Charleston High School Illinois Alumni Obituaries

William Henry Martins 83 passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones on Thursday November 27 2025. He was born on April 23 1942 in Oak Park Illinois to the late Roy Martins and Agnes Cramer. Bill graduated from Middletown High School in 1960 and attended Miami University of Ohio. He went on to w...

Jean was born to Willis B. Kilpatrick and Wilda Law Kilpatrick in Oneonta New York on August 1 1923. Willis was a Presbyterian minister and Wilda an at home mom and elementary school Math teacher. The family moved to Greenfield Ohio in the mid1920s where Willis became the pastor of the First Presbyt...

Kelly H Barker died on December 16 2025 at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart Florida. He was born in Mississippi County Missouri to Lonnie Eugene Barker and Clora W. Hopgood Barker and was raised on the Barker Family Home Place in the area known as Barkers Ridge. The farm shaped his l...

Of Pittsburgh passed away on Saturday October 18 2025 surrounded by her loved ones. Jera was born on February 3 1985 in Danville IL to Derek and Tammy Collom Baker of Ridge Farm IL. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2005 to be with her best friend and love of her life Joe who will miss her deeply. Jera gra...

Richard was born on August 4th 1951 in Conroe TX. He was the son of Rick and June Whitaker a geologist and a schoolteacher. He spent his childhood in many different states before graduating from Captain Shreve High School in Shreveport LA in 1969. Richard worked his way through college to earn a bac...