Delma “Kitty” Drumm, 74, of Grant Park, passed away Tuesday morning (April 28, 2009) at South Suburban Hospital, following a courageous battle with cancer.
A memorial service for Stephen D. Johnson, 55, of Dowling Park, Fla., formerly of Limestone Township, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 2, at the First Church of the Nazarene in Kankakee.
David J. Malinowski, 63, of Gardner, formerly of Chicago, died Tuesday (April 28, 2009) at his home.
Visitation for Sandra Ann Baron, 60, of Bourbonnais, will be from 4 p.m. Friday until the 7 p.m. services at the Bourbonnais Chapel of the Schreffler Funeral Homes.
Visitation for Perry J. Thurston, 82, of Kankakee, formerly of Manteno, will be from 9 a.m. Saturday until the 11 a.m. services at the Brown Funeral Home in Manteno.
• Thirty people took advantage of low-cost prescriptions when the “Help Is Here Express” bus stopped near St. Mary’s Hospital in Kankakee.
• Most of the 120 employees of American Spring Wire in Kankakee will be out of work by the end of today.
• A government watchdog group reports statistics today that show both Kankakee and Iroquois counties have higher rates of poverty.
WHO raises its pandemic alert for swine flu phase 5, one step short of a full pandemic.
Velma Louise McGreer Tucker, 70, of Milan, Tenn., formerly of Chicago Heights, died Monday (April 27, 2009) at St. James Hospital Vitas Hospice in Chicago Heights.
Clara W. Runck, 97, of Sheldon, died Monday (April 27, 2009) at Watseka Health Care Center.
A memorial visitation for Edwin Dale “Eddie” Smith, 29, of Kankakee, will be from 1 p.m. Friday until the 2 p.m. memorial service at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home, west Kankakee.
