Steven Hutchcraft
Steven “Hutch” Hutchcraft, 66, of Bethany, passed away at 9:22 p.m., Wednesday, October 25, 2023, in his home. Read More
Obituaries 10-25-2023: Brenda Phelps
Brenda Phelps
Brenda J. Phelps, 72, of Sullivan passed away Saturday, October 21, 2023, in her home. Read More
Obituaries 10-25-2023: Kathlene Hartman
Kathlene Hartman
Kathlene Hartman, 80, of Decatur passed away Friday, October 20, 2023, at Mt. Zion Health and Rehab in Mt. Zion. McMullin-Young Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Read More
Obituaries 10-18-2023: Timothy Rubush
Timothy Rubush
Timothy Wayne Rubush, 61, a resident of Belington, West Va., departed this life early Friday morning October 13, 2023, in the Ruby Memorial Hospital at Morgantown. Read More
Obituaries 10-18-2023: Jerry Lane
Jerry Lane
Jerry Martin Lane, 76, of Sullivan passed away at 9:23 a.m., Monday, October 16, 2023, at his home in Sullivan. Read More
Obituaries 10-18-2023: Doris Hilliard
Doris Hilliard
Doris D. Hilliard, 94, of Sullivan, passed away at 1:00 a.m. Thursday, October 12, 2023, in her residence with her beloved husband, Bob, by her bedside and her faithful dog, Billie Jo, curled up beside her. Read More
Obituaries 10-11-2023: Ward Casteel
Ward Casteel
Ward Casteel, 71, of Lovington, passed away Friday October 6, 2023 in his residence.
Celebration of Life services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, October 12, 2023 in the Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. until service time on Thursday. Read More
Recent Obituaries: Ward Casteel
Ward Casteel
Ward Casteel, 71, of Lovington, passed away Friday October 6, 2023 in his residence.
Celebration of Life services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, October 12, 2023 in the Reed Funeral Home, Sullivan. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. until service time on Thursday. Burial will be in the Keller Cemetery, Lovington with military honors by the Lovington American Legion. Memorials are suggested to the Lovington Ambulance Service or to the Arthur Ambulance Service. Online condolences may be sent to the family at reedfuneralhome.net.
Ward was born August 15, 1952 in Decatur, the son of John Foster and Veda Marie Bolsen Casteel. Ward graduated from Lovington High School in 1970. He had been a livestock and grain farmer, a corrections officer for Moultrie and Douglas County and served as a Moultrie County Auxiliary Deputy. Ward retired from Firestone in Decatur. Ward was a lifetime member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America, the Lovington American Legion, the Lake Fork Sportsman Club and was a Moultrie County Republican Precinct Committeeman. Ward was a veteran of the U. S. Army Reserves in Decatur. He married Carolyn Elliott on September 29, 1973 in Lovington, and they had been married 50 years and one week.
Surviving are his wife Carolyn of Lovington; daughters Rachel (Dr. Paul) Marx of Sullivan, Ryan (Brent) Wildman of Mattoon and Ranee (Robert) Kidd of Sullivan; grandsons Brycen Wildman and Kolten Kidd; brother Berle (Linda) Casteel of Lovington; nephews Luke, Brock and Derk Casteel; mother-in-law Aileen Elliott of Arthur and brother-in-law David (Natalie) Elliott of Lovington and niece Bailey Peadro.
He was preceded in death by his parents, father-in-law Willie B. Elliott and sister-in-law Patti Elliott.
Obituaries 10-4-2023: Gene Wirth
Gene Wirth
Gene L. Wirth, 87, of Sullivan, passed away at 1:23 p.m., Friday September 29, 2023, in Sullivan Rehabilitation and Health Care Center. Read More
Obituaries 10-4-2023: Thomas Winings
Thomas Winings
Thomas Raglan Winings passed away peacefully September 23, 2023, at age 79 from Parkinson’s Disease. He was born the second of three children June 26, 1944, in Decatur, Illinois to Ernest and Mary Winings. Tom grew up on a dairy farm in Lovington, Illinois. He learned to work hard milking cows and planting, weeding, and harvesting soybeans, corn, oats, wheat, and hay with his father and older brother. Read More