Charleston High School Illinois Alumni Obituaries

Mary Jane Zubal passed away on Tuesday December 30 2025 at St. Johns Hospital in Springfield IL. She was 86 years old. Mary Jane was born on September 15 1939 to John R. Miller and Lula Mae Moore Miller in Ashmore IL. She attended Ashmore Grade School Charleston High School and Eastern Illinois Univ...

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...

Barbara M. Eberly, 86, of Oblong, passed away at 3:38 p.m. on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at Crawford Memorial Hospital in Robinson, Illinois.Barbara was born on February 27, 1939, in Pinkstaff, Illinois, a daughter of Lyman O. Stevenson and Thelma June Earnst Stevenson. She married William R. “Bill”...

Sylvia Ruth Nichols of Evansville IN died on Sunday January 18 2026 after a brief illness. She was born on November 14 1940 in Alton IL to Esther and Howard Gebelein and grew up in South Roxana IL. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University and began her career teaching chemistry and math at Law...

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...

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...

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...

He was born on February 22 1936 to Melvin and Anna Violet Lathe Fillmore in the town of Arland. He graduated from Prairie Farm High School in 1954 and worked on a farm near Birchwood for one and a half years. He joined the Navy and began a long career of serving his country. After basic training at ...

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...

Clyde Wayne Hedrick went to be with the Lord January 13, 2026.He passed peacefully at home with his children by his side.Clyde was proceeded in death by his loving wife of 71 years, HildaKincaid Hedrick, parents Carrie Sheppard and Marion Hedrick, brothersCharles, John, Walter, Art and sister Ruth.H...