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

  Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm4096 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.

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  Deaths

  Jul 25, 2019 3:30 pm2998 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

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  Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm632 views

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

   

   

   

   

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  Jun 28, 2019 11:45 am518 views

  Roy O. Walker Jr.

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  Jun 20, 2019 11:30 am349 views

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

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  Deaths

  Jun 13, 2019 2:15 pm348 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

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  Deaths

  Jun 6, 2019 1:30 pm226 views

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

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  Deaths

  May 30, 2019 11:30 am295 views

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

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  Deaths

  May 24, 2019 1:00 pm135 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

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  Deaths

  May 16, 2019 2:15 pm416 views

  Robert W. McCleary

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  May 9, 2019 2:30 pm305 views

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

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  Deaths

  May 6, 2019 3:30 pm202 views

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

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  Deaths

  Apr 25, 2019 11:45 am359 views

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

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  Apr 18, 2019 1:45 pm371 views

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

   

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  Apr 11, 2019 12:15 pm645 views

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

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  Apr 4, 2019 11:15 am380 views

  Manfred Raether ... Ralph Stoner Wolfe

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  Mar 29, 2019 10:45 am359 views

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

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  Mar 21, 2019 12:15 pm304 views

  Allan G. Mueller ... Stephen Steele Slivon

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  Mar 14, 2019 12:00 pm226 views

  Dick J. Albers ... Martha Baxter North

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  Deaths

  Mar 7, 2019 1:45 pm270 views

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

   

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  Mar 1, 2019 11:15 am225 views

  Paul A. Boatman ... Marcel Franciscono

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  Feb 25, 2019 2:00 pm278 views

  Lois B. Guiher

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  Feb 14, 2019 12:30 pm329 views

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

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  Feb 7, 2019 2:30 pm404 views

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

   

   

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  Deaths

  Feb 1, 2019 1:30 pm272 views

  Wanda Elliott ... Norma Yvonne (Creekmur) Jackson

   

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  Jan 24, 2019 12:45 pm762 views

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

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  Deaths

  Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am468 views

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

   

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  Deaths

  Jan 7, 2019 11:00 am287 views

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

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  Deaths

  Dec 13, 2018 12:30 pm712 views

  Sammy Ray “Sam” Sommer ... Kerrin Thompson

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  Dec 6, 2018 12:45 pm379 views

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

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  Nov 29, 2018 1:15 pm503 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

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  Deaths

  Nov 15, 2018 11:30 am490 views

  James B. Sinclair

   

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  Nov 8, 2018 12:45 pm562 views

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

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  Deaths

  Nov 1, 2018 12:45 pm309 views

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

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  Deaths

  Oct 25, 2018 3:15 pm348 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

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  Deaths

  Oct 18, 2018 2:30 pm306 views

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

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  Deaths

  Oct 4, 2018 2:30 pm1045 views

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

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  Deaths

  Sep 20, 2018 1:30 pm362 views

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

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  Deaths

  Sep 13, 2018 1:30 pm397 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

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

  Jun 21, 2018 9:00 am2588 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.

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  Deaths

  Jun 7, 2018 11:30 am534 views

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

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  Deaths

  May 31, 2018 11:15 am472 views

  Tom Wyles Day ... Scott Ray White

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

  May 31, 2018 10:45 am5569 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.

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  Deaths

  May 24, 2018 4:15 pm550 views

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

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  Deaths

  May 10, 2018 1:45 pm653 views

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

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  Deaths

  May 3, 2018 3:15 pm352 views

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

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  Deaths

  Apr 27, 2018 11:00 am251 views

  Joseph Frederick Green ... Elmer Osterbur

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  Deaths

  Apr 19, 2018 2:30 pm353 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 

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  Deaths

  Apr 12, 2018 4:15 pm344 views

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

   

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  Deaths

  Apr 6, 2018 11:00 am338 views

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