know in fi ve years,” says Keith Hoogland. marketing as advertising, putting something Nanavati says He had suggestions about the how much longer it will last. There’s no movies Forbes magazine two years ago estimated in a newspaper. What Dad thought of as fi nal product. “He’s walking through, he’s coming out.” the value of the company’s real estate at $750 marketing was deals to drive people in. That analyzing this and questioning that: He had But Hoogland in his latter days clung. “He’d million. Family Video also bought rights to was his genius, I think.” formidable questions,” Nanavati recalls. say, ‘Keith, you’re wrong – I think the video movies instead of splitting rental proceeds with As Hoogland’s fortune grew, he established There was no telling, but a couple days business is going to come back,’” the son says. studios. It cost a bit more on the front end, the Hoogland Family Foundation, a nonprofi t after the tour, Nanavati says that Hoogland “He knew it was going down, but he never but delivered in the end. Family Video once that has contributed to such places as called: The Hoogland family would give believed that it really would. Our last video store boasted 800 stores, mostly in the Midwest and Vanderbilt University, Stanford University and enough to get naming rights. “He was going might be gone the same year that he left us. And typically in smaller towns. the Springfi eld YMCA. Aside from Family to name the building and then he said ‘But that’s OK, when you think about it.”

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 11 MICHAEL BELLAMY PLOG May 30, 1944-Sept. 9, 2020 Guided by reason and kindness REMEMBERING | Martin Woulfe

Their first encounter was on a dance heart attack, we learned that new health floor during the 1970s; Michael was a restrictions created due to the pandemic Ph.D. student and Martha was a teacher. would derail that wish. There was evidently magic in the When the time arrived to scatter moment (he was, among other things, an some of his cremated remains on church accomplished magician), for in time they grounds, his daughter read an excerpt wed and built a marriage that lasted for from a church newsletter article he had 42 years … no small accomplishment. written a few years ago: “My body is When I first met Michael, I was made up of atoms created inside long- impressed by the grin on his face and ago exploded stars. Those heavy atoms, the strength of his grip. He had, as his as opposed to hydrogen and helium, family wrote, an infectious smile and traveled through space and got ‘caught’ he radiated good humor. He promptly in the birth of our solar system and the steered me towards the Rotary Club Earth. My body has temporary use of of Springfield and began to introduce these atoms; that stellar material that me to everyone. Michael obviously made me and made you. After I am relished that role as much as he enjoyed dead, that stellar material will continue; being around people. I joined Rotary will become the building blocks of other and made the occasional prayer or people. I see symbolic meaning in this presentation. Ever the encourager, he cycle of life experience. I understand would compliment me after each talk. how some people may see spiritual In due time, he also introduced me meaning; I do not. For me, there is no to several other groups, including the ethereal, otherworldly involvement. American Civil Liberties Union and There is no supernatural consciousness Planned Parenthood. of the material involved. But, the Each year, Michael would assume symbolism, for me, is a concrete the role of an auctioneer during the expression of our seventh principle. By congregation’s live auction, quick with mixing my ashes with soil of the planet, words and quite animated. Occasionally, we are showing respect and importance he preached from the pulpit, sharing of the web of nature, and demonstrating aspects of his faith with humor and we are a part of that web. All the other humility. I came to appreciate Michael’s six principles are abstractions. We can wisdom and his innate desire to point to examples of how we affi rm promote harmony, especially when he democracy, support equity, or encourage became president of Abraham Lincoln others (and ourselves) to grow. But the Unitarian Universalist Congregation. I physical process of mixing my ‘star- also came to appreciate his impressive stuff’ material with other stellar material collection of ties – business attire, on the planet is a tangible expression of gaudy Christmas spectacles and some my unity with the universe.” that subtly promoted his faith or causes When Michael died, a unique and he supported. After he died, Martha wonderful man ceased to be – but some invited me to choose a few for my own of the magic that he created lingers wardrobe. I have already worn several, yet, borne in the hearts of those who accompanied by feelings of gratitude and cherished him. loss. In April, both of us serendipitously Rev. Martin Woulfe has served the prepared papers articulating our Abraham Lincoln UU Congregation in respective end-of-life considerations; Springfield since 2003. He is married since it was mutually convenient, we to Angela Aznarte and they have one signed one another’s forms. Consistent daughter, Celeste, who is now a senior at with his values, Michael had originally Saint Louis University. Martin is one intended to donate his organs and tissue of 43 White Sox fans currently living in to benefit any person who was in need. Michael and Martha Plog with their granchildren Springfield. Not long after he died at home of a

12 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 JAMES HENRY KROHE Nov. 22, 1924-Oct. 8, 2020 A drummer who never missed a beat REMEMBERING | James Krohe Jr.

My father liked to tell this story. He was a professional musician, and a country band out of Ashland had hired him to play at that year’s Chandlerville Burgoo. “Just go down 78 to the end,” the leader told him. “You can’t miss it. If you do, you’re in the river.” When he met his new bandmates, he found that one of them was named Doc Holiday, another Jack Daniels and the third Bob White. “Maybe I should get a stage name too,” he joked later. “How about ‘Jimmy Crack Corn?’” Happily, he remained just Jim Krohe. He worked as a professional drummer in Springfi eld and mid-Illinois for some 75 years as a pro, playing in dozens of venues with bands working in nearly that many styles. For a freelancing musician with lots of energy and a family to feed, Springfi eld in those days was heaven. The town had a symphony, marching bands, dozens of night spots where people loved to dance and more than 80,000 people who liked to get married and dine to the sound of live music. Early in the 1950s and 60s, the local musicians’ union passed a rule that all the house bands playing in the clubs and taverns had to take one night off each Jim Krohe and the author, Christmas 1949. week, to give its members a little break. The sun set on those days in the 1960s. Over the years he made up what he couldn’t earn playing as a bookkeeper, leader and teacher, his soul was that of him for a ride – in a rowboat during one Mom had a lot of kids so he could always salesman, teacher and, briefl y, as a trucker an entertainer. It was no accident that of the fl oods Beardstown regularly suffered count on having an audience.) and he for a circus. For a while he commanded the young Krohe was nicknamed by an until they built the river wall. stayed with her through health problems, the Illinois National Guard band based in indulgent and prescient sister “Krup-y Jim indulged in three loves. One was money problems and problem problems Springfi eld. (He was a by-the-book soldier, Krohe,” after Gene Krupa, the most music. Another was sports. Among his kids until they were fi nally laid in a grave but it was not the Army’s book, and he fl amboyant of that generation’s big band and grandkids were varsity high school together after 74 years. eventually went AWOL from his military drummers. All of us children have a little and college athletes in fi ve sports. (Luck? He was the most indulgent of fathers in career.) Most evenings and weekends and of that part of him in them. In most Genes? Wishing really hard?) Their careers that he was proud of his kids just because holidays, however, found him somewhere families, the siblings give each other gifts in Little League and youth soccer gave him they were his kids, which spared us any behind a drum. at Christmas get-togethers; we give each chances to be the coach he always wanted expectations that we be successes in the Jim continued to fi nd work because he other straight lines. to be. Because his two younger sons in world’s terms too. No Father Knows Best was not only one of the best drummers He lived in Springfi eld for more than particular were good at what they did, his homilies, thank goodness, but a dozen in town but one of the most adaptable. I 70 years, but Beardstown was always his teams won often; he proudly displayed all assorted from Gold N Glo on Sunday assumed that a guy born to back big swing home. He returned to it often in stories. the kids’ trophies at home, in a room that mornings. What we learned from him we bands must have hated playing square (Spending time with Dad sometimes was came to look like a pawn shop. learned from his example, which was to dances but he later described working like living Groundhog Day.) We learned And then there was Dot – Dorothy not worry about living a good life. Just live with the aforementioned country band as about how he used to deliver lunch to his Anderson, his Beardstown belle. Asked your own life. It might work out. “another opportunity for me to branch out big brother by riding up to him at the top about her, he once told me, with into different types of music . . . the fi rst of the local feed mill in a bucket on the characteristic understatement, “There was The author’s website, The Corn Latitudes, time I ever played with a steel guitar or a lift belt, how he and his buddies surfed just something about her.” Apparently. contains all his Illinois-related work, ‘hoedown’ fi ddle.” the wakes of the river tows and how his They made six children (He loved to tell including articles and columns from IT. You While a fi ne drummer, arranger, grandpa stopped by the front porch to take jokes, and I’d long suspected that he and will fi nd it at www.jameskrohejr.com.

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 13 LOUIS SHAVER MYERS Sept. 15, 1931-Sept. 1, 2020 ARNOLD ALLEN STERN Oct. 8, 1929-Sept. 5, 2020 Serving and improving Springfi eld’s business community REMEMBERING | Catherine O’Connor

Springfi eld lost two community-minded entrepreneurial giants, Louis Myers and Arnold Stern, within the fi rst week of September 2020. Though Stern and Myers were three years apart in age, they were lifelong friends who had much in common, beginning with primary education at Butler Grade School, followed by graduation from Springfi eld High School, according to Myers’ son, Steve. Neighbors for more than 50 years in Springfi eld’s west-side Wildwood subdivision, both the Stern and Myers families traced their immigrant roots back to Europe, with Myers’ ancestors arriving in Springfi eld in 1865 and the Sterns in 1902. Both men served in the military after college, and later became fi rmly established in their families’ multi- generational companies, which have been a part of Springfi eld’s economy for decades. In 1951, Stern graduated from the University of Missouri where met his future wife, Doris Pressman. Shortly after graduation, the newlyweds headed to the Louis Shaver Myers, left, and Arnold Allen Stern. Panama Canal Zone, where their son was born while Arnold was serving as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force. In 1953, the couple set up residence in family’s furniture business, which had that he brought to the Myers Brothers his grandchildren. He and his wife, June, the Pasfi eld Place Apartments, where operated since the 1930s in the thriving Department Store in downtown. According were members of First United Methodist they made many lifelong friends, before downtown. In 1971, Stern’s Carriage to son Steve Myers, “We always had the Church for nearly 60 years. They enjoyed building their home in Leland Grove. House opened at 2700 W. Monroe and best display windows in Springfi eld, because spending winters in Mexico and summers in Long Beach State University in Stern’s Furniture later moved to a west- our window dressers were also trained at a restored caboose on their farm outside of California is where Lou Myers fi rst met side location as well. Macy’s.” Springfi eld, sharing their love of hard work fellow central Illinoisan Dorothy “June” Through it all, community service As with the Sterns, real estate property and sweet corn with family and friends. Dunseth, who would become his wife in and civic philanthropy were priorities management and development became part According to son Steve, his father is 1958. Back in Springfi eld during college for Stern, who served as board president and parcel of the Myers family’s growing credited with the founding of Springfi eld’s break, the two had become reacquainted of Springfi eld’s First Federal Savings & business as Springfi eld evolved into the next Boys and Girls Club and the Sangamon with a fi rst date at Moonlight Gardens, a Loan, Greater Springfi eld Chamber of century. County Crime Stoppers organization. popular spot at the soon-to-be developed Commerce, Goodwill Industries and Known as Pop Pop, Stern loved and “He believed in service to the corner of Wabash and Chatham Roads. other charities. Stern was known for being treasured his son, two daughters and community and philanthropy, and now it’s Myers graduated cum laude from the the fi rst Jewish president of the Sangamo grandchildren. He kept a rigorous schedule my turn,” said Steve. University of Miami in 1953. After Club, while his wife, Doris, was the fi rst of daily lunches and dinners with his Catherine O’Connor draws on a background completing offi cer candidate school in Jewish member of Springfi eld Junior friends. Those dates, which were considered of more than three decades working in Rhode Island, he was assigned to the League. by him to be “sacred appointments,” were Illinois government and community U.S. Naval Station in Japan, where he Myers also joined his father and so well-known to his family and friends that organizations, sharing expertise in historic served until 1956, achieving the title of brothers in the family business located they would know with whom and at which preservation and the environment to tell Lieutenant, and remaining in the Naval in downtown Springfi eld. Early in his restaurant Stern would be, based on the day stores of those whose contributions enrich Reserve until 1975. career, Myers spent 18 months working of the week. our social and cultural understanding in After returning to Springfi eld, Stern for Macy’s Department Store in New York Myers, the father of two sons and one sometimes overlooked and unexpected ways. joined his father and brothers in the City, which was an invaluable experience daughter, was affectionately called Par by

14 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 ALEX MCCRAY Oct. 3, 1997-Jan. 4, 2020 A fi ghter for transgender inclusion REMEMBERING | Rachel Otwell

At 19 years of age, Alex McCray stood forgot a joke,” said Yohnka. before a sold-out crowd gathered at a McCray died by suicide at the begin- Hilton hotel in Chicago on March 17, ning of 2020. He had been open about his 2017. The audience was there to support mental health challenges and had sought the American Civil Liberties Union of a number of various treatments. He was Illinois. McCray was there to receive an pursuing a degree in social work at Font- award. He gave a speech about his activism bonne University in St. Louis at the time in a rural downstate town. It was because of his death. He was 22 years old. Those of McCray that the Williamsville-Sherman who knew him said McCray walked a path public school district adopted a policy to destined for helping others. In addition better include transgender students. The to his advocacy, he was a certifi ed nursing battle for that policy had begun over the assistant. “There’s no doubt that he would question of where McCray, who was trans- have worked with people and helped gender, should use the bathroom. people and been a resource, especially for Offi cials had offered a separate, one- kids in need,” said Yohnka. stall bathroom at Williamsville High Jordee Yanez was working for the School. The facility was a far walk from his Illinois Safe Schools Alliance when he classes and it was rundown. “I met with met McCray. Yanez served as a support school offi cials a handful of times, asking person for McCray when he was still in to begin using the boys’ restroom.” That high school and the two formed a lasting request was not initially met with success. friendship. Yanez remembers McCray as “There were days when I felt hopeless a talented artist who had a number of tat- and alone. It felt like I would never be toos which he designed himself. He loved recognized as my authentic self,” McCray Robin Williams. He was stylish, with his told the crowd. own brand of swagger. “He just knew how ACLU of Illinois helped McCray to dress,” said Yanez. An introvert, McCray McCray won the ACLU's John R. Hammell Award in 2017. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER C. NESEMAN / ACLU OF ILLINOIS launch an Illinois Department of Human had a love for animals. Yanez described Rights complaint that led to a settlement McCray as sarcastic and independent. with the district. The resulting policy in And he remembers McCray being out- 2016 became a model for other schools. and-proud, even though he could pass as Tonia Faloon-Sullivan is a social stud- the hallways. Not only did it state students could use cisgender (a person whose gender identity ies teacher at Williamsville High School And the elderly woman at the nursing the bathroom that refl ected their gender, is the same as the sex they were assigned who met McCray when he was a junior. home had told him that he looked like regardless of the sex they were assigned at at birth.) McCray was open to speaking She said he will have a lasting effect on the young man whose photo was in the birth, but also that school support should publicly about his experience if he thought the school. “Because Alex was one of the paper. McCray told her that was, in fact, be in place for transgender students. it could help others. When people asked fi rst students to openly transition, and him. “In a small and warm voice that McCray had been nervous before ad- inappropriate questions, he handled them then was the fi rst student to fi ght for I will never forget, she looked up and dressing the audience on that day in 2017 with grace. “Even though he was always the right to use the boys’ bathroom, he said, ‘You are so brave,’” McCray told in Chicago. He had told Ed Yohnka up nervous and said he hated public speaking, paved the way for other students,” she the crowd. “The world is getting better. until the fi nal moments before the speech he was a great public speaker,” said Yanez. said. “We’ve had trans students since People’s minds are changing. And people that he was “not committed” to giving it. Owen Daniel-McCarter was also work- then who are able to benefi t from the are becoming more accepting of those of It was his way of joking away the unease. ing for the alliance when he met McCray normalization that Alex helped to cre- us who are transgender.” Yohnka, director of communications when he was 17 years old. “He was such a ate.” “To all of my transgender brothers and and public policy for ACLU of Illinois, good self-advocate,” said Daniel-McCarter. ACLU of Illinois created a scholarship sisters, be brave and be fi erce,” McCray grew close with McCray during their battle “He seemed like an old soul.” Daniel- in McCray’s honor after his death. The said. Those who honor the legacy he for trans inclusion in rural Illinois and McCarter had traveled from Chicago to purpose is for high school and college created during his short life know that he beyond. After a day of press interviews meet McCray, who made sure they went to students to undergo advocacy training. was. in Springfi eld, a beautiful rendering of a restaurant in the Williamsville area where McCray wrapped up his speech at the McCray and Yohnka standing together they could feel safe. Daniel-McCarter re- organization’s banquet in 2017 with a The Trans Lifeline is a 24/7 hotline staffed showed up at his offi ce. McCray had membered thinking, “I can’t imagine what story about one of his favorite residents at by transgender people to serve transgender drawn it in pencil. An American fl ag was this has been like for him” – especially the nursing home where he worked while people in crisis, whether they are struggling pictured behind them. In Yohnka’s hand, given the limited amount of support Mc- in high school. Once the newspaper had with their identity or considering self-harm. McCray had drawn a magic wand. The Cray had before out-of-town advocates got gotten ahold of the story about his fi ght The number is 877-565-8860. More re- wand was from an inside joke Yohnka involved. In 2016, McCray won an award over bathroom access, he was worried sources for those in the LGBTQ community had shared with McCray during a break from the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance as how locals might react. As it turned out, and otherwise who are looking for a support in their meetings with media. “He never activist of the year. students and teachers high-fi ved him in can be found at: tinyurl.com/y3g46l42

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 15 MICHAEL PATRICK MANNING July 26, 1947-Nov. 17, 2020 “People would stop him on the street” REMEMBERING | Bruce Rushton

Once one of Springfi eld’s most popular who became Manning’s friend after artists, Michael Manning created an becoming his landlord, says that he once untold number of paintings. talked about crawling into an empty His work is displayed in banks, law 55-gallon drum at the edge of an airfi eld offi ces, living rooms and restaurants to escape artillery. “He was in the middle throughout the city. He also created less- of plenty of combat,” Paul says. “Lots of popular portraits of former Gov. Jim Edgar bullets going over his head.” and former U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Manning returned from war with “People would stop him on the street psychological issues that included post- constantly and ask him to do a piece,” traumatic stress disorder and bipolar recalls John Paul, owner of Prairie disorder. He drank and drugged to excess. Archives, who once rented studio space to He was hospitalized. He pushed on. “He Manning. “Five hundred dollars was the was very functional – even when he was usual price, I think. I doubt he got much dysfunctional, he was functional,” Darling more than that.” says. Artistically, Manning peaked during the Manning was elected student body 1990s and early 2000s. He was Stan Lee, president while at Southern Illinois Grant Wood and Colin Campbell Cooper University-Edwardsville, and he ran for rolled into one, and on acid – he called it state senate in 1981. With a degree in “cartoonorealism.” journalism, Manning came to Springfi eld Mike Manning was once a downtown fi xture and one of the city's best-known artists. “I started drawing pictures the way I in 1985 and became a spokesman for the PHOTO COURTESY CAITLIN DARLING. saw the world and not copying anyone Illinois State Museum, Department of else’s stuff,” Manning told Illinois Times in Professional Regulation and other state 2003. He would talk to anyone, anywhere agencies. He went through two divorces. Manning asked to rent studio space on MacArthur Boulevard, reading and – kids in grocery stores, strangers in Manning was laid off shortly after Edgar not long after Paul bought the Prairie chatting with people. “He always said, restaurants, passersby when he set up his took offi ce in 1991, and the governor Archives building in 1992. “I didn’t know ‘I’m a good friend with this guy and easel outside. became a target. A painting of Edgar in anything about him whatsoever,” Paul a good friend with that person,’” Paul “How do you like being on the jury?” dominatrix garb prompted a 1994 visit says. Manning wasn’t much at business recalls. “Mike considered anyone he got Manning asked a juror during a lunch to Manning’s studio by the governor’s and didn’t prosper despite a market for to see or talk to for 15 minutes, he was break when he spotted her near the Old security detail. his work. Paul says that he stopped being their very best friend.” State Capitol during a federal corruption He had a fondness for pastels. “The a landlord about a decade ago, after Recent years saw Manning’s studio fall trial that touched on Edgar, according beauty of the pastels is the best reliever of discovering that Manning was paying into disrepair. He had car accidents. He to a 1997 State Journal-Register story. stress,” Manning told the SJ-R in 2002. for studio space elsewhere: Why pay for wasn’t painting, but thought he was: See, At the time, Manning was painting a Manning’s artistic career began, his two places, he asked the tenant who had he told his daughter last year as she showed picture of Edgar dressed in a tutu while daughter recalls, after he and a girlfriend become his friend. There were occasional off a half-fi nished artwork he said he was piloting a unicycle on a tightrope above established a resume-writing service in short-term loans. “For most of his creative working on. He’d already painted in a alligators – he told the juror, who reported downtown Springfi eld. Manning had career, he was barely ahead of the curve, in completion date: 2016. the encounter to the judge, to avert her taken a few art lessons at Benedictine a sense, barely able to survive,” Paul says. Doctors diagnosed dementia in the eyes, according to the newspaper report. University, Darling says, and had gotten As a painter, Manning would take fall of 2019. Manning lasted 10 days at a Nothing but small talk, Manning said, and tips from the late George Colin, a some direction, but only some. “You can’t Springfi eld retirement center. After falling the trial proceeded. Salisbury folk artist. The resume-writing control him, you can’t tell him what to four times in 10 days, he went to a Veterans Raised in Dupo, near East St. Louis, business proved slow, and Manning started do,” says Tony Leone, owner of Pasfi eld Administration facility in Danville nearly Manning’s father was an abusive alcoholic drawing at work. “At some point, someone House, who commissioned a painting of a year ago. They kept COVID out of his who had spent time as a prisoner of war came in and wanted to buy one,” Darling the bed-and-breakfast in 2003. Abiding by ward until October. When Manning fell after the Japanese captured Wake Island, says. instructions, Manning depicted woodwork ill, rules were bent so Darling could see her says Caitlin Darling, Manning’s daughter. Manning had varied tastes and wide beneath the home’s porch. “It’s really cool,” dad. “When I went in there, his oxygen Manning was 17 and so needed parental interests. He knew the words to Jim Croce Leone says. “I think I paid $1,000. I didn’t level rebounded and he said, ‘How are permission when he decided to enlist in songs. “He loved to read – he truly is one argue.” Manning refused a plea to erase a you?’” Darling recalls. “It was so Mike the Marines. “They were kind of like, of the smartest people I’ve ever known,” wheelbarrow depicted in the yard, Leone Manning.” ‘Good luck’ – his dad was pissed about it, his daughter says. “He read book upon recalls, and became upset when his painting He died shortly afterward from as I understand,” Darling says. book upon book. He could tell you about was displayed on the second fl oor of Pasfi eld complications of COVID-19. Nurses, After one tour in Vietnam, Manning science and art and music – any movie. House instead of the fi rst. Darling said, cried when she retrieved her went back and never was the same. Duties … He would listen to Vivaldi and then Until last year, Manning lived on father’s belongings. included loading bombs and dropping turn on hard rock. When he was older, he State Street and had a studio on English “There was someone holding him at fl ares from planes in combat zones. Paul, would listen to rap.” Avenue. He spent days at Caribou Coffee the end so he wasn’t by himself.”

16 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 DANYEL ANN “DEE” (WATTERS) PITTS Aug. 30, 1975-Jan. 22, 2020 JOYEL ROSE “JOY” WATTERS-HALL Aug. 30, 1975-April 3, 2020 Always be kind REMEMBERING | Michelle Ownbey

Danyel Pitts never had biological children, but By 2013, the couple had plans to be married. plenty of people called her Mom. From her Calvin’s mother died in April of that year and stepchildren to nieces and nephews to the high Danyel’s mother was diagnosed with cancer the school girls she coached in track, many young same month. Realizing how quickly life could people relied on Momma Dee for guidance, change, the couple decided to move up their advice and unconditional love. wedding date. Following a marriage ceremony Danyel grew up in Springfi eld with her in their pastor's offi ce on May 15, they later had twin sister, Joyel. Danyel was older by only fi ve a formal wedding at Abundant Faith Christian minutes, but throughout their lives she fulfi lled Center on Oct. 5. the role of older sister and looked after Joy. Around that time, the couple began to In college, she cooked for friends in the look into a new program in the Enos Park dorm and was known for taking care of others. neighborhood that allowed urban pioneers “She had a more nurturing relationship even to purchase distressed houses at nominal with friends her own age,” said Tiff any Williams, cost, on the condition that the houses were who met Danyel their freshman year when they renovated and owner-occupied. Given Calvin’s both attended Eastern Illinois University on a professional background and experience running track scholarship. “She was always somebody a construction training program, it seemed like you could trust.” a natural fi t, and he decided to renovate a house Danyel and Williams quickly became close, as a wedding present for Danyel. Renovations and Williams admired Danyel’s positive spirit, on the house on North Fifth Street were which stayed consistent whether they won completed shortly before the couple’s second or lost a meet. Th e two friends joined Sigma wedding ceremony, and both Calvin and Danyel Gamma Rho their sophomore year. “Th e 10 of became active in the Enos Park Neighborhood us who joined at the same time have been close Improvement Association. for almost 25 years now,” said Williams. “Danyel Th en in February 2017, Danyel noticed a was always there for milestone moments – we lump in her left breast. She had gotten a good Danyel, left, and Joyel were in each other’s weddings, vacationed report at her annual mammogram just two together, celebrated birthdays.” months earlier, but decided to get it checked After college, Danyel moved to North out. Genetic testing showed she was carrying the could give God praise and have an amazing raise awareness of breast cancer and helped Carolina, returning to Springfi eld in 2010 BRCA2 gene, resulting in a type of breast cancer attitude with her situation, certainly my little fundraise for other cancer patients. when her fi rst marriage ended. She and Joy were known as triple-negative, a rare but aggressive problems were small in comparison.” “When she was going through diff erent invited to a cookout on their birthday and it was form of cancer. At the end of 2017, Danyel got the news treatments, we knew we were fi ghting a there she met Calvin Pitts, who was also recently Danyel was 41 years old at the time of her she had been hoping to hear. Th e doctors said battle,” said Calvin. “But we didn’t lose divorced. Th ey hit it off , and the following week, diagnosis, a lifelong athlete with no known she was cancer-free. Th e relief was short-lived. anything. It didn’t cause us not to go on Calvin called and invited her out to dinner. health issues or risk factors for cancer. Instead In January 2018, she was told the cancer had vacation, not dance, sing or laugh.” Th eir second date was Danyel’s idea. of asking “Why me?” Danyel sent this message returned and more surgeries, chemotherapy and Even during the three years that her As Calvin recalls, “She called me up and to her friends to share the news of her diagnosis: radiation followed over the next two years as the physical strength was failing, Danyel said, ‘Are you watching the game? I’ll come over “My results came back cancer. I meet with my cancer spread throughout her body. remained as vibrant as ever. Watching her and watch it with you.’ I said, ‘Sure,’ but I was surgeon Friday for consultation. I thank God in Despite the disappointing news, Danyel die taught a lot of people what it means to actually with some other people; I had to hang advance and give Him all the glory as He heals was not dismayed. She said, “I am so blessed to really be alive. up and fi nd out what game she was talking my body! Besides, he’s bigger than the universe have a relationship with God. No matter what is Indeed, Danyel told her family and about.” Danyel came over and they watched the or any problem we face.” going on in my life, joy will remain in my heart! friends she was not afraid to die. On Jan. 22, game together in the garage. “I don’t remember She had a double mastectomy, then began Nothing will or can take my joy away. Th ere are she transitioned to her eternal home. Her what game it was. I don’t think I watched it very chemotherapy. Her mother died, with Danyel days I feel like I’m pushing a mountain, but I twin sister, Joy, followed on April 3 – some much,” said Calvin. serving as the primary caretaker during the fi nal just keep pushing on!” say she died of a broken heart. A short time later, Danyel told Calvin that months of her life. Her beloved dog, Diamond, When she had a break between treatments, Danyel is most remembered for her she was not interested in getting involved in had to be put down. She had reconstructive she and Calvin traveled the country visiting kindness to others, and Calvin said one of another relationship unless it was with a man breast surgery, then a hysterectomy. family and friends, then took a dream trip her favorite sayings was, “Be kind.” who put God fi rst in his life. “Tears filled my Th rough it all, Danyel kept smiling. Jerry to Hawaii just a few months before she eyes when she said that,” said Calvin. “I had just Doss, pastor of Abundant Faith Christian died. She continued to volunteer as a track Michelle Ownbey lives in the Enos Park gotten out of a bad relationship too, and I felt Center, said Danyel “impacted and infl uenced coach at Southeast High School and with neighborhood and was one of many people the same way about fi nding someone who put me in a powerful way. If I was having a her church and other organizations that were whose life was changed by getting to know God fi rst.” challenging day, I would think about her. If she meaningful to her. She spoke at events to Danyel.

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 17 18 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 LEROY JORDAN Dec. 21, 1941-Sept. 5, 2020 Community leader and “relentless” social justice activist REMEMBERING | Rachel Otwell

Leroy Jordan’s mother worked in school caf- eterias and his father worked for the railroad. While he didn’t follow either of their paths directly, both schools and railroads would become themes in his life. Jordan was born in Murphysboro. A talented athlete, he was inducted into his high school’s football hall of fame. Jordan attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where Black men were being recruited for a program to train them to be teachers. Jordan was the fi rst Black male elementary classroom teacher in District 186. (A Black male physical education teacher was hired a short time before him.) He taught at Iles Elementary in Springfi eld from 1965 until 1969. Jordan served as a District 186 school board member from 1976 until 1982. He was the second Black person to do so. He served multiple terms as school board president. As a member of District 186 staff, he was pro- moted to assistant superintendent for research, assessment and development in the ’90s. After the district faced a lawsuit alleging Leroy Jordan sits with state Sen. Andy Manar during a committee meeting at the Capitol. CREDIT: COURTESY OF SHELLY HEIDEMAN segregation, a judge ruled in 1976 that steps be taken to fi x discriminatory practices. A consent decree called for the hiring of more Black teachers and a new bus system was cre- “He was a big proponent of giving back where he advocated for his community, a In 2015 – when promises made by local ated to diversify the racial makeup of schools. to the community. It was an expectation of majority Black area. If he saw a problem that leaders who had signed the community bene- “He was instrumental in working with the bus all of us who worked with him that we too needed a solution, even down to the streets fi ts agreement were not kept – Jordan worked company to make sure that happened equita- would be on a board, or be in a project, or do needing cleaned, Jordan would be on top of with state Sen. Andy Manar on legislation bly,” said Jordan’s wife, Johnetta. Johnetta said something with the community in terms of it, said his family. that created the Springfi eld High-Speed Rail before arriving in Springfi eld the couple lived social justice,” she said. “Everything was about Much of that energy was channeled into Oversight Commission. That was the same in Hopkins Park, an impoverished community family and giving back to the community.” the Faith Coalition for the Common Good, year Jordan suffered a stroke, after which near Kankakee. “That increased his interest in Jordan was surrounded by female energy an interfaith social justice advocacy organiza- he worked hard on his recovery. Daughter kids, because the kids there needed a lot.” at home, where he had four daughters. “He tion based on the east side. After offi cials an- Jennifer Jordan said one day she picked her In between his positions with District loved it, he was spoiled,” said daughter Laura nounced the Springfi eld Rail Improvements father up from the hospital and took him 186, Jordan served two decades at Sangamon Jordan, who teaches at Graham Elementary. Project, Jordan helped craft a community directly to the Capitol for a hearing. State University, now University of Illinois She said children tend to gravitate toward her, benefi ts agreement meant to ensure the Daughter Loralean Jordan said his “re- Springfi eld, beginning in 1972. He was the as they did toward her father. project would not further the harmful effects lentlessness to fi ght for things that are right only SSU African American academic dean. Jordan had two grandsons he in turn of segregation and blight. and just” guides her. When the pandemic He later became Assistant Vice President for spoiled with fi shing trips and sweets. He was Jordan also advocated for education about began, he spearheaded Zoom family calls Academic Affairs. UIS has created the Leroy heavily involved in his family’s sports endeav- the 1908 Race Riot. He attended numerous and had a standing virtual breakfast date Jordan Social Justice Scholarship in his honor. ors. His grandson, Christian Jordan, played meetings with the Federal Rail Administra- with Jennifer’s son, Levi, his youngest Jan Droegkamp was interviewing for a soccer and his grandfather was the team’s big- tion after remains of Black-owned homes grandchild. Jennifer said her father was sure position at SSU when she fi rst met Jordan. gest cheerleader. “He defi nitely tried to make that white mobs had burned down were of his own worth, and the worthiness of She had an infant at the time, whom she had every game, every practice if he could,” said found during a project to consolidate rail others. taken with her. Jordan didn’t bat an eye. He Christian. “It wasn’t just that he was there for traffi c. “I think that’s how he showed up in the scooped the baby up. “I thought, oh! My boss me … he cheered for everybody.” Shelly Heideman is executive director of world, always assuming that he had the – the dean of my college – is walking my little Jordan could handily balance multiple the Faith Coalition for the Common Good. right to be there, the right to agitate for baby around, this looks like the best place to projects at a time. It would be nearly impos- Jordan led its rail task force. “Leroy was the the things that he thought his community work.” Jordan was a strong, inclusive leader sible to list every job title and affi liation he train pushing us through. He was the mover needed,” she said. “And I feel like we should who made a point of listening to his staff, said held. He was an instrumental part of the and shaker and he was always conscious of probably all do more of that – assume that Droegkamp. “I think everyone thought that Springfi eld Dominican Anti-Racism Team. the race issue,” she said. “He had such a pas- we’re on the right track and be aggressive they were his favorite.” And he was a proud resident of the east side sion for justice.” about trying to make a change.”

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 19 20 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 BARRY JOSEPH LOCHER Jan. 30, 1955-Nov. 10, 2020 “A players’ manager” REMEMBERING | Bruce Rushton

Barry Locher was plenty smart, but not buyouts and layoffs. Pink slips weren’t the smartest. He was funny, but not Barry’s thing. the funniest. He was one of the best Barry grew up in Roodhouse, where photojournalists in the state. Others, his father managed the local IGA store. also, took great pictures. He was an SJ-R lifer, landing summer Barry was genuine, and on that internships in the 1970s while studying point, he had no rival. He rose from journalism at the University of Missouri. photography intern to editor of the State Former sports editor Jim Ruppert, who Journal-Register, running the newsroom started at the newspaper about the same from 1999 until 2007. After his death time as Locher, recalls him drinking from cancer, his wife Debra says that beer and playing poker after deadline she received cards from people Barry with co-workers in a South State Street photographed years after he stopped house where a copy editor with poor taking pictures to become a boss. housekeeping skills lived. “It was a “He was just a down-to-earth person dump,” Ruppert recalls. “Barry was very who could relate to people with no effort single, and he had a really fast car. He’d at all, and that always showed up in the use it to get to assignments. He’d get pictures he ended up with,” says Rich speeding tickets – oh my god, he’d get Saal, former SJ-R photo editor. “People speeding tickets.” respond to the person who’s taking their He paid one in coins. “He had this picture – you can tell a person’s manner envelope that must have weighed 10 by the pictures they take.” pounds,” Ruppert says. He could be Photographers aren’t supposed to impish. A light in the SJ-R darkroom run newsrooms – editors should be was string activated – you knew just wordsmiths, not picture takers. But where to reach to tug the dangling line Barry was special. that switched the bulb on. It was Barry’s I was the last person Locher hired. idea to cut the string, an inch or so at He wasn’t supposed to do it – the State a time, until a fellow photographer, Journal-Register in 2006 had money alone in the dark, fi nally fi gured out that budgeted for a graphic artist, not a he’d been pranked. “It was harmless, writer, but a few days after lunch at but it was fun,” Saal says. “He didn’t Lime Street Café, he made me an offer take himself so seriously. He was just a I couldn’t refuse: You’ll have no beat or lovable character.” Before becoming editor of the paper, Locher was a photographer at the State Journal-Register. quota, and I promise I’ll never publish Locher gave photographers the a story until you tell me it’s ready. The space they needed. “It was done when money wasn’t bad, either. we decided it was done – it was done Less than two years later, he took a when we knew that we couldn’t get any called. I apparently had come off as Barry, who retired in 2016, missed parachute, one year after the paper was more out of it,” Saal remembers. Barry rude when asking why I couldn’t get what was gone and thought about sold to present owners who have suffered wasn’t a pushover. “He’d chew asses if he copies of search warrants. “We can’t have what might have been. Opportunities through fi nancial crisis along with the had to,” Ruppert says. But that didn’t this,” Barry explained. I’ll do better, he’d hoped for after departing the SJ-R rest of the American newspaper industry. happen often. I promised – did he say why we can’t didn’t materialize. The world had not as He once oversaw at least 50 employees “He knew how to get his way without get warrants? Barry paused, then said, much use as it should for someone who plus their egos, building and nurturing saying ‘Here’s who I am and you’re “No.” Months later, the story ran as listened and thought and told the truth a news operation that became a Pulitzer going to do it my way,’” Ruppert says. part of a series on hurdles in obtaining and laughed at himself and kept venison Prize fi nalist in 2003 for stories about “He just had a way of knowing how public records. Schmidt, who eventually sausage in the darkroom freezer and racism and immigration in Beardstown. to get along with people, and that was allowed me in his house for a Christmas ate chicken at the VFW and believed Barry envisioned and guided the project, really important in how he made his party, reversed course and made the in journalism and Springfi eld’s daily as bringing in Lynne Walker, a Spanish- way up the ladder. Sometimes, it’s hard records public. much as he believed that the sun would speaking writer who’d worked in Mexico to work with a guy you came up with After leaving the newspaper, Barry rise tomorrow. and California, to get to the core of who jumped over you. With him, it was got a job in public relations at Memorial There was insuffi cient market for a small Midwest town, whether good easy. In sports, we’d call him a players’ Medical Center, then became director of genuine – Barry, perhaps, had cornered or ugly. He did not want to preside as manager.” the Illinois Press Foundation, a nonprofi t it long ago. I never had a better friend. economic realities made that kind of Barry chewed me out once, but just arm of the Illinois Press Association, a work nearly impossible at papers the size barely. The late John Schmidt, then trade group. Both were good gigs but Contact Bruce Rushton at of the SJ-R, which have been hit hard by Sangamon County state’s attorney, had no comparison to running a newsroom. [email protected].

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 21 ROBERT VON COLLINS Aug. 1, 1965 – Sept. 5, 2020 Robert von Collin’s stature was tall and stately. “A walking encyclopedia,” is what Springfi eld High School colleague Irena Sorrels called Rob. “He knew the answer to every question,” she said. He also knew at least 6 languages. Rob was born in Carbondale, but moved to Sparta, Illinois, when he was adopted at the age of fi ve. In addition to smarts, Rob had physical prowess. He was an all-state high school basketball player, played college basketball for Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois and professional basketball. He offi ciated high school sports. About 12 years ago Rob decided to go to China to teach English. Rob did not speak Chinese, but that didn’t deter him. He learned it after he got there. In China, Rob met his wife and they had a beautiful baby daughter, Arlinda. After seven years in China, Rob settled in Springfi eld, where his mother and sister then lived. Rob worked as a language interpreter for the Springfi eld School District and the courts. He also served as mentor to many students. ESL Springfi eld High teacher Sorrels posted online that just before his death, they had messaged a zillion times per day about the start of remote learning. Later in life Rob learned his biological father was Jewish. He became very close to the Jewish faith. Rob and his daughter regularly attended services and holiday celebrations at Temple Israel, where he and Arlinda were beloved by all. After his divorce, Rob and his daughter were inseparable. “They had such a strong loving bond,” retired Rabbi Barry Marks wrote. Robert von Collins was a great athlete, scholar, humorist, linguist, musician and a great friend. He was a great father and a helping son. He died at age 55 of a heart attack

Submitted by his pastor, Ron Waltrip, and Ald. Sam Cahnman

THEODORE (TED) F. ZELINSKI Aug. 21, 1949 – Aug. 9, 2020 Have you ever met someone who embodies the best and loves life to its fullest? Who’s not afraid to take chances because it opens up opportunities for growth and learning? Well, that person is Ted Zelinski. Ted was extremely talented and always pursued excellence in everything he did, such as playing music, singing, cooking, writing, photogra- phy, teaching and participating in civil war reenactments. He was a positive person who worked tirelessly trying to help others pursue and achieve their own dreams. He showed perseverance and strength even when things became diffi cult. He would wake up daily and say, “The sun is shining, I’m alive and it’s a good day.” Then he’d smile and tell a corny joke. Ted knew no strangers because, in his many experiences, he was able to relate to others on their level. As a child he was taught that excellence should always be your goal regardless of how big or small the task. He loved people and they loved him. We will always remember his beautiful smile, the twinkle in his eyes and the corny jokes forever. Ted was my best friend and nothing was too much for him.

Submitted by his friend, Barbara Williams

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LINDA SUE ANDERS FRANK “BUZZ” U. BAPTIST DR. JOHN ERIC BLEYER BRYCE BROOKS April 4, 1959 – Nov. 28, 2020 Feb. 24, 1944 – Nov. 24, 2020 Jan. 31, 1959 – April 25, 2020 Sept. 2, 1981 – Mar. 20, 2020 In loving memory. She never Frank Baptist left this earth on his “The good physician treats Bryce Brooks passed away own terms and was well aware the disease; the great physi- took no for an answer and on the fi rst day of COVID that the corona virus was not his cian treats the patient who she pushed ahead when restrictions. friend. It’s ironic that his death has the disease.” He was born in others paused. But a kinder, was due to the virus since he was Being a doctor wasn’t Champaign, but was raised gentler woman you will never an advocate for wearing masks in just Eric’s job – a doctor in St. Louis and honored by meet. public and often told store clerks was also who he was as a it. He eventually became in Jacksonville-area businesses to person. His care touched established in Springfi eld Submitted by her put on their masks. generations of families, because he valued the granddaughter, Danielle Frank could often be found families who trusted him and Draper outdoors helping with area sports loved him as one their own. simplicity of this city. fi elds, restoring engines to show at the Prairieland Steam Show He was a mentor to many of us in the medical community He lived and breathed for his wife of 18 years and and mowing yards. He was known to just hop in the car for a quick and his legacy continues to infl uence many lives. His his children. He enjoyed family vacations the greatest. He road trip. When he had to stay in, he played cards with his friends or belief in kindness and goodwill continues to be carried hardly got on any rides, but the joy on his children’s faces watched one of his favorite John Wayne westerns on TV. His other forward within the community at large. was adequate for him. His whole motivation in life was favorite activity was bowling in bowling leagues and he was inducted More importantly Eric was a Christian, a husband, a family, faith and fi tness. When he wasn’t taking his children into the Jacksonville/Winchester United States Bowling Congress father and a friend. He will be greatly missed. Eric was on snack runs he was in the gym. He also loved his job as a Bowling Association Hall of Fame. always present in the moment and there for those of us personal driver where he met many amazing people along Frank was best known for his portrayal of Santa Claus during who needed support, whether it was a kind word, advice the way. Christmas, and his fi rst time portraying Santa was in his kindergarten or a witty perspective. His connection with God was his main focus. He read play. He ended up playing Santa for more than 50 years. Thank you, Dr. Bleyer, for your dedication. You lived a the Bible, listened to pastors, studied every day and always He was a huge fan of watching any sport his grandchildren life that will continue to touch many generations. gave God the glory. He also made sure to provide for the played and was also known to just start following area teams even if homeless, whether it was giving money or taking food to he did not know anyone on the team. Submitted by his colleague, Dr. Nicole Florence the shelter. Frank never met a stranger, had the biggest smile, loved to tell stories, liked to entertain and make others laugh and would give We love you Bryce. There is not a day that goes by someone in need anything he had. when we don’t miss you considerably. His life was full of friends and family, including his wife of 56 years, Barbara, his children, Brian Baptist (Jenny) and Brenda Baptist Submitted by this wife, Tahira Brooks Protz, and his grandchildren, Brandy Protz, Makenna Baptist, Daxton Baptist and the late Jenna Protz. Covid may have ended his life, but his spirit and memory will live on. His family and friends can’t wait to fi nally celebrate his life in 2021. Submitted by his daughter, Brenda Protz

RAYMOND S. CACHARES THOMAS CANAVAN JR. NANCY LANPHIER CHAPIN ROBERT “BOB” E. CHURCH Jan. 1, 1954 – May 14, 2020 March 29, 1926 – Jan. 11, 2020 April 19, 1938 - Aug. 7, 2020 Mar. 30, 1944 – Aug. 18, 2020 Let me introduce you to a My uncle, Thomas Canavan Our friend, colleague and Bob died at 76 years of age. man who made Springfi eld Jr., passed away at the age of former Abraham Lincoln Asso- He was from Springfi eld and exceptional, your neighbor 93. He was the last surviving ciation board member, Nancy loved life and people, and Ray Cachares. member of his Scottish family Lanphier Chapin, died at her most importantly, children. Ray came to Springfi eld that came to America. His rural home near Springfi eld. One of Bob’s favorite early in his career to take a father arrived in Springfi eld Nancy was a tireless times of the year was Christ- job in the City of Springfi eld in 1922 and his mother and advocate and leader for telling mas because he played Santa budget offi ce. While here he brothers, Bill and John, arrived the story of Abraham Lincoln Claus. He loved this time of was instrumental in starting in 1923. Tom was their fi rst and her beloved Sangamon year, but he most especially the United Cerebral Palsy child to be born in America. County. For many years, loved what this time of year service offi ce. He came up with the ideas for the Blue Chip He was the most selfl ess man I knew. He gave his best Nancy and her husband, Chick, could be seen at every Gala, Casino Night and the Pepsi-Cola Christmas Tree. He represented. He gave kids joy and hope and longed to see to his wife, Helen, and her three children. He was a quiet and historical event held in Springfi eld. Her fi nal contribution to smiles on their faces, as he felt privileged to be a piece of the went on to serve on the UCP National Board of Directors kind gentleman who liked good beer and, as I understand, he history was a gift to the University of Illinois Springfi eld that and in 1998 was given the President’s Award for his Christmas season magic in a Santa suit. was a happy and funny beer drinker. provided for the creation of the Sangamon Experience. distinguished service. He was the Greek who started the Bob was a small man with a big heart, and he showed He joined the U.S. Navy during WWII at age 18 and She loved her family, swimming every morning, riding St. Patrick’s Day Parade and one of the original organizers that to his community through his hard work and dedication. served in the Pacifi c Theater on a supply ship, the San Saba, of LincolnFest. her horses and tending to her vegetable garden. She did not He organized community events through the Rochester Lions PA 232. He served about two years and then went to work for He moved to Chicago and was appointed commis- hold back in telling what she thought, but her frankness was Club and Springfi eld Elks Club. Bob wrote yearly grants to the U.S. Postal Service for 36 years as a clerk. sioner of the Bureau of Streets and Sanitation and then welcome in preventing many a bad decision. host events for foster kids and the less privileged – always oversaw programming, staffi ng and operations for Navy When I was young, he would stop by our home after Hers was a life well lived. trying to give joy and smiles to children in any way he could. Pier. Ray moved back to Springfi eld and his last job was work on occasion to visit and give me and my siblings a big Bob was a real gem! If you were fortunate to know him, director of Business Services for the Secretary of State. hug. We were always happy to see him as we liked his big Submitted by Richard E. Hart, on behalf of For the People, a you also know he loved to laugh and tell stories, and he had Ray was the epitome of a raconteur and even when bear hugs of love. His parents died young at ages 52 and newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association an infectious smile. I remember the laughs and his smile and you heard his stories repeatedly, you always found your- 65, so we were his family reminder of the Canavan clan’s jolly spirit most of all. self wanting to hear them again. continuation of his family’s Scottish heritage. Bob loved being around people and we are certain he I was privileged to have spent the last 23 years with I miss my Uncle Tom and I am so very thankful that I was is telling stories and making them laugh and smile up in him traveling, entertaining and listening to all those sto- blessed to receive another wonderful uncle in my life. He was heaven. Bob will be greatly missed by family and friends, but ries. We were a great team and I will miss him – forever truly a gift to us all. he is truly remembered most especially at this time of year as miss him. Another good man from the Greatest Generation now our favorite Santa. Ray was a big man with a big heart and a big person- gone, but never forgotten. May he rest in peace with our Lord ality, and he made a big impact on so many people. We and Savior Jesus Christ. Submitted by his adopted and loving daughter and neighbor, were all the better for knowing him. Rest in Peace. Suzanne Moss Submitted by his niece, Diane Canavan Submitted by his husband, Richard Martineau

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Dr. ELVIN GLENN ZOOK JERRY (KRAJEC) FARLER JERRY GARVIN RENE HAZEL GUM March 21, 1937 – Nov. 24, 2020 Aug. 8, 1966 – Jan. 5, 2020 Dec. 18, 1943 – Jan. 11, 2020 Aug. 17, 1915 – June 18, 2020 Elvin Glenn Zook, M.D. was born While he hadn’t lived in Springfi eld My father, Jerry, gave his heart and My grandmother, who I af- on a farm in rural Indiana. He soul to his family, God and country. fectionately nicknamed Spunky was an amazing guy that lived an or Illinois for many years, Jerry He would give the shirt off his thirty years ago, died this summer amazing life. Farler left quite an impression here. just two months shy of her 105th He accepted an invitation He graduated from New back, if you asked him. birthday. Grandpa died in 1978, from Sharon Neher to a Sadie Berlin High School in 1984, and He volunteered many hours and she was also preceded by Hawkins dance at Manchester went on to graduate from college to the community through the her siblings, daughter and one College. They were later married with a communications degree. Men’s Club at St. Patrick’s Church. grandson. and would have celebrated their Anyone who knew Jerry would say Back when the Ethnic Festival was Spunky grew up on a farm 60th wedding anniversary this he probably didn’t need a degree thriving, you would see him driving near Tallula. She married Grandpa month. to communicate effectively, but his truck to and from the church in 1940, and they raised two El was interested in becoming a physician, although his college his love of radio and music lead him down that path. He worked at basement to the event all day with truckloads of food and the boys to children and farmed. chemistry professor tried to dissuade him, telling him the goal was local stations, namely WYMG and WFMB, and was on air with several help load and unload. He regularly volunteered to cook for any and Against Grandpa’s wishes, Spunky began working at Lincoln’s out of his reach. This lit a fi re under him that burned for the next 50 different names – Tony P, The Captain, Jerry Farler and Jerry Krajec. all fundraisers. Jerry never made small batches of anything – chili, New Salem State Historic Site in the early 1970s on the riverboat, Talisman. She loved meeting people from all over the world and years. He graduated from medical school in 1963, and by 1972 he He was also known as the caretaker for LINC and was the WFMB bear vegetable soup, fried fi sh, were a few of his favorites. worked there for over thirty years. was board-certifi ed in general surgery, thoracic and cardiac surgery in local parades. Jerry was the father of three girls and he taught them about Jerry was an avid Grateful Dead fan, and of all music in general, Spunky made the best pies and was an excellent cook, knitter and plastic surgery. hunting, fi shing and sports, but still he wanted that bonding, son time. and his love and knowledge of music showed every time he was on and seamstress. She rarely missed a ballgame or band concert or In 1973, he established the division of plastic surgery at SIU He volunteered as a seventh and eighth grade boy’s basketball coach the air. He was also a collector and enthusiast of VW buses, airplanes school musical, and with fi ve grandkids just a walk-between-the- School of Medicine in Springfi eld serving as professor and division at St. Patrick’s grade school during the 1970s and 80s. Many of those barns away, there were many events. and trains, a dog lover, member of the 12th man Seattle Seahawks chief for 33 years. In those years, his team trained 60 plastic surgery After Spunky had to move away from her beloved farm, I was club, a Dodgers fan and a travel enthusiast. boys he coached were still part of his life up until the day he died. Two residents (Zookies), many fellows in hand and microsurgery, and of them were his pallbearers – that is a tribute to the man he was. surprised when, during one of my fi rst visits to her new living facility, hundreds of grateful medical students. He served as a member of 33 After his time in radio, he worked at the Springfi eld airport for As the family grew and grandchildren came, Jerry would attend she told me she was living like a queen. Why, somebody else was medical organizations on local, state and national levels and taught as TWA and Ozark Airlines, later transferring to St. Louis. doing all her laundry, cooking and cleaning. And, her window faced all events in which the children were involved. He even attended a visiting professor at 61 different institutions. The college chemistry Jerry survived hemophilia and all it threw at him. He was a west across farmland toward the tree-lined river, and she loved to sporting events long after the grandchildren graduated school to professor would have been proud. great infl uence and inspiration to others who have the disease and see the crops go in and the crops come out, the wildlife and the El’s students would all agree that he never stopped learning eventually became an invaluable representative for hemophiliacs support other students and coaches. beautiful sunsets. and he never stopped teaching. He demanded excellence from his in his later years in his home state of Nevada and throughout the He also got into politics as a precinct committeeman. Jerry She always had a reason to be happy and that continued students, but provided them with all the motivation and encourage- southwestern U.S. volunteered to assist with campaigns, cooked for fundraisers and even when she had to transition to the nursing home. She had an ment they needed to achieve it. He is survived by his mother and father, a sister and a brother, walked the precinct to spread the word about candidates. infectious laugh and the most beautiful smile. She was kind and Elvin passed this motivation on to his three daughters Tara two nieces, and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and dear friends. The family always joked about how many people Jerry knew, unassuming and generous and radiated love for others and had a genuine love of life. (Bennett), Leigh (Krueger) and Nicole (Sommer). They each pursued His beloved Great Dane, King George, and Neapolitan Mastiff, Mabel, even when visiting San Antonio when one of the grandsons graduated also survive him. basic training, Jerry saw someone he knew! Like her son and daughter-in-law, six other grandchildren and careers in the medical fi eld with the same passion that he did. their spouses, thirteen great grandchildren and three great-great He loved hunting, conservation, books, travel, Bobby Knight-era He is deeply missed by family and friends alike throughout this My father was a great man. Although his visitation was to end at area and the world. Rock and roll heaven has to be a better place with grandchildren, I will always miss her. I’m so grateful for her love, her IU hoops and his grandchildren. 7 p.m., we were still greeting guests at 9 p.m. That shows how many lessons, her wisdom and for showing me how to live a long, full and you in it, brother. Elvin Zook was an amazing guy! lives he touched. happy life. Submitted by his sister, Loretta Mabie Submitted by his family Submitted by his daughter, Cheryl Garvin Submitted by her granddaughter, Angela Sue Gum-Miller

KAREN LOUISE HAMRICK JAIME KORNFELD MARVIN LAIRD MIDGE LANGFELDER March 5, 1944 – Dec. 16, 2019 Jan. 11, 1960 – June 2, 2020 Jan. 5, 1942 – May 18, 2020 Jan. 19, 1931 – Dec. 30, 2019 Karen was loved by all those who “Others think we have survived Marvin was born in Warren Many may remember Midge knew her. She was one of the most giving and loving people your leaving. But we haven’t, County, Illinois to Howard and as the wife of the late Mayor God placed on this earth. She was because each day you are still Lucille (Crocker) Laird. He and Ossie Langfelder or the mother known for giving gifts and cards to gone.” Marsha DeHeve were married in of thirteen children, including family, friends, acquaintances and Our beloved Jaime Francis 1965 and together they raised Springfi eld Mayor Jim Langfelder strangers. received a call on June 2 that her a family of three children, and and Sangamon County Recorder Born to Staff Sergeant Milton work here was done. She was a eventually welcomed eight Josh Langfelder. However, to those Hamrick and Bertha Hamrick, beautiful person who we feel led a grandchildren into the fold. who knew her best, she was blessed existence, and for this we Marvin fl at out loved people. she lost her father to war when dedicated to service, a passionate are grateful. He had a genuine interest in other she was only fi ve months old, but artist and the best Mom and Maw never let her circumstances affect how she faced the world. Having Jaime was the second of people, wanted to learn about six children born to Ralph and Carol Kornfeld. Our parents taught us them and wanted to make them laugh. He was social and engaging. Maw around. She also had a special way with words her family called never married, Karen shared a home with her brother, David. “Midge-isms.” Karen was defi ned by her faith and her unending love of God. that family was the most important thing, thus we have always been He was also a hard worker and he could do most anything, very close. much of it self-taught. He was tremendously generous with his time She met the love of her life, Ossie, while working for Kerasotes She was extremely active in her church, First Church of God, and Family Theatres. As a budding artist, she attended the College of St. rarely missed a Sunday. She taught Sunday school for kids and After our parents passed, Jaime, along with her husband Byron, and talents. Francis in Indiana and went to the Art Institute of Chicago for one year. adults over the years, served on numerous boards, was a church took over the role of matriarch/patriarch for our family gatherings. He loved his country and liked to discuss politics. He enjoyed elder and created and taught Children’s Church for 47 years. Her love Although they had family of their own, they still managed to host traveling and experiencing new things. However, his family and However, she chose love over career and married Ossie on June 14, of children impacted lives for years and into eternity. She enjoyed holidays and summer fun at their home. friends were what was most important to him and he valued the time 1952 at St. Joseph’s Church. singing – performing in cantatas as well as solos at church – with her After losing Byron, the love of her life since high school, she spent with them. Forty years later, Midge returned to college and graduated in beautiful voice. She shared her love with people from the congrega- decided to be joyful, living life to its fullest and loving with her whole Marvin had a long career as a certifi ed golf course superin- 1993 with an associate’s degree in art from Lincoln Land Community tion, her family, her friends, the waiters and waitresses at restaurants being. During her time here, she traveled to wonderful places, en- tendent at Lincoln Green and later the Edgewood Country Club. He College. She was also in the fi rst graduating class from the University and anyone else who crossed her path. joyed exercising, socializing, dancing, gardening, jewelry making and was a 50-year member of the National Golf Course Superintendents of Illinois Springfi eld in 1998, earning a bachelor’s degree in visual Karen loved spending time with family and friends, often over reading to her heart’s content. Music, laughter and love were guaran- Association. He also served in the National Guard and was a member arts. She was the fi rst recipient of the UIS Lifelong Learner Award and dinner or lunch. She and her best friend, Donna Blankenship, worked teed whenever you were in her presence. What brought her the most of the NRA. went on to teach art at St. Agnes from 2001 until 2009. She taught joy though were her children and grandchildren. She cherished her He died surrounded by the people who loved him. We were so together to throw the best baby and wedding showers. everyone that you are never too old to follow your passion. time with them and always looked forward to their visits. lucky to have him and we miss him terribly. She is truly missed by her brothers, Ernie and Dave, and her She lived a life of service as a dedicated member of Blessed sister Bertha, as well as all those who were blessed to know her. You never left her house hungry or lacking conversation. Her home, that she and Byron built, was her most cherished possession. Submitted by his sister-in-law, Diana Tull Sacrament Parish, a board member of the YWCA, founding board member of the Mini O’Beirne Crisis Nursery, a member of the Prairie Submitted by her cousins, Tom, Betty, Becky and Angie Gum It was her sanctuary and she diligently worked to take care of it for all to enjoy. She treated anyone she met as family and welcomed them Art Alliance, a strong supporter of Ursuline Academy, the Griffi n High into her home and life with open arms. Her smile lit up the room and School band and various organizations. her laugh was contagious. Her family remembers her love for traveling and making sure We cannot say enough about her and how much she will be her children saw every site and visited every museum possible while missed, but a little bit of her will always live on in each of us. visiting a city, sweeping the porch for hours, hosting Saturday chili nights, playing bridge, going to Broadway shows, listening to baseball Submitted by her sisters, Jennifer Kornfeld and Jill Pillsbury games on the radio and humming. Midge’s paintings were truly works of heArt, and her life was her masterpiece.

Submitted by her family

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ANNA BELL MURPHY LINDA MARIE PECORARO BARBARA ELIZABETH RAWE ADRON SANDERS April 5, 1923 – Sept. 20, 2020 Aug. 20, 1950 – May 28, 2020 Aug. 19, 1918 – June 29, 2020 May 24, 1941 – June 19, 2020 Anna Bell Murphy was simply the 2020 has been a devastating Barbara Rawe was born during This world truly lost an best grandma to me and my sisters, year for so many and our family the Spanish fl u pandemic and died amazing person this year. and for that, I am thankful. She was no exception – we lost our during the COVID-19 pandemic – Adron Sanders was one-of- took her role very seriously. I matriarch. Losing her was so sad she did not contract either illness. a-kind and the best father can’t remember a soccer game, and grievous that we choose to Growing up on a farm during and grandfather anyone could band and choir concert or piano focus on the wonderful things the Depression, she felt gratitude ask for. recital that she did not attend. about her. as she learned to “make do, He was a veteran who Our mom was so beautiful, She and our grandpa were major make it over or do without.” At had served in Vietnam and funny, an excellent cook, had a infl uences on our lives. She was 19 she married the boy next door, he had stories for days to tell. contagious laugh, a heart of gold became a farmwife and eventually our favorite babysitter, and she He was an avid ham radio and was very smart, but also the mother of 13 children. Faith in God, hard work, completing a job helped make sure we all developed into productive adults. operator and also enjoyed time spent with his grandkids. humble. She gave the warmest hugs and the best advice. Mom’s done well and a good education were the values she instilled in her Grandma was a child of the Depression and married at the I could go on for days about all the amazing things my strength was extraordinary. She battled COPD for many years, but children. Teaching by example, Barbara was a dedicated church and age of 20 to her life partner, Ernie Murphy, whom she had dated for rarely complained and she smiled through her pain. community volunteer. Today, Barbara would likely be a teacher or dad did, but it would never do him justice as to what he was fi ve years. The marriage lasted over 70 years until Ernie’s passing. Our mother was a rare fi nd of selfl essness, unconditional nurse, while also a homemaker. really about. They had two children, a son and a daughter, my mother. Her son love and kindness. She left a lasting impression on many families Her life saw amazing changes. In her childhood she had no Miss him so very much! passed away in 1976, which was devastating to my grandma. in the Springfi eld area as an in-home daycare provider for many plumbing, electricity, cars, refrigerators, telephones or televisions. However, she would often tell us about him to the point that we feel years, loving the children like her own. She was a devoted wife and Instead, she was familiar with using horses for farming, wood-burning Submitted by his daughter, Jenifer Sanders like we knew him personally, even though he passed before we effortlessly supported our father in every aspect of his career. When stoves, one-room schools and home births. She marveled at modern were born. Even though she suffered this loss, she was able to be it came to her fi ve kids, there was nothing she wouldn’t do for us. Ma conveniences – men on the moon and FaceTime with a grandson in the sweetest and kindest person to everyone. was always there to love and encourage us, she was our best friend, Africa. Still, she preferred to just listen to her radio for entertainment. During World War II, my grandma supported the war effort by she lifted us up when we were down or worried and always took the Family, neighbors and hay crews said her meals (pies!) were working in a factory, and she also worked at Illinois Bell Telephone time to listen. Ma made everything better, whatever it was, good or the best. Others’ birthdays were remembered with handwritten cards company once her children were in junior high school. She was bad. Mom was also the most loving Nana. She cherished and spoiled and letters. When her eyesight weakened, she dictated letters to her a 1950s housewife outside those two jobs, which was when she each of her grandkids and they adored spending with time their daughter, Alice, to mail. Hugs, smiles, prayers and encouragement became the world’s best cook! She was the type of person who sweet, silly, loving Nana. were offered daily to others. would look at you when you fi nished your third plate and say, Our mother passed at 8:08 p.m. on May 28, 2020 and at 8:08 Known and loved as a sister, grandma, cousin, aunt, neighbor, “Finished already? You didn’t eat too much!” p.m., throughout Illinois, beautiful double rainbows were spotted all friend and mentor, her proudest calling was the one we knew best Anna Murphy was a Cubs fan and proud Democrat who was over. That’s how amazing our Mom is – she wanted to let us know – mother. happy she lived long enough to vote for a woman and an African- she was OK and no longer in pain. American for president, something she didn’t think would happen Our hearts are broken, but Mom continues to send us some Submitted by her daughters, Carol Rawe Knisley-Bishop and Alice in her lifetime. unbelievable signs! Her beautiful legacy inspires us to keep living Rawe Lucchesi I think that both classy and sassy are the best ways to and make her proud. We were so blessed that God chose her to be describe and remember her. our mom.

Submitted by her grandson, Mike Anderson Lovingly submitted by her children Rosalie, Mary, Gina, Giacomo and Joseph, and husband Giacomo Sr.

DENNIS SHACKELFORD PAT STAFF ROMIE D. TURNER CONNIE VAN HOUTEN Nov. 4, 1958 – July 21, 2020 July 29, 1932 – June 10, 2020 Sept. 13, 1924 – Oct. 29, 2020 July 19, 1943 – Sept. 24, 2020 He was the man who brought Pat Staff loved children. She Romie D. Turner was born to the Our sweet Constance “Connie” Judy’s Hallmark to the community considered being a mother the union of Elvin Turner and Rosetta Van Houten left us suddenly this and operated it successfully for most important thing she could Barnes. year. While it is natural to be sad, 30 years. He was an incredible ever do, having two children with He graduated from Lovejoy to notice the loss of her love, her businessman who became an the love of her life, Floyd. She High School in 1942, and then energy and the empty chair at elected offi cial and left us at too the head of the table, it is also also wanted to teach children, attended Southern Illinois University. young an age. At the end of his freshman year, he necessary to celebrate her life. And so she waited until her daughter Dennis was born in Lafayette, received a draft notice and joined oh, what a life she lived! and son were in elementary Indiana, the son of George and the U.S. Army. Romie served from The second of seven children Betty Jo Shackelford. He attended school, and then, one class at a May 1943–1946 during WWII. He born in Springfi eld to Maxine and Rochester High School, Springfi eld time, completed her degree at earned several decorations and Vincent Kesegi, she grew up in a College in Illinois and received his undergraduate and graduate Greenville College. citations and his service afforded him the opportunity to see many loving home and took after her mom. They both lived for precious time degrees from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. When the family moved to Springfi eld in 1963, she applied parts of the world. with family, enjoying homemade meals or telling stories, laughing and He opened his fi rst Hallmark store in Charleston, Illinois, and for a teaching position. For the next 25 years, she primarily taught After his military service, he joined the United States Army making memories. was the youngest ever Hallmark franchisee at the time. However, fourth grade at Harvard Park Elementary School. Students have Records Center as an E-7 quality control technician in 1946 and As for family, Connie’s would not have been possible without Red. Dennis’s most important titles in life were husband to wife Judy for offered that she magically made each one of them feel special and remained there until his retirement in 1986. Connie married Norman “Red” Van Houten in 1963. They dedicated 57 36 years, Dad to Andrew, Amy, Lindsey and Emily, and Pappy and valued. She was one of those teachers who never had to raise her Romie married Bessie M. Welch and they had two daughters. wonderful years to each other and their family. The biggest testament Champ to his three grandchildren. voice to keep control in the classroom. They ended up not wanting Romie loved his family and looked forward to their Christmas Eve to their marriage is seen in their eight children – Kim, Leigh Anne, Dennis was a true “Ace,” as his brothers-in-law nicknamed to disappoint her, for they witnessed her standing for what was gathering each year. He enjoyed yard work, including planting trees Kandi, Kevin, Lyndee, Kammy, Laurie and Kacy. If the kids could be and fl owers, mowing or setting up for a barbeque. He enjoyed travels him. He was quick-witted and always had a story to share or fair, right, loving and helpful for their learning and the development involved in activities, she made it happen. She worked 40 hours a and comradery with Bessie’s Lincoln High School class of ‘46. He was some much-needed advice. His family will always remember his week and was called “the hub in the wheel” by one of her bosses of their character. At the end of the day every Friday, her students always excited to attend the Barnes family reunions and was blessed performances of “Let’s Stay Together.” because things just did not work without her. But if her kids had would vie for a place in line to get their special hug from Mrs. Staff. to have attended 25 of the 26 reunions. Romie was elated when he He was generous and quietly provided for and championed the practices, games or recitals, she was there. The love she offered to so many was deeply rooted in her faith. received an 89th birthday salutation from President Barack Obama. well-being of so many of those in his circle of family and friends. Many friends and family knew the power of her prayers fi rsthand. Romie moved to Springfi eld in 2008 to be closer to his family, Sundays were for faith and family. Vacations and shopping trips After retiring from Hallmark, Dennis began working for For 56 years she dedicated her time and service to Laurel United and began to experience health issues in 2014. Later his health were always an experience. Later an empty nest was hard for her, but Williamsville State Bank and Trust, and served on its board of Methodist Church. declined and he required skilled memory care. when grandkids came along, “Gaga” gave them all her love and directors. He remained invested in building up small businesses as attention. Joseph, Riley, Hannah, Aidan, Bryce, Nina, Dominick, Reagan, For the last nine years of her life, she lived with the Romie leaves to laugh, love and carry on his legacy his beloved an active member of the Taylorville, Decatur and Greater Springfi eld Carly, Halle, Emily, Leo, Grady and Demi were lucky to have her. repercussions of a severe stroke. Even as most of her words had daughter, Patrice D. Brooks, sibling Lorna M. Cason, grandchildren Chambers of Commerce. He was elected to the Lincoln Land Community Connie would want us to look back and smile – to remain been taken away, the same deep love fl owed forth from her, the Michelle (Vincent) Wright, Marcia (Antwan) Walker and Dana (Nathaniel) College Board in 2013, rising to chairman during his six-year term. Gurnsey, great grandchildren Nia M. Walker, Ivan D. Gurnsey, Iyla L. openhearted with a positive attitude. Her values, strength and love will He was also a Rochester Township Board trustee. same twinkle sparkled in her eyes, the same smile graced each live on in her family. We will miss her forever. person she saw. All her life, her smile offered a safe harbor to those Gurnsey and Reece V. Wright. Bessie and their daughter, Deborah, Throughout his career, Dennis received numerous awards and preceded him in death. who experienced it. developed countless friendships with coworkers and customers. He Romie always had a kind word, chuckle or wisdom to offer others. Submitted by her daughter, Lyndee Fein was a mentor to many and admired for staying true to his beliefs God used you mightily as an ambassador for love, my mother, He is deeply loved and will be missed by his family and friends. and principles. and I feel so honored to have been your daughter. Dennis’ positive impact on this community and remarkable Submitted by his granddaughter, Marcia Walker legacy is a true example of the saying, “It is not the years in your life, Submitted by her daughter, Coni Staff but the life in your years that count.”

Submitted by his family

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 25 26 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 MUSIC

James Armstrong performs virtually for First Night Springfi eld 2020.

Hello 2021, goodbye 2020 NOW PLAYING | Tom Irwin

Welcome to our annual Remembering issue year. For live, in-person music, the covered as we wrap up one year and move on to the and heated tent area in front of Buzz Bomb next. Perhaps the old adage that proclaims if Brewing Company and Elf Shelf Books you can’t say anything nice about someone – & Music, popularly known as the Adams or in this case, some year – don’t say anything Family Patio, has Frank Parker and Friends at all, should apply to 2020. But there are scheduled to play on New Year’s Eve. I can’t some good things if we look hard enough, help but believe this version of Frank’s long- I just don’t particularly want to right now. running Jambalaya Jam will be dependent Th at will be a good subject for refl ection in an on weather conditions, so please check upcoming Now Playing when we are playing ahead to see what’s happening. out again. Your safest and best bet for locally First, let’s remember the musicians we sponsored, online, live music experienced lost this past year, from the locally known to from the comfort of your couch would have the internationally famous and all those in to be First Night Springfi eld. Th e Springfi eld between. May they know peace in the valley Area Arts Council, now entering its 45th and their harps be always in tune or whatever year of existence in 2021, is responsible for the case may be for what goes on beyond this organizing and coordinating this special realm. Th e way this year has gone, who knows event that brings together top-notch local who else we will have lost just in the time this performers for our entertainment pleasure. goes to print and gets into your hands. In 2020, the year that is determined to be To do a little reconnaissance mission for diff erent, the presentation is brought to you this week’s piece, I did the unthinkable, or with help from the good folks at Crowdson at least something not recommended by the Creative on YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook, almost-octogenarian artist Bob Dylan, and through links found at the SAAC website looked back. And while reading 2019’s end- (www.springfi eldartco.org). Th e online of-the-year Now Playing, I discovered many connection adds the bonus of performances mentions of bands, musicians and artists presented from all over the country, performing in a plethora of local venues just as including the kickoff fi reworks show from St. they had done before, time-and-time again in Petersburg, Florida, at 8 p.m., plus concerts the years, decades, eons and ages preceding the from some of your favorite Springfi eld-based last, lost year of 2020. So I fi rmly believe and artists. So dial it in, then sit back and enjoy. have the utmost faith that very soon we will be And while we dream of all the good seeing live music, in-person and on a regular things to happen in the year to come, please basis, as a thing returning along with many remember First Night is also the main other formerly normal occurrences that blessed fundraising event for the SAAC, so any and our existence before the occurrence of the all donations are much appreciated and will global pandemic wrought by COVID-19. be put to good use in supporting the arts in Now let’s take a look-see at what kind of our area. entertainment is available on New Year’s Eve Happy New Year. Really. See you next 2020 in celebration of the upcoming new year.

December 31, 2020-January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 27 Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage For information, Ann E. Pille, REED SMITH quality or quantity of the title and without Real Estate Foreclosure Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 10 SOUTH recourse to Plaintiff. The sale is further (630) 794-9876. Please refer to fi le WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR, Chicago, IL, subject to confi rmation by the Court. MARKETPLACE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 7TH number 14-20-03621. 60606 (312) 207-1000. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- JUDICIAL CIRCUIT I3161653 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SANGAMON COUNTY - SPRINGFIELD, One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS ILLINOIS Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- Marine Bank f/k/a Marine Bank, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH You can also visit The Judicial Sales SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION Springfi eld JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE PLAINTIFF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS status report of pending sales. FORECLOSURE LAW. Vs. ARENA LIMITED SPV, LLC, Plaintiff, REED SMITH LLP BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, Plaintiff Dana C. Baker; et. al., DEFENDANTS -v.- 10 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR By: /s/ Brian D. Jones 2020CH000159 VCHP SPRINGFIELD, LLC, PACKARD HOS- Chicago IL, 60606 One of Its Attorneys NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL PITALITY MANAGEMENT, LLC, UNKNOWN 312-207-1000 Sorling Northrup ESTATE OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Case Number: 2019 CH 177 Stephen A. Tagge, of Counsel – Reg. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Defendant TJSC#: 40-2453 #2793369 pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure 2019 CH 177 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collec- Brian D. Jones, of Counsel – Reg. and Sale entered in the above cause on NOTICE OF SALE tion Practices Act, you are advised that #6286510 12/02/2020, the Sheriff of Sangamon PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt Attorneys for Plaintiff County, Illinois will on January 26, 2021 pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure collector attempting to collect a debt and One North Old State Capitol Plaza, Suite at the hour of 9:00 AM at in the Second and Sale entered in the above cause any information obtained will be used for 200 Floor Boardroom of the Sangamon on November 25, 2020 (the “Judgment that purpose. P. O. Box 5131 County Courthouse 200 South 9th Street Order”), an agent for The Judicial Sales 19CH117 Springfi eld, IL 62705 Springfi eld, IL 62701, or in a place Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January Telephone: (217) 544-1144 otherwise designated at the time of sale, 12, 2021, at the Sangamon County Court- E-Mail: [email protected] County of Sangamon and State of Illinois, house, 200 S. Ninth Street, SPRINGFIELD, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH sell at public auction to the highest bidder IL, 62701, sell at a public sale to the JUDICIAL CIRCUIT for cash, as set forth below, the following highest bidder, as set forth below, the fol- SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS NOTICE OF SALE described real estate: lowing described real estate and personal BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, an Illinois banking STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT PIN 22-18.0-183-001 property associated therewith described corporation, Plaintiff, OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Improved with Residential more fully in the Judgment Order: v. COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2412 Lindbergh Commonly known as 101 E. ADAMS ST. JEFFREY JOSEPH LANGBEHN, UNKNOWN SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Boulevard Springfi eld, IL 62704 AND 125 E. ADAMS ST., SPRINGFIELD, OWNERS, and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Sale terms: 10% down of the highest IL 62701 Defendants. Plaintiff, bid by certifi ed funds at the close of Property Index No. 14-33-22-7-032, 14- IN CHANCERY vs. the auction; The balance, including 33-228-011, 14-34-101-007 Case No. 2020CH000164 UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned The real estate is improved with a hotel. NOTICE OF SALE THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, Residential Property Municipality Relief The judgment amount was PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLD- Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $18,622,614.64 as of September 30, pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure ERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF THOMAS $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of 2020. entered by the court in the above-entitled J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, UNKNOWN the amount paid by the purchaser not to Sale terms:10% down of the highest cause the property hereinafter described CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST exceed $300, in certifi ed funds, is due bid by certifi ed funds at the close of or so much thereof as shall be suffi cient THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject the sale payable to The Judicial Sales to satisfy said judgment, will be sold to THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, property is subject to general real estate Corporation. No third party checks will be the highest bidder. TRISTIE ANN SIDENER and WILLIAM P. taxes, special assessments, or special accepted. The balance in certifi ed funds/ (A) The name, address and telephone BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE taxes levied against said real estate and is or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four number of the person to contact for infor- OF THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, offered for sale without any representa- (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mation regarding the real estate is: Defendants. tion as to quality or quantity of title and mortgagee acquiring the residential real Suzanna Scherf CASE NO. 19-CH-386 PROPERTY AD- without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale BANK OF SPRINGFIELD DRESS: condition. The sale is further subject to or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, 3400 West Wabash Avenue 1813 E. KEYS AVE. confi rmation by the court. or other lienor acquiring the residential Springfi eld, IL 62711 SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 If the property is a condominium and the real estate whose rights in and to the resi- (217) 529-5555 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, dential real estate arose prior to the sale. (B) The common address and other pursuant to a Judgment of the above purchasers other than the mortgagees will The subject property is subject to general common descriptions, if any, of the real Court entered in the above entitled cause be required to pay any assessment and real estate taxes, special assessments, estate is: on December 16, 2020, the following legal fees due under The Condominium or special taxes levied against said real 2224 South College Street described real estate, to-wit: Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and estate and is offered for sale without any Springfi eld, IL 62704 ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND (g)(4). representation as to quality or quantity of (C) The legal description of the real estate SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, If the property is located in a common title and without recourse to Plaintiff and is as follows: COUNTY OF SANGAMON, STATE OF IL- interest community, purchasers other in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further The South 5 feet of Lot 53 and the North LINOIS, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED than mortgagees will be required to pay subject to confi rmation by the court. 35 feet of Lot 52 in Charles S. Wanless’ AS FOLLOWS: any assessment and legal fees due under Upon payment in full of the amount bid, South First Street Subdivision. Except all Permanent Index Number: 14-23.0- the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS the purchaser will receive a Certifi cate coal and other minerals underlying said 332-026 605/18.5(g-1). of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to lands, together with the right to mine and Commonly known as: 1813 E. Keys Ave., ADVERTISE If the sale is set aside for any reason, the a deed to the real estate and associated remove same. Situated in Sangamon Springfi eld, IL 62702 Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled personal property identifi ed in the Judg- County, Illinois. Commonly known as: will be offered for sale and sold at public only to a return of the deposit paid. The ment Order after confi rmation of the sale. 2224 South College Street, Springfi eld, vendue on January 19, 2021, at 9:00 AM, HERE Purchaser shall have no further recourse The property will NOT be open for inspec- IL 62704 in the Sangamon County Complex, County against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or tion and plaintiff makes no representation Parcel Number: 22-04-407-007 Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfi eld, the Mortgagee’s attorney. as to the condition of the property. Pro- (D) Description of the improvement on the Illinois. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, spective bidders are admonished to check real estate is as follows: The Judgment amount is $52,854.86. the purchaser shall receive a Certifi cate of the court fi le to verify all information. Single-Family Residence The real estate is improved with a single 62,950 Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a If this property is a condominium unit, the (E) The real estate will not be open for family residence. Deed to the real estate after Confi rmation purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure inspection prior to sale. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest of the sale. The successful purchaser has sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay (F) The time and place of the sale are: bid by certifi ed funds at the close of the READERS the sole responsibility/expense of evicting the assessments and the legal fees 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, sale payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon any tenants or other individuals presently required by The Condominium Property in the Sangamon County Board Chambers County. No third party checks will be in possession of the subject premises. Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If (2nd Floor) of the Sangamon County accepted. The balance, including the The property will NOT be open for inspec- this property is a condominium unit Courthouse, 200 South Ninth Street, Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Resi- tion and Plaintiff makes no representation which is part of a common interest com- Springfi eld, Illinois. dential Property Municipality Relief Fund, PLUS YOU JUST as to the condition of the property. Pro- munity, the purchaser of the unit at the (G) The terms of the sale are cash or certi- which is calculated on residential real SAW THIS AD. spective bidders are admonished to check foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee fi ed funds at time of sale. estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 the Court fi le to verify all information. shall pay the assessments required by (H) The subject property is sold subject to or fraction thereof of the amount paid IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS all general real estate taxes which are a by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in ADVERTISE HERE OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO 605/18.5(g-1). lien upon the real estate, all general real certifi ed funds/or wire transfer, is due REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- estate taxes which have not yet become within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee 62,950 AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO due and payable, with special assess- shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS ments, if any, and easements and restric- the residential real estate pursuant READERS 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- tions of record, and existing leases, if any, to its credit bid at the sale or by any Call 217-753-2226 or email FORECLOSURE LAW. PLUS YOU JUST SAW THIS AD. SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION applicable zoning laws; property is sold mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other [email protected] For information: Examine the court fi le 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE “AS IS, WHERE IS, and with no warran- lienor acquiring the residential real estate Call 217-753-2226 or email [email protected] or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Codilis & FORECLOSURE LAW. ties”, and without any representation as to whose rights in and to the mortgaged real

28 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020 - January 6, 2021 estate arose prior to the sale. The subject Springfi eld, IL 62705 Case NO.: 2020-MR-1142 within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate (217) 544-4868 PUBLIC NOTICE property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special PUBLIC NOTICES [email protected] Public Notice is hereby given that on taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate, and is February 16, 2021 I will petition in said taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation Court praying for the change of name from offered for sale without any representa- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH EMMA RAE SMITH to MILES AARON SMITH tion as to quality or quantity of title and as to quality or quantity of title and without CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDI- the Probate Act, 755 ILCS 5/28-4, any JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY, pursuant to the statute in such case made without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” recourse to the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” CIAL CIRCUIT interested person terminates independent ILLINOIS and provided. condition. The sale is further subject to condition. The Sale is further subject to SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS administration at any time by mailing or In the Matter of the Estate of Dated: December 24, 2020 confi rmation by the court. confi rmation by the Court. ESTATE OF delivering a petition to terminate to the ANNA MARIE GRAVES, Deceased. If the property is a condominium and the Upon payment in full of the amount bid, David Roth, Deceased. Clerk. IN PROBATE foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, the purchaser shall receive a Certifi cate of Case No. 2020 P 663 Claims against the estate may be fi led in NO. 2020-P- 642 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH purchasers other than the mortgagees will Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION OF ESTATE the offi ce of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, DEATH AND CLAIM NOTICE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT be required to pay any assessment and Deed to the real estate after confi rmation AND CLAIMS Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. 9th Notice is given to claimants of the Estate SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS legal fees due under The Condominium of the sale. INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVE Street, Springfi eld, Illinois, or with the of ANNA MARIE GRAVES, deceased. In the matter of the Petition of Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and The property will NOT be open for inspec- Notice is given of the death of David Roth. representative, or both, within 6 months of Letters of Offi ce were issued on November LANDEN SCOTT JACOBS (g)(4). tion. Prospective bidders are admon- Letters of offi ce were issued on December the fi rst day that this Notice is published, 25, 2020, to Jacqulyn Graves, Administra- For change of name to If the property is located in a common ished to check the Court fi le to verify all 9, 2020 to Benjamin Roth as independent and any claim not so fi led within that tor, whose attorney is Dwight O’Keefe, LANDON SCOTT CORBRIDGE interest community, purchasers other information. Executor/Representative, whose attorney period is barred. Copies of a claim fi led Brown, Hay & Stephens, 1000 US Bank Case NO.: 2020-MR-1199 than mortgagees will be required to pay For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: is Gary E. Kerr, 1020 S. 7th Street, Spring- with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered Building, P.O. Box 2459, Springfi eld, IL PUBLIC NOTICE any assessment and legal fees due under Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East fi eld, Illinois 62703. to the representative and to the attorney 62705. Public Notice is hereby given that on the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) Notice is given to heirs of the decedent within 10 days after it has been fi led. Claims against the estate may be fi led in February 16, 2021 I will petition in said 605/18.5(g-1). 422-1719 whose names or addresses were not Paul Palazzolo the Offi ce of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Court praying for the change of name If the sale is set aside for any reason, the The purchaser of a condominium unit stated in the petition that an order was Clerk of the Circuit Court Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. Ninth from LANDEN SCOTT JACOBS to LANDON Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than entered by the court on December 9, Sarah Delano Pavlik – 6269250 Street, Springfi eld, IL 62701, or with the SCOTT CORBRIDGE pursuant to the statute only to a return of the deposit paid. The a mortgagee, who takes possession of 2020 admitting the will to probate. Within DELANO LAW OFFICES, LLC representative, or both, on or before June in such case made and provided. Purchaser shall have no further recourse a condominium unit pursuant to a court 42 days after the effective date of the Attorneys for Administrator 1, 2021, or three months from the date Dated: December 24, 2020 against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or order or a purchaser who acquires title original order of admission you may fi le a One Southeast Old State Capitol Plaza the representative mailed or delivered a the Mortgagee’s attorney. from a mortgagee shall have the duty petition with the court to require proof of Springfi eld, Illinois 62701 Notice to Creditor, whichever is later. Any Upon payment in full of the amount bid, to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the will by testimony of the witnesses to Telephone: 217-544-2703 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH claim not fi led within that period is barred. the purchaser shall receive a Certifi cate of the common expenses for the unit which the will in open court or other evidence, Fax: 217-544-4664 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Dated this 25th day of November, 2020. Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a would have become due in the absence of as provided in Section 6-21 of the Probate [email protected] SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Dwight H. O’Keefe Deed to the real estate after Confi rmation any assessment acceleration during the 6 Act (755 ILCS 5/6-21). You also have the In the matter of the Petition of Brown, Hay & Stephens of the sale. The successful purchaser has months immediately preceding institution right under Section 8-1 of the Probate Act BRENDAN ROY WATSON 1000 US Bank Building the sole responsibility/expense of evicting of an action to enforce the collection of (755 ILCS 5/8-1) to contest the validity of IN THE CIRCUIT COURT For change of name to P.O. Box 2459 any tenants or other individuals presently assessments, and which remain unpaid by the will by fi ling a petition with the court OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KRISSY B WATSON Springfi eld, IL 62701 in possession of the subject premises. the owner during whose possession the within 6 months after admission of the will SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Case NO.: 2020-MR-668 (217) 544-8491 The property will NOT be open for inspec- assessments accrued. If the outstanding to probate. In the matter of the estate of: PUBLIC NOTICE tion and Plaintiff makes no representation assessments are paid at any time during The estate will be administered without Jean Ann Orr Carlson, Deceased Public Notice is hereby given that on as to the condition of the property. Pro- any action to enforce the collection of court supervision, unless under Section Case No. 2020-P-661 STATE OF ILLINOIS March 2, 2021 I will petition in said Court spective bidders are admonished to check assessments, the purchaser shall have no 28-4 (755 ILCS 5/28-4) of the Probate Claim Notice IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH praying for the change of name from the Court fi le to verify all information. obligation to pay any assessments which Act any interested person terminates Notice is given of the death of Jean Ann JUDICIAL CIRCUIT BRENDAN ROY WATSON to KRISSY B IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- accrued before he or she acquired title. If independent administration at any time Orr Carlson. Letters Testamentary were SANGAMON COUNTY WATSON OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN this property is a condominium unit which by mailing or delivering a petition to termi- issued to Richard W. Carlson, as Executor, Re: the marriage of pursuant to the statute in such case made IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER is part of a common interest community, nate to the clerk. whose attorney is Mark Cullen. Claims Dwayne Lewis Hunter. Petitioner and provided. ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure Claims against the estate may be fi led against the Estate may be fi led in the Of- and Dated: December 31, 2020 ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the within six months from the date of fi rst fi ce of the Circuit Court at the Sangamon Kala Angela Hunter, Respondent OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLO- assessments required by the Condomini- publication. Any claim not fi led within six County Courthouse, 200 South 9th Street, Case No. 2020-D-330 SURE LAW. um Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5 (g-1). months from the date of fi rst publication Springfi eld, Illinois 62702, with the Execu- NOTICE BY PUBLICATION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 7TH For information: Examine the court fi le If the sale is not confi rmed for any reason, or claims not fi led within three months tor, or with the attorney, on or before, June Notice is given you Kala Angela Hunter, JUDICIAL CIRCUIT or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: Codilis & the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled from the date of mailing or delivery of 17, 2021. Any claim not fi led on or before Respondent herein, that this cause has SANGAMON COUNTY - SPRINGFIELD, Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage only to a return of the purchase price Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall that date is barred. Copies of the claim been commenced against you in this court ILLINOIS Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, paid. The Purchaser shall have no further be barred. fi led with the clerk must be mailed or asking for a dissolution of marriage and Marine Bank f/k/a Marine Bank, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to fi le recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- Claims may be fi led in the offi ce of the delivered to the Executor within 10 days other relief. Springfi eld number 14-20-03621. gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Clerk of the Circuit Court at the Sangamon after it has been fi led. Unless you fi le your response or otherwise PLAINTIFF I3161653 IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- County Complex, 200 S. 9th St, Illinois, Paul Palazzolo fi le your appearance in this cause in the Vs. OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN 62701 or with the representative, or both. Clerk of the Circuit Court offi ce of the Circuit Clerk of Sangamon Dana C. Baker; et. al., DEFENDANTS IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER Attorney for Estate: 2020CH000159 Copies of claims fi led with the Clerk must County, in Springfi eld, Illinois on or before IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEVENTH ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN Mark K. Cullen NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL be mailed or delivered to the representa- the JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (c) 3022 Panther Creek Drive ESTATE tive and to his attorney within ten days 17th day of January, 2021 a judgment of SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLO- Springfi eld, IL 62711 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that after it has been fi led. dissolution of marriage and other relief UNITED COMMUNITY BANK, an Illinois SURE LAW. pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure Dated: December 14, 2020 may be granted as prayed for in the banking corporation, Plaintiff, and Sale entered in the above cause on Law Offi ce of Gary E. Kerr Ltd., Attorney Petition. -vs- Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEVENTH 12/02/2020, the Sheriff of Sangamon for the Estate Paul Palazzolo UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF KEN- Practices Act you are advised that the Law JUDICIAL CIRCUIT County, Illinois will on January 26, 2021 1020 South Seventh Street Circuit Clerk NETH E. STINNETT, deceased, JASON Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS at the hour of 9:00 AM at in the Second Springfi eld, Illinois 62703 K. STINNETT, WILLIAM R. STINNETT, deemed to be a debt collector attempting Estate of: Floor Boardroom of the Sangamon County 217/522-2244 UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD to collect a debt, and any information GEORGE L. SWEAT, Deceased. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH Courthouse 200 South 9th Street Spring- CLAIMANTS and THEODORE J. HARVATIN, obtained will be used for that purpose. NO. 2020-P-681 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT fi eld, IL 62701, or in a place otherwise As Special Representative for KENNETH E. PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT CLAIM NOTICE SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS designated at the time of sale, County STINNETT, Deceased. Defendants. Plaintiff, OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Notice is given of the death of George L. In the matter of the Petition of of Sangamon and State of Illinois, sell at No. 2020CH000188 Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Sweat of Sangamon County, Illinois. Let- CARLY MARIE SPURLOCK public auction to the highest bidder for 3021 S. Park Avenue Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC In the Matter of the Estate of: ters of Offi ce were issued on December For change of name to cash, as set forth below, the following Springfi eld, IL 62704 Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) JoAnn Bokamp, Deceased. 17, 2020, to Lawrence A. Sweat, 4709 SAI MARIE SPURLOCK described real estate: TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC No. 2020-P-503 Bears Paw, Springfi eld, Illinois 62711, Case NO.: 2020-MR-981 LOT FORTY-TWO (42) IN WESTCHESTER KENNETH E. STINNETT, Deceased: Attorneys at Law NOTICE TO HEIRS AND as Executor, whose attorneys are Barber, PUBLIC NOTICE SIXTEEN B ADDITION, EXCEPT ALL COAL Notice is given of the death of Kenneth E. P.O. Box 740 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF CLAIM DATE Segatto, Hoffee, Wilke & Cate, LLP, P.O. Public Notice is hereby given that on AND OTHER MINERALS UNDERLYING SAID Stinnett. The Court has appointed Decatur, IL 62525 Notice is given of the death of JoAnn Box 79, Springfi eld, Illinois 62705. February 2, 2021 I will petition in said LANDS, TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHT TO Theodore J. Harvatin as Special Represen- Send Notice/Pleadings to: Bokamp, of Springfi eld, Illinois. Letters Claims against the estate may be fi led in Court praying for the change of name MINE AND REMOVE SAME. SITUATED IN tative for Kenneth E. Stinnett, deceased, Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) Testamentary were issued on November the offi ce of the Clerk of the Circuit Court from CARLY MARIE SPURLOCK to SAI SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. in the above entitled cause seeking a Email: [email protected] 30, 2020, to JR Evans, 2325 Eastview at the Sangamon County Complex, 200 MARIE SPURLOCK PIN 22-18.0-183-001 Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale on Telephone: (217) 422-1719 Drive, Springfi eld, Illinois, 62702 as In- South Ninth Street, Springfi eld, Illinois pursuant to the statute in such case made Improved with Residential property Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 dependent Administrator, whose attorney 62701 or with the representative or both, and provided. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2412 Lindbergh located at 3021 S. Park Avenue, Spring- 19CH386 of record is DELANO LAW OFFICES, LLC, on or before June 24, 2021, and any claim Dated: December 17, 2020 Boulevard Springfi eld, IL 62704 fi eld, Illinois and legally described as: One Southeast Old State Capitol Plaza, not fi led on or before that date is barred. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest The North 70 feet of the East 5 feet of Lot Springfi eld, Illinois, 62701. Copies of a claim fi led with the Clerk must bid by certifi ed funds at the close of 12 in Call and Landgrebe Subdivision Notice is given to all known and unknown be mailed or delivered to the representa- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH the auction; The balance, including also part of Lot 37 in West Grand Place in heirs of JoAnn Bokamp of the entry of the tive and to the attorney within 10 days JUDICIAL CIRCUIT the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Order as set forth above and of the entry after it has been fi led. SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Residential Property Municipality Relief Quarter of Section 8, Township 15 North, of an Order declaring JR Evans and Jim Dated this 17th day of December, 2020. In the matter of the Petition of Fund, which is calculated at the rate of Range 5 West of the Third Principal Evans as the only heirs of JoAnn Bokamp. Bernard G. Segatto, III - 06190753 EMMA RAE SMITH $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of Meridian, the boundary of said part being The estate will be administered without Barber, Segatto, Hoffee, Wilke & Cate, LLP For change of name to the amount paid by the purchaser not to further described as follows: court supervision, unless under 28-4 of P.O. Box 79 MILES AARON SMITH exceed $300, in certifi ed funds, is due

December 31, 2020 - January 6, 2021 | Illinois Times | 29 Beginning at an iron pin, 105.0 feet North First Nationwide Mortgage Corporation WITH THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH representation as to quality or quantity of (C) The legal description of the real estate NOTICE OF SALE of a concrete monument on the East line Mortgagee, and recorded in the Offi ce HALF OF SAID BLOCK 17; THENCE NORTH title and without recourse to Plaintiff and is as follows: STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT of Lot 37, said concrete monument being of the Recorder of Deeds of Sangamon 89 DEGREES 59 MINUTES 35 SECONDS in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further The South 5 feet of Lot 53 and the North OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 175.0 feet South of the Northeast Corner County, Illinois, as Document No. EAST ALONG SAID PARALLEL LINE A DIS- subject to confi rmation by the court. 35 feet of Lot 52 in Charles S. Wanless’ COUNTY OF SANGAMON SPRINGFIELD, of Lot 37, thence Westerly 143.80 feet 2001R38769; and for other relief. TANCE OF 200.15 FEET TO A POINT ON A Upon payment in full of the amount bid, South First Street Subdivision. Except all SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS parallel to and 70.0 feet Southerly from UNLESS YOU fi le your answer or otherwise LINE 150.00 FEET WEST OF AND RUNNING the purchaser will receive a Certifi cate coal and other minerals underlying said PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, the fi le your appearance in this case, on or PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to lands, together with the right to mine and Plaintiff, North line of Lot 37, thence Easterly before January 25, 2021, A JUDGMENT BLOCK 17, THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES 05 a deed to the real estate and associated remove same. Situated in Sangamon vs. 143.70 feet along said North line of Lot OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN MINUTES 49 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID personal property identifi ed in the Judg- County, Illinois. Commonly known as: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF 37 to AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN PARALLEL LINE, A DISTANCE OF 158.36 ment Order after confi rmation of the sale. 2224 South College Street, Springfi eld, THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, an iron pin at the Northeast Corner of Lot THE COMPLAINT. FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH LINE OF The property will NOT be open for inspec- IL 62704 UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLD- 37, thence Southerly 70.0 feet along the E-fi ling is now mandatory with limited SAID BLOCK 17, SAID SOUTH LINE ALSO tion and plaintiff makes no representation Parcel Number: 22-04-407-007 ERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF THOMAS East line of Lot 37 to the Point of Begin- exemptions. To e-fi le, you must fi rst BEING THE NORTH LINE OF AN 80.00 as to the condition of the property. Pro- (D) Description of the improvement on the J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, UNKNOWN ning. create an account with an e-fi ling service FEET RIGHT OF WAY FOR ADAMS STREET; spective bidders are admonished to check real estate is as follows: CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST PIN: 22-08.0-253-040 provider. Visit http://efi le.illinoiscourts.gov/ THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 59 MINUTES the court fi le to verify all information. Single-Family Residence THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF The address of the Special Representa- service-providers.htm to learn more and 13 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAID SOUTH If this property is a condominium unit, the (E) The real estate will not be open for THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, tive is: Harvatin Law Offi ces, P.C., 1100 to select a service provider. LINE A DISTANCE OF 200.81 FEET TO purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure inspection prior to sale. TRISTIE ANN SIDENER and WILLIAM P. So. Fifth If you need additional help or have trouble THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SITUATED IN sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay (F) The time and place of the sale are: BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE Street, Springfi eld, IL 62703. You may e-fi ling, visit http://www.illinoiscourts. SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. the assessments and the legal fees 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 12, 2021, OF THOMAS J. SIDENER, JR., DECEASED, direct any questions you have to him, or gov/faq/gethelp.asp or talk with your local PARCEL 2: required by The Condominium Property in the Sangamon County Board Chambers Defendants. you may circuit clerk’s offi ce. If you cannot e-fi le, LOTS. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 AND 26 OF Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If (2nd Floor) of the Sangamon County CASE NO. 19-CH-386 PROPERTY AD- retain counsel of your own choosing, or you may be able to get an exemption that BULLOCKS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF this property is a condominium unit Courthouse, 200 South Ninth Street, DRESS: represent yourself, or do nothing. allows you to fi le in-person or by mail. Ask SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS AS RECORDED IN which is part of a common interest com- Springfi eld, Illinois. 1813 E. KEYS AVE. E-fi ling is now mandatory for documents your circuit clerk for more information or PLAT BOOK 7 AT PAGE 53 IN THE OFFICE munity, the purchaser of the unit at the (G) The terms of the sale are cash or certi- SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 in civil cases with limited exemptions. visit www.illinoislegalaid.org. OF SANGAMON COUNTY RECORDER foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee fi ed funds at time of sale. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that To e-fi le, If you are unable to pay your court fees, OF DEEDS BEING MORE PARTICULARLY shall pay the assessments required by (H) The subject property is sold subject to pursuant to a Judgment of the above you must fi rst create an account with you can apply for a fee waiver. For infor- DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS all general real estate taxes which are a Court entered in the above entitled cause an e-fi ling service provider. Visit e-fi le. mation about defending yourself in a court BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER 605/18.5(g-1). lien upon the real estate, all general real on December 16, 2020, the following illinoiscourts.gov/ case (including fi ling an appearance or fee OF LOT 26 IN SAID BULLOCKS ADDI- IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- estate taxes which have not yet become described real estate, to-wit: service-providers.htm to learn more and waiver), or to apply for free legal help, go TION, THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 59 OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO due and payable, with special assess- ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND to select a service provider. If you need to www.illinoislegalaid.org. You can also MINUTES 13 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS ments, if any, and easements and restric- SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, additional help or have trouble e-fi ling, ask your local circuit clerk’s offi ce for a NORTH LINE OF AN 80.00 FEET RIGHT OF AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- tions of record, and existing leases, if any, COUNTY OF SANGAMON, STATE OF IL- visit www.illinoiscourts.gov/FAQ/gethelp. fee waiver application. WAY FOR ADAMS STREET, A DISTANCE SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION applicable zoning laws; property is sold LINOIS, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED asp. PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLEC- OF 240.74 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE “AS IS, WHERE IS, and with no warran- AS FOLLOWS: /S/ THEODORE J. HARVATIN TION PRACTICES ACT, THE PLAINTIFF’S CORNER OF LOT 21 IN SAID BULLOCKS FORECLOSURE LAW. ties”, and without any representation as to LOT FIFTY-FIVE (55) IN SPAULDING’S SEC- As Special Representative for Kenneth E. ATTORNEY IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT ADDITION; THENCE NORTH 0 DEGREES 11 For information, Ann E. Pille, REED SMITH quality or quantity of the title and without OND ILLINOIS WATCH FACTORY ADDITION. Stinnett, Deceased. COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT MINUTES 52 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 10 SOUTH recourse to Plaintiff. The sale is further Permanent Index Number: 14-23.0- THEODORE J. HARVATIN A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WILL BE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 21, A DISTANCE WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR, Chicago, IL, subject to confi rmation by the Court. 332-026 Attorney Reg. #06180268 USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. OF 158.30 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST 60606 (312) 207-1000. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- Commonly known as: 1813 E. Keys Ave., Harvatin Law Offi ces, P.C. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC CORNER OF SAID LOT 21, SAID CORNER THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO Springfi eld, IL 62702 1100 So. Fifth Street Attorney for Plaintiff ALSO BEING ON THE SOUTH LINE OF One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS will be offered for sale and sold at public Springfi eld, IL 62703 1 N. Dearborn St. Suite 1200 A 16 FOOT ALLEY; THENCE SOUTH 89 Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES- vendue on January 19, 2021, at 9:00 AM, Tel. 217-525-0520 Chicago, IL 60602 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 03 SECONDS You can also visit The Judicial Sales SION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION in the Sangamon County Complex, County Fax. 217-525-0901 Ph. (312) 346-9088 EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE Board Room, 2nd Floor, Springfi eld, [email protected] File No. 20-02422IL ALLEY, A DISTANCE OF 240.58 FEET status report of pending sales. FORECLOSURE LAW. Illinois. 20CH188 I3161460 TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT REED SMITH LLP BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, Plaintiff The Judgment amount is $52,854.86. 26 IN SAID BULLOCKS ADDITION, SAID 10 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, 40TH FLOOR By: /s/ Brian D. Jones The real estate is improved with a single CORNER BEING ON THE WEST LINE OF Chicago IL, 60606 One of Its Attorneys family residence. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH AN 80.00 FEET RIGHT OF WAY FOR FIRST 312-207-1000 Sorling Northrup Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid JUDICIAL CIRCUIT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT STREET; THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES, 08 Case Number: 2019 CH 177 Stephen A. Tagge, of Counsel – Reg. by certifi ed funds at the close of the sale COUNTY OF SANGAMON - SPRINGFIELD, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS MINUTES 24 TJSC#: 40-2453 #2793369 payable to The Sheriff of Sangamon Coun- ILLINOIS ARENA LIMITED SPV, LLC, Plaintiff, SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collec- Brian D. Jones, of Counsel – Reg. ty. No third party checks will be accepted. NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORT- -v.- OF SAID LOT 26, A DISTANCE OF 158.22 tion Practices Act, you are advised that #6286510 The balance, including the Judicial sale GAGE SERVICING, VCHP SPRINGFIELD, LLC, PACKARD HOS- FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SITU- Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt Attorneys for Plaintiff fee for Abandoned Residential Property PLAINTIFF, PITALITY MANAGEMENT, LLC, UNKNOWN ATED IN THE COUNTY OF SANGAMON, IN collector attempting to collect a debt and One North Old State Capitol Plaza, Suite Municipality Relief Fund, which is calcu- VS. OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. any information obtained will be used for 200 lated on residential real estate at the rate TED HARVATIN, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE Defendant PARCEL 3: that purpose. P. O. Box 5131 of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, MI- 2019 CH 177 THE EAST 150 FEET OF THE SOUTH 19CH117 Springfi eld, IL 62705 of the amount paid by the purchaser CHAEL ECKHOFF; MARY ROSE; UNKNOWN NOTICE OF SALE 157.8 FEET OF BLOCK 17 OF THE OLD Telephone: (217) 544-1144 not to exceed $300, in certifi ed funds/or HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MICHAEL PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that TOWN PLAT OF THE TOWN, NOW CITY OF E-Mail: [email protected] wire transfer, is due within twenty-four ECKHOFF, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure SPRINGFIELD SANGAMON COUNTY ILLI- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, and Sale entered in the above cause NOIS ALSO DESCRIBED AS LOT 8 AND THE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT mortgagee acquiring the residential real DEFENDANTS. on November 25, 2020 (the “Judgment EAST 62.2 FEET OF LOT 7, BLOCK 17 OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Grandview Mini Storage and Scotty’s estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale NO. 20 CH 000118 Order”), an agent for The Judicial Sales THE OLD TOWN PLAT OF THE TOWN, NOW BANK OF SPRINGFIELD, an Illinois banking Self Storage announces a private sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, 1517 NORTH 5TH STREET Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, SITUATED corporation, Plaintiff, to enforce self-storage lien in default of or other lienor acquiring the residential SPRINGFIELD, IL 62702 12, 2021, at the Sangamon County Court- IN SANGAMON COUNTY ILLINOIS. v. payment or rent. Call 217-638-6859 for real estate whose rights in and to the JUDGE house, 200 S. Ninth Street, SPRINGFIELD, Commonly known as 101 E. ADAMS ST. JEFFREY JOSEPH LANGBEHN, UNKNOWN an appointment. mortgaged real estate arose prior to the PRESIDING JUDGE IL, 62701, sell at a public sale to the AND 125 E. ADAMS ST., SPRINGFIELD, OWNERS, and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Scotty’s Self Storage sale. The subject property is subject to NOTICE BY PUBLICATION highest bidder, as set forth below, the fol- IL 62701 Defendants. 322-Brown general real estate taxes, special assess- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO YOU, lowing described real estate and personal Property Index No. 14-33-22-7-032, 14- IN CHANCERY 416-Byrd ments or special taxes levied against UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF property associated therewith described 33-228-011, 14-34-101-007 Case No. 2020CH000164 114-Overeall said real estate, and is offered for sale MICHAEL ECKHOFF, IF ANY more fully in the Judgment Order: The real estate is improved with a hotel. NOTICE OF SALE 352-Minis-Nelson without any representation as to quality Unknown Owners and Non-Record PARCEL 1: The judgment amount was PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that 304-Granderson or quantity of title and without recourse to Claimants THE SOUTH HALF OF BLOCK 17, EXCEPT $18,622,614.64 as of September 30, pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure 406-McCreary the Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The defendants, that this case has been THE NORTH 8.00 FEET AND EXCEPT THE 2020. entered by the court in the above-entitled 222-Boose Sale is further subject to confi rmation by commenced in this Court against you and EAST 150.00 FEET THEREOF, OF THE OLD Sale terms:10% down of the highest cause the property hereinafter described 21-Thompson, Z the Court. other defendants, asking for the foreclo- TOWN PLAT OF THE TOWN, NOW CITY, OF bid by certifi ed funds at the close of or so much thereof as shall be suffi cient 68-Bell Upon payment in full of the amount bid, sure of a certain Mortgage conveying the SPRINGFIELD, the sale payable to The Judicial Sales to satisfy said judgment, will be sold to 256-Chasteem the purchaser shall receive a Certifi cate of premises described as follows, to wit: ILLINOIS, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 7 Corporation. No third party checks will be the highest bidder. 309-Chasteem Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a THE EAST 180.7 FEET OF THE SOUTH 45 AT PAGE 10 IN THE OFFICE OF THE SAN- accepted. The balance in certifi ed funds/ (A) The name, address and telephone 218-Mosley Deed to the real estate after confi rmation FEET OF LOT 5 IN BEVERLY ALLEN’S SUB- GAMON COUNTY RECORDER OF DEEDS, or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four number of the person to contact for infor- 154-Byars of the sale. DIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mation regarding the real estate is: 162-Schmiadt The property will NOT be open for inspec- THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION AS FOLLOWS: mortgagee acquiring the residential real Suzanna Scherf 105-Mosley tion. Prospective bidders are admonished 22, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 5 WEST BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale BANK OF SPRINGFIELD 251-Eldgridge to check the Court fi le to verify all OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, SITU- OF SAID BLOCK 17, THENCE NORTH 0 or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, 3400 West Wabash Avenue 106-Tomlin information. ATED IN SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. DEGREES 08 MINUTES 24 SECONDS EAST or other lienor acquiring the residential Springfi eld, IL 62711 103-Hudson For information contact Plaintiff’s Attorney: Commonly known as: 1517 North 5th ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID BLOCK real estate whose rights in and to the resi- (217) 529-5555 34-Poorman Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 East Street 17, SAID WEST LINE ALSO BEING THE dential real estate arose prior to the sale. (B) The common address and other 113-Sherman Main Street, Decatur, IL 62523, (217) Springfi eld, IL 62702 EAST LINE OF AN 80.00 FEET RIGHT OF The subject property is subject to general common descriptions, if any, of the real 129-Sherman 422-1719 and which said Mortgage was made by, WAY FOR FIRST STREET, A DISTANCE OF real estate taxes, special assessments, estate is: 131-Caldwell The purchaser of a condominium unit Michael Eckhoff a/k/a Michael R Eckhoff 158.28 FEET TO A POINT ON A LINE 8.00 or special taxes levied against said real 2224 South College Street 93-Birge at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than Mortgagor(s), to FEET SOUTH OF AND RUNNING PARALLEL estate and is offered for sale without any Springfi eld, IL 62704 a mortgagee, who takes possession of

30 | www.illinoistimes.com | December 31, 2020 - January 6, 2021 a condominium unit pursuant to a court Case No: 20-JA-234 order or a purchaser who acquires title NOTICE BY PUBLICATION from a mortgagee shall have the duty NOTICE IS GIVEN JACLYNN MEYER, ZACH- to pay the proportionate share, if any, of ARY THOMAS AND UNKNOWN FATHERS, the common expenses for the unit which respondents, and to all whom it may would have become due in the absence of concern, that on September 3, 2020 a any assessment acceleration during the 6 petition was fi led under the Juvenile months immediately preceding institution Court Act by State’s Attorney’s Offi ce of an action to enforce the collection of in this court and that in courtroom of assessments, and which remain unpaid by Judge Karen Tharp or any judge sitting the owner during whose possession the in her stead in Room 7A of Sangamon assessments accrued. If the outstanding County Complex, 200 South Ninth Street, assessments are paid at any time during Springfi eld, Illinois, on JANUARY 22, 2021 any action to enforce the collection of at 2:30 PM hearing will be held upon the assessments, the purchaser shall have no petition to have the minor declared to be obligation to pay any assessments which a ward of the court and for other relief accrued before he or she acquired title. If under the Act. THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY this property is a condominium unit which IN THIS CASE TO TAKE FROM YOU THE is part of a common interest community, CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure MINOR. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS assessments required by the Condomini- AND THE APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN um Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5 (g-1). WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, If the sale is not confi rmed for any reason, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled THE CHILD. UNLESS YOU appear at the only to a return of the purchase price hearing and show cause to the contrary, paid. The Purchaser shall have no further AN ORDER OR JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mort- MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU FOR gagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE PETITION. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- UNLESS YOU APPEAR AT THE HEARING, OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO FURTHER IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE PROCEEDINGS ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN IN THIS CASE, INCLUDING THE FILING OF ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (c) AN AMENDED PETITION OR MOTION TO OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLO- TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS. SURE LAW. Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that the Law STATE OF ILLINOIS Firm of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH deemed to be a debt collector attempting JUDICIAL CIRCUIT to collect a debt, and any information SANGAMON COUNTY obtained will be used for that purpose. Michael Emerson Petitioner PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, vs. Plaintiff, Steven Behl, Jr., Respondent Veronika J. Miles (#6313161), Its Attorney Case No: 2020-OP-1423 Of Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) Steven Behl, Jr. , this cause has been HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC commenced against you in this Court Attorneys at Law asking for an Order of Protection. Unless P.O. Box 740 you fi le your Answer or otherwise fi le your Decatur, IL 62525 Appearance in this cause in the Offi ce Send Notice/Pleadings to: of the Circuit Clerk of Sangamon County, Veronika J. Miles (#6313161) Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. Ninth Email: [email protected] St., Room 405, Springfi eld, Illinois, on or Telephone: (217) 422-1719 before January 28, 2021, a judgment or Facsimile: (217) 422-1754 decree by default may be taken against 19CH386 you for the relief asked in the complaint. Paul Palazzolo Clerk of the Court STATE OF ILLINOIS Date: December 24, 2020 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SANGAMON COUNTY IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH Re: the marriage of JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Amanda Behymer. Petitioner SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS and In the matter of the Petition of Jesse Behymer, Respondent TYLOR NASIR DESHAUN HENDRICKS Case No. 2020-D-326 For change of name to NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NASIR.ANTOINE.SINCERE (N.A.S) RONALD Notice is given you Jesse Behymer, HEARD Respondent herein, that this cause has Case NO.: 2020-MR-1076 been commenced against you in this court PUBLIC NOTICE asking for a dissolution of marriage and Public Notice is hereby given that on other relief. February 16, 2021 I will petition in said Unless you fi le your response or otherwise Court praying for the change of name from fi le your appearance in this cause in the TYLOR NASIR DESHAUN HENDRICKS to offi ce of the Circuit Clerk of Sangamon NASIR.ANTOINE.SINCERE (N.A.S) RONALD County, in Springfi eld, Illinois on or before HEARD pursuant to the statute in such the case made and provided. 17th day of January, 2021 a judgment of Dated: December 31, 2020 dissolution of marriage and other relief may be granted as prayed for in the Petition. Paul Palazzolo Circuit Clerk

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS In the interest of SHAE LYNN THOMAS, a minor

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