Freeport High School Illinois Alumni Obituaries

Joan McCollum Wootan died on January 11 2026 at Clarissa Cook Hospice House in Bettendorf IA on her 97th birthday. She was born on January 11 1929 in Chicago IL to George Erskine and Erma Robertson Erskine. She attended The Avery Coonley School through 8th grade and graduated from Downers Grove High...

He married his highschool sweetheart Ann Schmidt in 1962 and they both earned degrees from ColbyCollege in 1964. Ken began his career as an educator teaching English atEvanston Township High School in Evanston Illinois while earning his MAT atNorthwestern University. He then went on to earn his PhD ...

FREEPORT Ann Marie Leavitt Colbath 81 passed away on October 3 2021 at Hawthorne House Alzheimers Care in Freeport Maine where she had been a patient since November 2016. Ann was born on October 21 1940 in Presque Isle Maine moved to Houlton the same year and grew up there. She graduated with High ...

DURHAM Beverly G. Reynolds passed away on March 8 2017 at the Freeport Nursing Home in Freeport Maine. She was born in Winslow Maine on September 15 1929 the daughter of William and Anocia Huard Glidden. She graduated from Winslow High School the class of 1947. Beverly was an accomplished pianist a...

TOPSHAM David passed away peacefully at home in Topsham ME on the morning of January 27 2015 surrounded by his wife and four daughters and a blanket of white snow falling outside his window. He was 67 years old. David lived his life with courage love humor and grace to his very last hour even with ...

The sunsets over Big Turtle Lake will miss Betty’s appreciation and being captured in yet one more photo of them. Betty moved with her parents from Freeport, Illinois, at age nine helping to build the resort Sunset View Terrace, now known as Kohl’s Resort. Born in Redwood Falls, MN, 14 December 1930...

Charles Chuck William Krusey age 74 of Parkersburg Iowa was born the son of Roland William and Clara Alvina Kampman Krusey on June 26 1951 in Freeport Illinois. In 1969 Chuck graduated from Foreston High School and went on to attend Rockford Junior College. He also attended one year at Northwestern ...

Steven Wayne Barnett, 73, former Cassville, WI resident, passed away Friday, January 16th at Monroe Health Services in Monroe, WI.Steve was born April 20, 1952, in Roswell, New Mexico, the youngest son of Wayne and Ella Claire (Stewart) Barnett. A military brat for much of his childhood, Steve’s fam...