Funeral

John Kestel, who returned home from service in Vietnam on Christmas Eve 1967, has spent years working to benefit his fellow veterans.

Bosma-Renkes & Bosma-Gibson Funeral Homes will hold their annual Holiday Remembrance Program on Sunday, Nov. 10.

The firm is one of only three funeral homes internationally to receive the Best of the Best Award in 2024.

Joe Martin had served on the Sterling City Council as the city’s 4th Ward alderman since 1995, while also serving as vice mayor since 2007.

Lockport Township High School District 205 has shared a statement from the family of board member Dr. Sandra Chimon Rogers, sharing funeral arrangements.

The pictures that are said to depict the condition of the embalming room of the Moran Queen-Boggs Funeral Home in Centralia are shocking.

Thirteen Illinois Army National Guard Soldiers graduated from the Illinois Army National Guard’s Military Funeral Honors State Certification course Dec. 16 at Camp Lincoln, Springfield.

Veterans buried at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery receive final honors thanks to the dedicated volunteers of the cemetery Memorial Squad.

The cemetery along West Jefferson Street has been closed for weeks after storm damage.. People with grave sites who have died since the storm damage are being interred on a temporary basis.

The funeral for 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was held Monday afternoon. The Muslim community in the Chicago suburbs has been greatly shaken by the attack. “This heinous crime did not occur in a vacuum,” said Oussama Jammal, a board member for the Mosque Foundation.

Ruth Pullen passed in early March, but her family decided to have a celebration of life in early July.

Ruth Ann Pullen of rural Amboy had one last request, to be carried to her final resting place by a hayrack.

Instead of a funeral for Bryon golf superintendent, rounds of play benefit the Wee One Foundation

Planning and Zoning Commission member Rick Kuhn was absent from public hearing, but all other commission members voted positively on the motion to recommend village board approval of the permit request.

Thousands of law enforcement officials, first responders and family members filled Woodstock North High School on Wednesday morning as the funeral for fallen McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Keltner took place.