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Deaths

Marilyn E. Adleman, 81, died Feb. 12 at Presence Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. She worked at the U. of I. for 27 years, retiring as a typing clerk III for the School of Music in 1998. Memorials: Sinai Temple.

Daniel Bowers Kennedy, 69, died Feb. 11 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. He worked at the U. of I. from 1989 to 2008 and then from 2012-13. He was an adjunct professor and an adjunct lecturer for the School of Social Work. Memorials: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Jeff D. Kindhart, 51, died Feb. 8 at his home in Grantsburg, Illinois. He was an academic senior research horticulturalist for the U. of I. Dixon Springs Agricultural Center. He started in 1990 as a horticulturalist for the center and became an independent research specialist in 1992. Memorials: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1905, or to an educational fund for Kindhart’s children sent to Bailey Funeral Home, P.O. Box 695, Vienna, IL 62995.

Theo “Bow” Oliver, 91, died Feb. 8. She worked at the U. of I. for 32 years, retiring in 1992 as a natural science laboratory assistant for veterinary pathobiology.



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