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  • Alumnus Jack Welch, former General Electric CEO and chairman, dies at 84

    Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm2015 views

    John Francis “Jack” Welch Jr., 84, the former CEO and chairman of General Electric Co., has died. He was a chemical engineer who earned a Ph.D. in 1960 in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Deaths

    Jul 25, 2019 3:30 pm2563 views

    Dolores Jane Byers ... Martin Joseph Knanishu ... Warren C. McCarty ... Kurtis Isaiah Pealer ... Patricia Eileen Price ... Selma Katharine Richardson ... Grace Christine (McCormick) Prestin Samford ... Winton U. Solberg

  • Deaths

    Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm499 views

    Phyllis Gordon ... Richard H. “Dick” Howard ... Paul Dale Shaw

     

     

     

     

  • Deaths

    Jun 28, 2019 11:45 am477 views

    Roy O. Walker Jr.

  • Deaths

    Jun 20, 2019 11:30 am326 views

    Annie “Anne” Laura Eckerty ... Peter G. Martens

  • Deaths

    Jun 13, 2019 2:15 pm302 views

    Amy M. Blue-Short ... Joyce A. Butsch ... Kenneth Morris Davidson ... Virginia Guthrie ... Jean M. Jessee ... Ralph A. Smith ... William Murphy Tilton ... Harry C. Triandis ... Sherry Marie Weaver ... Jefferey “Jeff” Allen Welch

  • Deaths

    Jun 6, 2019 1:30 pm203 views

    John C. Hough Jr. ... Janet D. Knesek (nee Scott) ... Joseph “Joe” Konitzki ... Richard Newport Wright III 

  • Deaths

    May 30, 2019 11:30 am272 views

    John “Jack” L. Hayes Jr. ... Wilma J. Parsons ... Jim Schuster

  • Deaths

    May 24, 2019 1:00 pm114 views

    Katharine “Kay” Oline Aston ... “Carol” Margadene Bateman ... Lucille “Lucy” L. Finn ... Joseph A. Garza ... Gerald “Jerry” E. Miner Jr. ... Shirley Bash Rittenhouse ... Louis Allen Walthall

  • Deaths

    May 16, 2019 2:15 pm395 views

    Robert W. McCleary

  • Deaths

    May 9, 2019 2:30 pm294 views

    Janice Lynn Allen ... Donald Chien-Tao Chiang ... Doris M. Downs ... Max Elmer Reid ... Helen Louise (Camp) Ridlen

  • Deaths

    May 6, 2019 3:30 pm183 views

    Tom Battershell ... Jeannine W. Corlas ... Keith Randall Erickson ... Philip Clayton Mitchell ... Shirley J. Smith.

  • Deaths

    Apr 25, 2019 11:45 am338 views

    Louis H. “Bud” Mesker ... Darcy Elizabeth Strack

  • Deaths

    Apr 18, 2019 1:45 pm366 views

    Ronald L. Miner ... Charles Edward Olson ... James H. Wyatt Sr.

     

  • Deaths

    Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm640 views

    Janet Lynn “Jaelyn” Jefferson ... Sharon Jo Shiu

  • Deaths

    Apr 4, 2019 11:15 am368 views

    Manfred Raether ... Ralph Stoner Wolfe

  • Deaths

    Mar 29, 2019 10:45 am349 views

    Frank Gallo ... Charles E. “Charlie” Hartman ... Helen Wright

  • Deaths

    Mar 21, 2019 12:15 pm299 views

    Allan G. Mueller ... Stephen Steele Slivon

  • Deaths

    Mar 14, 2019 12:00 pm217 views

    Dick J. Albers ... Martha Baxter North

  • Deaths

    Mar 7, 2019 1:45 pm254 views

    Paul D. Bermingham ... William “Bill” G. Dean ... Arthur J. Harper ... Lois Ann Allhands Harpst

     

  • Deaths

    Mar 1, 2019 11:15 am220 views

    Paul A. Boatman ... Marcel Franciscono

  • Deaths

    Feb 25, 2019 2:00 pm275 views

    Lois B. Guiher

  • Deaths

    Feb 14, 2019 12:30 pm326 views

    Roberta A. May ... James (Jim) P. Warfield

  • Deaths

    Feb 7, 2019 2:30 pm385 views

    James W. “Jim” Chapman ... Willeta Mae Hassell Donaldson ... Elizabeth Fumiko Fujioka Easley ... Barclay George Jones ... Margaret “Eileen” Lyons ... Shirley Ann Perkins

     

     

  • Deaths

    Feb 1, 2019 1:30 pm269 views

    Wanda Elliott ... Norma Yvonne (Creekmur) Jackson

     

  • Deaths

    Jan 24, 2019 12:45 pm748 views

    Edward J. Armbrust ... Paul P. Bernard ... Richard “Don” Donald Brown ... Charles “Chuck” D. Elmer ... Barbara Ann Phillips ... Marilyn G. Vizek

  • Deaths

    Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am457 views

    Danny L. Elam ... Randall Joseph Lutz ... Glenn Gregory Simpson ... Kent Thompson

     

  • Deaths

    Jan 7, 2019 11:00 am281 views

    Edward E. Durbin ... Doris Patricia “Pat” Foster ... Judy Kurlakowsky ... Marjorie E. Nelson ... Frances Joann Pierce

  • Deaths

    Dec 13, 2018 12:30 pm705 views

    Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson

  • Deaths

    Dec 6, 2018 12:45 pm370 views

    William Curtis Blaylock ... Susan Blunier ... Paula Jo Goodwin ... Barbara Clarke Swain

  • Deaths

    Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm481 views

    Alva “Tad” LeRoy Addy ... Nancy J. Blackburn ... Belle Anna Brine ... John Roy Campbell ... Judith “Judy” Arlene Corray ... Terry Denny ... Marjorie Ellen (Keagle) Lange ... Alleta A. (Sue) Moore ... John (Jim) J.E. Mullen ... George Robert Young

  • Deaths

    Nov 15, 2018 11:30 am453 views

    James B. Sinclair

     

  • Deaths

    Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm542 views

    Stephen Mitchell ... Patsy R. Paye ... Alan Rankin ... Stanley James Rankin ... Arthur J. Slates ... Edward L. Young

  • Deaths

    Nov 1, 2018 12:45 pm307 views

    Kenneth Nelson Dugan ... Henry William Lippold ... Dr. Thomas N. “Doc” Monfort ... William “Harry” Soloman

  • Deaths

    Oct 25, 2018 3:15 pm328 views

    William Boyd Buck ... Emanuel “Manny” Donchin ... Les Gasser ... Marjorie Ellen “Marge” Gordon ... Alvin E. Gustafson ... Phillip I. Henson ... Matthew McClure ... Kurt A. Mitchell ... Pauline Rymer ... Rebecca J. Simon ... Bernard “Bernie” Daniel Taylor

  • Deaths

    Oct 18, 2018 2:30 pm300 views

    Charles “Chuck” Richard Kibler ... Jennifer Joy Loy ... Yoko Muroga (Nakamura) ... Pauline Rymer ... James Wilburn “Jim” Seets

  • Deaths

    Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm1001 views

    Rita Josephine Deters ... John L. Larson ... Marilyn Sue O’Hara ... Joseph H. Smith ... Gerald Durbin Wood ... David Zola

  • Deaths

    Sep 20, 2018 1:30 pm362 views

    Martha JoAnn Milligan ... Charles William (Bill) Smith

  • Deaths

    Sep 13, 2018 1:30 pm357 views

    Roy F. Block ... Carolyn Margaret (Rexroat) Dodd ... Mary Anne Hewing ... Timothy Gerard Hewing ... Raymond Ides ... David Kay ... Frederick “Fred” E. Payne ... Margaret R. Selin ... Joseph Tarbet Woolley

  • Nina Baym, pioneer in the study of American women writers, has died

    Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am2380 views

    Nina Baym, an internationally recognized scholar of American literature and a pioneer in the field of study of American women’s writing, has died.

  • Deaths

    Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am527 views

    Charles M. Brown ... Norman C. Maske ... Terry D. Moore ... Eris E. Ponsler ... Ruth E. Shull

  • Deaths

    May 31, 2018 11:15 am466 views

    Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White

  • Scott R. White, pioneer of self-healing materials, has died

    May 31, 2018 10:45 am4968 views

    University of Illinois aerospace engineering professor Scott R. White, an innovator of self-healing and self-regulating materials, died Monday of cancer at age 55.

  • Deaths

    May 24, 2018 4:15 pm539 views

    Daniel Lee Beckman ... Susan Kathleen Connelly ... Paul Krabbe ... Carolyn G. (Shaw) Mink ... Mete A. Sozen ... Marilyn Upah-Bant

  • Deaths

    May 10, 2018 1:45 pm641 views

    Richard E. Henderson ... Lois Evelyn Overmyer ... Christie Tucker

  • Deaths

    May 3, 2018 3:15 pm328 views

    Ray Boehmer ... Lawrence “Larry” Mervin Bowden ... Leo J. Clennon ... Dale F. “Marty” Eichelberger ... Robert “Bob” Allan Moff ... Christie Tucker ... Dan Weisman

  • Deaths

    Apr 27, 2018 11:00 am249 views

    Joseph Frederick Green ... Elmer Osterbur

  • Deaths

    Apr 19, 2018 2:30 pm343 views

    Richard Francis Earl Crang ... Donald Earl Hiner ... Thomas E. Jean ... Michael Earl Schlesinger ... Leonard “Lennie” Dean Seward Sr. ... Mary Sleator Temperley ... Cora L. Williams 

  • Deaths

    Apr 12, 2018 4:15 pm334 views

    Jennifer Kee Anderson ... Joel M. Dexter ... William H. “Doc” Pirkle ... Pola Fotitch Triandis 

     

  • Deaths

    Apr 6, 2018 11:00 am326 views

    Clinton Frederick Fink ... John T. Scott ... Helen T. Smith ... Al Ricco John Stasi