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Donald Secor Leckrone
Apr. 27, 2020
Donald Secor Leckrone, 88, of Decatur IL, passed away at 10:05 pm Monday, April 27th at Decatur Memorial Hospital. Due to the current health crisis, a memorial service will be held at a later date. Don was born on March 24, 1932 in Hammond IN, the son of Ivan Leckrone and Dorothy (Secor). He was...
John Norris
Apr. 27, 2020
John Junior Norris, 80, of Decatur, IL passed away at his residence on April 27, 2020. John was born September 25, 1939 in Virginia, IL. The son of James Douglas and Beatrice (Stewart) Norris. He married Judith Flenner on August 1, 1981 in Chatham, IL. John was a produce manager within the...
Tennie Mae Gordillo
Apr. 26, 2020
Tennie Mae Gordillo, 84, of Decatur, passed away Sunday, April 26, 2020, at Prairie Rose Health Care Center in Pana. Tennie was born November 26, 1935, in Red Boiling Springs, TN to Benton and Stacy (Carter) West. She married Luis L. Gordillo on April 30, 1953 in Clinton, IL. He passed away April...
James David McCleery
Apr. 26, 2020
James (Jim) David McCleery, 82, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2020 at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois. Jim was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 16th, 1938 to William David McCleery and Evelyn M. Whitehead. He spent some of his youth in Arizona before becoming a permanent...
Rebecca Carol Cutler
Apr. 23, 2020
Rebecca Carol Cutler, 85 of Decatur, IL passed away Thursday, April 23 in Arlington, TX. ‘Becky’ was born on February 4, 1935 in Kalamazoo, MI, the daughter of Thomas ‘Bone’ and Blanche Walton. The youngest of 8 children, she grew up on a farm outside of Bethany, IL, where she acquired a...
Bernard Michael McLaughlin
Apr. 23, 2020
Bernard Michael McLaughlin, 77, of Decatur, IL passed away April 23, 2020 at his residence. Mike was born September 3, 1942, in Pensacola, FL, the son of CAPT Bernard McLaughlin, USN, and June (Harms) McLaughlin. He married Connie Chandler on June 2, 1975, in Clinton, IL. Mike earned his...
Morris L. McCain
Apr. 23, 2020
Decatur - Morris L. McCain, 79, of Decatur, passed into the loving arms of Jesus on Thursday, April 23, 2020. He was born November 13, 1940, in Vandalia, the son of Clayton and Mary (Boaz) McCain. He married Marjorie E. “Marge” Hipsher in Vandalia, IL. Morris was a U.S. Army veteran and attended...
Robert "Bob" P. Davis
Apr. 22, 2020
Robert “Bob” Paul Davis, 76, of Decatur, passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, at Decatur Memorial Hospital. Bob was born November 28, 1943, in Kansas City, MO, to James Milton and Violet Vera (Osborne) Davis. He married Sandra Lynn Spellmeyer on November 28, 1964. He is survived by his...
Bonnilyn Rose Barding
Apr. 21, 2020
Decatur – Bonnilyn Rose Barding, 81, of Terre Haute, IN, formerly of Decatur, passed away Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in Terre Haute, IN. Bonnie was born October 26, 1938, in Decatur, the daughter of Edwin Ambrose and Della May (Cook) Ryan and was later adopted by Edward Winfield Marshall. A...
Dawn Marie Mowen
Apr. 21, 2020
Dawn Marie Mowen, 66, of Decatur, passed away Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, due to Covid-19. Dawn was born August 10, 1953, in Decatur, to Donald Curtis and Estella Marie (Bilyeu) Sterling. She married Michael Mowen on March 3, 1973 in Decatur, IL. She is survived...
Betty Lou Watts
Apr. 21, 2020
Betty Lou Watts, 83, of Decatur, passed away Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at Decatur Memorial Hospital. Betty was born December 30, 1936, in Decatur, to Noble Harvey and Ethel Lucile (Mullins) Watts. She retired from Decatur Memorial Hospital in 2005. Later, she was a helper to very special friends...
Thomas E. Williamson Sr.
Apr. 21, 2020
Decatur – Thomas E. Williamson, Sr., 90, of Decatur, passed away Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Thomas was born August 21, 1929, in Decatur, the son of George and Ann (Donahey) Williamson. Thomas worked as a setup man at Grigoleit Company and was an Army veteran of WWII. He married A. Joanne Galloway...