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

    Mar 2, 2020 1:45 pm1946 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.

  • Bob Reid, influential journalism professor at Illinois, dies at age 64

    Dec 15, 2004 9:00 am1326 views

    Robert D. Reid, a recently retired professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, suffered a heart attack and died early today at his home in Champaign. He was 64.

     

  • Chemist Kenneth L. Rinehart dies at 76

    Jun 14, 2005 9:00 am133 views

    CHAMPAIGN -Kenneth L. Rinehart, a chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was internationally known for his research on organic compounds involved in biological activity, died Monday at his Urbana home after a long illness. He was 76.

  • David L. Swanson, associate provost at Illinois, dies at age 60

    Nov 1, 2004 9:00 am171 views

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - David L. Swanson, the associate provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, died early today of a heart attack at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. He was 60.

  • Deaths

    Jan 5, 2017 3:45 pm311 views

    Betty Jo Brown ... Richard A. Collier ... Elaine Burris “Granny” Cornwell ... Leland “Lee” E. Eversole ... Richard A. Garves ... Mary Margaret Graham ... George E. Gravely ... Beverly Ann Greger ... Cheryl O. Hedrick ... George “Bullet” Russell ... Ronald Eugene Schaede ... Russell E. Winterbottom

  • Deaths

    Jan 5, 2018 8:45 am304 views

    Jeanne Synon Folts ... Marjory A. Hudson ... David Bruce Langendorf ... David B. “Dave” Lawrence ... Eva Claire Rosenfield

  • Deaths

    Jan 7, 2016 3:00 pm559 views

    Paulette J. (Kaminski) Graziano … David H. Offner … Loren W. Wardlow … and Memorial Service: Elizabeth Kelly-Fry

  • Deaths

    Jan 7, 2019 11:00 am280 views

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

  • Deaths

    Jan 11, 2019 8:30 am457 views

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

     

  • Deaths

    Jan 12, 2018 11:30 am429 views

    Elizabeth “Betty” Jeanette Baniassadi ... Edward Eugene Jones ... Rosanne Janice Koehler ... Helen Lucille Wheatley

  • Deaths

    Jan 14, 2016 10:30 am1095 views

    Nancy Abelmann … James E. Barden Sr. … Dr. Sol Barnett … Diana Jane Fillenwarth Ganley … Lois J. Seibold … Dominic O. Skaperdas and Memorial services: Verlin B. “Andy” Anderson … Martha Rae Swartz Barbee … Alfred “Bud” Cler

  • Deaths

    Jan 17, 2017 4:30 pm319 views

    Charlotte Jane (Honn) Brownfield ... Mary L. Giles ... Margaret McLaren Jensen ... Martin L. Maehr ... Robert J. Nelson ... Dorothy Ann (Sturdivant) Schoeps

  • Deaths

    Jan 19, 2018 11:00 am402 views

    Rosalee June Cobb ... Margie “Pud” Eastin ... Belva M. Edwards ... Joe B. Vermillion Jr.

  • Deaths

    Jan 21, 2016 9:00 am913 views

    John R. Dahl … Malcolm Gale Davis … Beverly D. Rodriguez

  • 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 25, 2018 10:45 am400 views

    Rick Frederick ... Frank M. Williams

  • Deaths

    Jan 26, 2017 3:15 pm323 views

    Cody A. Breitenfeldt ... Hazel C. Cacioppo ... David M. Grothe ... Luther H. Holmes ... David F. Mulliken ... Dan White

  • Deaths

    Jan 28, 2016 9:00 am1005 views

    Sorab Pirozshah Mistry

  • Deaths

    Feb 1, 2018 4:15 pm275 views

    Robert J. Cheek ... Alfred Wilhelm Hubler ... Kenneth Earl Raymond

  • Deaths

    Feb 1, 2019 1:30 pm269 views

    Wanda Elliott ... Norma Yvonne (Creekmur) Jackson

     

  • Deaths

    Feb 2, 2017 3:30 pm157 views

    Robert C. Corum ... Charles M. Draper ... Norma Bartholomew Kent 

     

  • Deaths

    Feb 4, 2016 9:00 am1057 views

     Ernest Dawn

  • Deaths

    Feb 7, 2019 2:30 pm384 views

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

     

     

  • Deaths

    Feb 8, 2018 1:45 pm178 views

    Robert Duane Mackey ... Kevin Daniel Peterson ... James Richard "Dick" Teague

  • Deaths

    Feb 9, 2017 11:45 am164 views

    Lawrence Bouton

  • Deaths

    Feb 11, 2016 9:00 am780 views

    Douglas Einar Applequist … Beth E. Morrison Carbonneau … Albert Ehmen … Joan L. Mitchell … Jared Cleveland Risken

  • Deaths

    Feb 14, 2019 12:30 pm326 views

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

  • Deaths

    Feb 15, 2018 2:00 pm457 views

    Donna Kuhlman ... Elsie Willfong ... John E. Zehr

  • Deaths

    Feb 16, 2017 3:45 pm165 views

    Robert J. Carr ... Linda Kay Jenkins ... Brenda Ann Le’Noir ... John O. Marxmiller ... Adlon Dohme Jorgensen Rector ... Paul Stone ... Patricia Ruth Gueritey Weston 

     

     

     

  • Deaths

    Feb 17, 2017 2:00 pm170 views

    Allan Paul

  • Deaths

    Feb 18, 2016 9:00 am170 views

     Marilyn E. Adleman … Daniel Bowers Kennedy … Jeff D. Kindhart … Theo “Bow” Oliver

  • Deaths

    Feb 22, 2018 2:45 pm522 views

    Marilois Barker ... Donald “Don” Lee Day ...Steven J. D’Urso ... Charles Walter “Erik” Eriksen ... Jack Theodore Harroun ... C. Rex Mahannah ... Kenneth Neil Statzer

  • Deaths

    Feb 23, 2017 1:15 pm279 views

    Peter James Garlick ... Sheldon Ward Williams

  • Deaths

    Feb 25, 2016 9:00 am530 views

    John W. Andresen … Gerald Brighton … Artha L. Chamberlain … Margaret Ann Harsacky … Martin Donald Ignazito … Plessa Edward Mast … Frederick A. Rodgers … Joseph T. Verdeyen; and Memorial service for Frances Jo Freeman Crawford.

  • Deaths

    Feb 25, 2019 2:00 pm275 views

    Lois B. Guiher

  • Deaths

    Mar 1, 2018 3:15 pm294 views

    Thomas B. “Tom” Berns ... Richard “Dick” Blaney ... Karen M. Dudas

  • Deaths

    Mar 1, 2019 11:15 am220 views

    Paul A. Boatman ... Marcel Franciscono

  • Deaths

    Mar 3, 2016 9:00 am205 views

    Frederic Kris Lehman

  • Deaths

    Mar 7, 2017 11:30 am156 views

    Frances “Francie” Bridges ... Richard Charles Meyer ... John Thomas Pfeffer ... John Thompson

  • Deaths

    Mar 7, 2019 1:45 pm254 views

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

     

  • Deaths

    Mar 8, 2018 1:30 pm241 views

    Tom Percival ... Penny A. Watkins-Zdrojewski ... Robert J. Cheek

  • Deaths

    Mar 10, 2016 10:15 am544 views

    William Leno Anderson ... Gaylord Frederick ... Zoltan Ujhelyi

  • Deaths

    Mar 10, 2017 2:15 pm150 views

    Larry Dornhoff ... Willie T. Summerville

  • Deaths

    Mar 14, 2019 12:00 pm217 views

    Dick J. Albers ... Martha Baxter North

  • Deaths

    Mar 15, 2018 2:30 pm481 views

    Etha Jereen Broom ... Constance “Connie” Ellen Brown ... Carole Couch ... Sue Jones ... Maurice “Doc” Mecum ... Emily Ann Stipes Watts 

     

     

  • Deaths

    Mar 16, 2017 1:45 pm212 views

    Vivian Gladis Reid ... Thomas Dale “Tim” Roberts ... Russell E. Winterbottom

  • Deaths

    Mar 17, 2016 9:15 am656 views

    Frederic Magill Jenkins … Reiner "Tom" Zuidema
    Memorial Services: Bonnie B. Armbruster … Thomas S. Elliott … Frances M. Johnson.

  • Deaths

    Mar 21, 2019 12:15 pm298 views

    Allan G. Mueller ... Stephen Steele Slivon

  • Deaths

    Mar 23, 2018 12:15 pm696 views

    Joanne Daugherty Hayes ... Mildred Alene Maddock Landreth ... Vivian Phyllis Larson ... Michele Henriette Miller ... Rosemary Rutledge ... Nancy Jean Stark 

  • Deaths

    Mar 24, 2016 12:15 pm576 views

    Hillel V. Gauchman … John R. Shumard … Andrew “Tippy” Young Jr. III