Ralph G. Lockwood, 76, of McLeansboro, and a former Kankakee area resident, died Monday (Oct. 26, 2009) at the McLeansboro Health Care Center.
Mary Eileen Summers, 88, of Herscher, formerly of Plainfield, died Tuesday (Oct. 27, 2009) at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood.
Dorthy Jean Hendricks, 59, of Rankin, died Monday (Oct. 26, 2009) at her home.
Paul J. Schook, 77, of Odell, formerly of Dwight, died Sunday (Oct. 25, 2009) at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington.
• Danforth Grade School students will encounter a new fresh, look when they return to school today. It was closed because of high number of flu cases.
• The 2009 Cookbook is in today’s newspaper. New this year is a category for kids and tips from the judges on how to win next year’s contest.
• It looks like any changing of the women’s soccer guard in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference will have to wait until at least November.
John Michael Mazur, 69, of Kankakee, died Friday (Oct. 23, 2009) at 8:25 a.m. in Bourbonnais.
Betty Lucille Albright Ruder, 84, of Fort Morgan, Colo., formerly of Donovan, died Thursday (Oct. 22, 2009) at her daughter’s home in Fort Morgan.
Dorothy Louise Mathis, 85, of Kankakee, died Saturday (Oct. 24, 2009) at Provena Our Lady of Victory in Bourbonnais, following an extended illness.
Marie French, 93, of Olney, formerly of Momence, died Oct. 17, 2009.
Donna Blanche Stevens Manns, 87, of Bourbonnais, formerly of Rensselaer, Ind. and Manchester, Tenn., died Sunday (Oct. 25, 2009) after an eight-month illness.
