Obituaries

Marilyn Schneider

Jul 30, 2013

Marilyn Schneider, age 82 of Evansville and formerly of Carmi, died Tuesday July 30, 2013 at Village of Hamilton Pointe in Newburgh, IN. She was born June 6, 1931 in Carmi, the daughter of Howard and Mabel (Baker) Churchwell. She married Charles W. Schneider on December 24, 1948 in Carmi and he preceded her in death on June 3, 1981....

Ruby McClurken

Jul 27, 2013

Ruby M. McClurken, 87, died peacefully at home on Saturday, July 27, 2013. Ruby was born in Kingdom Township on Nov. 8, 1925 to Joseph and Robbie York Greer. She married Archie Pretzsch on August 16, 1943 and the couple settled in Carmi after Archie’s service in the Army. Ruby and Archie celebrated the birth of two children, Michael Joe...

Joshua Malone

Jul 25, 2013

Biography

Joshua Orlando Malone, age 34 of Enfield, died Thursday July 25, 2013 at his home. He was born August 1, 1978 in Olney, the son of Tommy and Linda (Marks) Malone. Joshua graduated from SIU at Carbondale and just recently graduated from Heavy Equipment Operator School in Dothen, AL. He served in United States Marines from 1996-2000. He...

Dwight Keele

Jul 19, 2013

Dwight W. Keele, age 79 of Mt. Vernon, IN died Friday at Deaconess Hospice in Evansville. He was born January 29, 1934 at Harmony, IL the son of Leuty and Ruth (Sumner) Keele. He married Marilyn Lane on March 18, 1956 at Mt. Vernon, IL. Dwight taught school in Champaign for 22 years before working for Marathon Oil in Mt....

Patrick Marlin

Jul 14, 2013

Patrick Marlin, 72, of Norris City, passed away Sunday, July 14, 2013, at 9:10 a.m. at Wabash Christian Retirement Center in Carmi. He was born March 17, 1941 in Harrisburg, IL, the son of Arthur Hines and Eleanor Alice (Wheeland) Marlin. Patrick was a teacher and had been a member of the Peace Corp in Samoa. He was a...

Archie Hooser

Jul 9, 2013

Archie Wayne Hooser, 75, of Carmi, passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. at Golden Living Center-Brentwood in Evansville, IN. He was born November 8, 1937 in Phillipstown, IL, the son of Samuel Archie and Emma Alice (Shepard) Hooser. Archie was a U.S. Army veteran and worked for the Department of Defense in the Naval Intelligence Department....

Neva Black

Jul 9, 2013

Neva V. Black, formerly of Enfield and Carmi, passed away Tuesday, July 9th at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. She was born January 12, 1926 in Swain County, North Carolina to George Washington England and Susan May Randolph England. She married William M. “Bill” Black on December 18, 1954 and he preceded her in death in 1992. She had worked in...

Dorothy Carmi

Jun 30, 2013

Dorothy Jean Barr, "Dot" of Carmi passed away Sunday, June 30, 2013 at the age of 81 at Wabash Christian Retirement Center in Carmi, where she was surrounded and uplifted by Chaplain Mike Fields and family members. She was born April 28, 1932 in Phillipstown, IL the daughter of Anderson and Macel (Tolley) Browning. Shortly after the passing of...

David Tatom

Jun 30, 2013

David Allen Tatom, 71 of Maunie, passed away Sunday June 30, 2013 at 3:55 a.m. at his residence in Maunie. He was born February 5, 1942 in Nevada City, California, the son of Raymond Lloyd and Hattie Mae (Winton) Tatom. David married Linda Lou Franklin December 5, 1964. He was an underground contruction miner.

Surviving are his...

Wanda Holtzclaw

Jun 29, 2013

Wanda Rae Holtzclaw, 68, of Norris City, passed away Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. at the Deaconess Hospice Center in Evansville, IN. She was born July 4, 1944 in Evansville, IN, the daughter of Elmer and Evelyn Pauline (Richardson) Hall. She was a Homemaker, a cook for Ingrim Barge Company on a towboat.

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Jeffrey Turpin

Jun 26, 2013

Jeffrey S. Turpin, 53, of Carmi passed away Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 3:05 p.m. at his residence. He was born in Carmi on September 9, 1959 the son of Jerry Lee and Kerin Jane (DeBoard) Turpin. Jeff married Joyce Ann Naas on November 18, 1978. He was a 1977 graduate of Norris City-Omaha High...

Larry Cushman

Jun 20, 2013

Larry L. Cushman, age 74, of Springerton, passed away Thursday, June 20, 2013, at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro. He was born April 26, 1939 in Springerton, the son of Harlan and Mary (Wright) Cushman. He married Lucy Naomi Johnson on June 16, 1957 in Fairfield. Larry was the manager of the Wabash Valley Plant in Springerton for 35 years....

Wanda Smith

Jun 19, 2013

Wanda Colclasure Smith, age 78, of Carmi, passed away Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. She was born September 28, 1934, in Merriam, IL, the daughter of Lowell and Hazel (Waln) Colclasure. She had worked at Spartan’s Manufacturing in Grayvillle. Mrs. Smith attended the Stewart St. Baptist Church. She loved to sing and play with her grandkids....

John Edmondson

Jun 11, 2013

Biography

John Hayward Edmondson, age 95, of Jacksonville, FL, passed away Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in Florida. He was born at home on December 2, 1917, in White County, IL, the son of George G. Edmondson and the former Elizabeth K. Ude. Growing up working on a farm during the depression taught him life lessons of thrift and savings....

Juanita Hammell

Jun 10, 2013

Juanita Hammell, 93, of Evansville formerly of Carmi passed away Monday, June 10, 2013 at 6:07 p.m. at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, IN. She was born April 7, 1920 in Enfield, IL the daughter of Louis and Clyde (Wolfe) Russell. Juanita married Chauncey Elmer Russell Hammell on October 23, 1943 and he preceded her in death on August 19,...

Helen Ziegler

Jun 8, 2013

Helen Ziegler, 80, of Carmi passed away Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 11:59 a.m. at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, IN. She was born October 29, 1932 in Emma Township, IL the daughter of William and Nora (Alldredge) Burnett.. Helen married L.D. "Dobber" Ziegler on November 17, 1951 and he preceded her in death on October 12, 2002. She was...

Patricia Buchanan

Jun 6, 2013

Patricia Buchanan, 64, of Fairfield, and formerly of Carmi, passed away Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 6:40 a.m. in Fairfield. She was born October 13, 1948 in Carmi, IL, the daughter of Weldon Dee and Pauline (McMinn) Leonberger. Patricia was a homemaker. She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Dee Ann and Stevie Jackson of Dixon, TN and...

Ica Howard

Jun 6, 2013

Ica Howard, 88, of Broughton passed away Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 7:39 p.m. at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, IN. She was born April 12, 1925 in Hamilton County, IL the daughter of Christopher Columbus and Eliza Jane (Allen) Wheeler. Ica married Eddie Howard on December 3, 1945. She was a farm wife and attended the Norris City...

Helen Andrew

Jun 4, 2013

Biography

Helen Andrew, age 88, of Enfield, formerly of Carrollton, KY, passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at Countryside Manor Health Care in Mt. Vernon, IL. She was born June 7, 1924, in near Greeneville, KY, the daughter of Wesley and Nettie (Smith) Smith. She married Uhel Andrew on January 11, 1945, in Kentucky, and he preceded her in...

Samuel Hamblin

Jun 4, 2013

Biography

Samuel Max Hamblin, age 65, of Carmi, passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. He was born June 3, 1948, in Evansville, the son of Samuel Asa and Mary “Litty” (Jobe) Hamblin. He married Sharon Cozart on June 3, 2004, and she survives. Sam retired from Babcock and Wilcox after thirty years of working...