News Progress

Diane Hollonbeck

Diane Kay Hollonbeck, 67, of Sullivan passed away at 12:05 p.m. Friday, February 5, 2016 in Mason Point in Sullivan.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Sullivan. Burial was in French Cemetery in Allenville.

Diane was born September 12, 1948 in Decatur, a daughter of Hue Tim and Ruth Rosetta Moran Crowe. Diane worked for the Secretary of State in Springfield, GE in Mattoon and as a hairdresser. She was a member of New Life Church in Sullivan. She loved the elderly and loved to paint and sing. She also loved her nieces and nephews. Read More

Norma Fuller

Norma Jean Fuller, 93, of Sullivan, passed away at 9:21 a.m. Tuesday January 26, 2016 in St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur.

Private family burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. Arrangements are by Reed Funeral Home in Sullivan.  Read More

Don Marshall

Donald “Carrol” Marshall, 84, of Sullivan, passed away at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 30, 2016, in Mason Point in Sullivan.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today (Wednesday) February 3 in McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Sullivan. Visitation will be held from 10-11 a.m. Wednesday. Burial with military rites by Sullivan American Legion Post #68 will be in Greenhill Cemetery in Sullivan. Read More

Loren Jenne

Loren E. “Colonel” Jenne, 98, of Springfield, passed away at 8:15 am Tuesday, January 19, 2016 in the Regency in Springfield.

Loren was born Sept. 5, 1917 near Cadwell to Charles and Ella Collins Jenne. He moved with his family to Sullivan where he graduated from high school in 1935. He graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a B.S. in Education in 1940 and began his teaching profession in Alvin, Ill. This was interrupted by W.W. II when he was drafted in June 1941. He became an airplane mechanic and then went to OCS for pilot training in the Army Air Forces. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and was assigned as a First Lieutenant to fly B-25 Mitchell bombers in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. After completing 50 bombing missions, he returned to Sullivan in 1943 where he married Hazel J. Carnes Dec. 29, 1943 in the Sullivan United Methodist Church. Loren then resumed his teaching career at Jonathan Creek, Ill. country school and later in Sullivan. He was junior high school principal in Sullivan at Powers, Lowe and the Jr. High School in Sullivan and also served as the Moultrie County Treasurer.  Read More

Betty Gaston

Betty R. Gaston, 85, of Sullivan, died at 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, January 26, 2016, in Mason Point in Sullivan.

Private funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Lovins-Lockart Funeral Home in Windsor. Burial was in Ash Grove Cemetery.

She was born May 11, 1930 in Granite City, a daughter of Ben Boris and Gladys Sutton Rudanovich. She married Thomas A. Gaston September 20, 1947 in Sullivan, and he preceded her in death April 1, 1997. Read More