Obituaries

Listed below are the obits published in the past month in the Astoria South Fulton Argus, in alphabetical order by issue. More recent obituaries are listed toward the top. Obituaries older than a month can be found by following the links below.*


JULY 24, 2024 ISSUE

		Larry Hopping Larry D. Hopping, 76, of Ipava died July 15, 2024, at Graham Hospital in Canton. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/24/2024

JULY 17, 2024 ISSUE

		Bernard Carr Bernard Roger Carr, 82, of Bushnell died July 12, 2024, at his residence. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/17/2024

		Viola Howe Viola Florene Howe, 93, of Havana died July 8, 2024, at Springfield Memorial Hospital surrounded by her family. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/17/2024

		Robert Skien Robert Duane “Bob” Skien, 67, of Table Grove died July 7, 2024, at his home. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/17/2024

JULY 10, 2024 ISSUE

		Johnnie Cripe Johnnie L. Cripe, 86, of Springfield died June 25, 2024, at St. John’s Hospital. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/10/2024

		Todd Kimbro Todd A. Kimbro, 58, of Astoria died at 10:12 p.m. July 1, 2024, at his home. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/10/2024

		Peggy Lascelles Peggy J. Lascelles, 80, of Ipava died at 4:32 a.m. July 5, 2024, at Courtyard Estates of Bushnell. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/10/2024

		Edward Prather Ed F. Prather, 58, of Astoria died in the early morning hours of July 6, 2024. He passed away at home in the care of his family. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/10/2024

		Carolyn Higgins Raymond Carolyn Lane Higgins Raymond, 86, of Macomb died July 6, 2024, at home. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/10/2024

		Steven “Tater” Snowden Steven Wayne “Tater” Snowden, 62, of rural Vermont died July 6, 2024, at OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home in Peoria. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/10/2024

JULY 3, 2024 ISSUE

		Charles “Chuck” Hopping Charles H. “Chuck” Hopping, 70, of Industry died at 9:08 a.m. June 24, 2024, at his home. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/3/2024

		Lenny Hughes Lenny Dean Hughes, 65, died June 26, 2024, surrounded by family at his home. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/3/2024

		Joann “JJ” Jacobus Joann “JJ” Jacobus, 88, of Canton died at 2:51 p.m. June 23, 2024, at Sunset Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Canton. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/3/2024

		Judy Servis Judy Abernathy Servis, 75, of Lakewood, Colo., died April 20, 2024, in Empire, Colo. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/3/2024

		V. Gaylene Stufflebeam V. Gaylene (Ring) Stufflebeam, 67, of Farmington died at 8:45 a.m. May 1, 2024, at The Loft Rehab and Nursing of Canton. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 7/3/2024

JUNE 26, 2024 ISSUE

		David Dainty David C. Dainty, 87, of Havana died at 5:15 p.m. June 21, 2024, at his home. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 6/26/2024

		Patricia Reid Patricia Leona Reid, 77, of Cuba died at 4:58 p.m. June 19, 2024, at her home. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 6/26/2024

		Norma “Jeanie” Thompson Norma Jean “Jeanie” Thompson, 83, of Marietta died June 23, 2024, at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield. Published in the Astoria South Fulton Argus on 6/26/2024

Submitting an Obituary

If you would like to submit an obituary, there is no fee. You can download our obituary submission form HERE. The file is a PDF document that you can fill out and return electronically. To open the file, you will need the free Adobe Reader software. If you have a photo, you can attach it to the email when you return the form. For more information on submissions to the Argus, please click HERE.

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Finding an Archived Obituary

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

To find an archived obituary, click above on the first letter of their last name. Maiden names and additional married names will be cross-referenced with married names at the time of death, so try whichever name you know. If you don't find a name at first, please come back to our site another time and try again. This is a long-term archival project and will continually be updated as we have the time to do so. Our obituary record index currently goes back to Jan. 1914. We also have access to microfilm covering older obituaries beginning in 1886, and some of those obituaries are also being added as time permits. You can email us at argus@kkspc.com with any obit requests for obituaries you do not yet find here. PLEASE NOTE: We are missing microfilm for the year between Aug. 23, 1939-Aug. 28, 1940. We are also missing microfilm for the year between Aug. 1949-Aug 1950.

Any issues from June 1910 up to Jan. 29, 1930, were called The Argus-Search Light. Beginning on Feb. 5, 1930, the name was tweaked to The Argus-Searchlight. "Astoria" was added to the name sometime after that, to be called The Astoria Argus-Searchlight (Laura's note - I will add that date here once I determine the exact date), which remained the name up to and including the Nov. 6, 1974 issue. Papers after that date were published under the The Astoria South Fulton Argus name when The Astoria Argus-Searchlight combined subscribers with The Table Grove Herald.

CLICK HERE for the Master List (Jan. 5, 1914 - current)

We have compiled a master list of all obituaries beginning Jan. 5, 1914, to the current week. The list is organized alphabetically by most recent surname, and summarizes each person's name(s), age, death date, and town of residence at the time of death if available. This can aid you in narrowing down the issue of the Argus in which the obituary was published. Please click HERE to access the master list. Please note that there are now a number of obituaries older than 1914 available; if you are looking for an older obit, check our index and see if we have added them yet.

Obituaries may be available in full online; if so, they are marked (FULL OBIT) in the index. You can access these by clicking on the words "(FULL OBIT)." We currently have all obits from 1995 to the present completed. For obits older than 1995, only the estimated year of publication is listed on the surname pages until they are added to the archive.

Item of note: There are a number of local towns — such as Vermont, Cuba, Tennessee, Washington — that may appear to be states or countries to a researcher not familiar with the area. In this index, place names are assumed to be in Illinois unless otherwise noted.

As we continue adding older obituaries to our online collection, we have run across some that are only short death notices. They contain limited information, but we are including them, marked as "(BRIEF OBIT)", as they can occasionally help with genealogy research.

Back issues of the Astoria South Fulton Argus are available for sale for a year following publication. Older issues are available for viewing on microfilm at the Schuyler Jail Museum and Genealogical Center in Rushville or the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield. For more information, please click HERE.

We have also been adding a few additional obituaries that were not originally published in the Argus, but by other publications in the area. They have been compiled by Marilee Griffin and Lonnie Weinstein, who have relatives in the area. We will attribute the original publication in these cases when we can, so that you know the original source. We appreciate their offer to help round out the genealogical record for researchers.

Where possible, we are cross-referencing information from the Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index, in order to have more complete information listed, especially for those obituaries or death notices that are very short.

*Note: Our online obituary archives are incomplete due to the fact that this is an ongoing project. Most obituaries older than 1995 are not yet available in full online, although we have been adding older obits as time allows (including obits older than 1914). The obituary archive index covers from 1914 to the present, and is sorted alphabetically by last name (at the time of death) rather than by death date to make it easier to use. In addition, we are in the process of indexing all surnames on their own individual pages (this task is not fully complete yet). If you are searching for an obituary listing and cannot find it, please email us at argus@kkspc.com and we can look it up for you. ALSO: We have discovered there are a number of obituaries from the mid-20th century that are not listed in the master index; perhaps they ran in a correspondent's column rather than on the front page, and thereby got missed by the indexers from that era. If you don't see a name you expect to see in the master index, contact us with the death dates and we can look closer at those issues to see if they turn up.