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JG-TC I www.jj-tc.com AREA DEATHS Donald Binnion SIIELBYVILLE Donald E. "Benny" Binnion, age 75, of Shelbyville, IL, formerly of Mat- children. He loved a good day of fishing, tinkering on anything with a motor, and trying his luck with a good hand of poker. He was a member of the Shelbyville VFW Post 4829 and the Mattoon Fraternal Order of Eagles lodge 3438. The family requests casual attire All donations can be made to the family in care of Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home, 1200 Wabash Avenue, Mattoon, EL 61938.

Please visit www.mitchell-jer-dan.com to light a virtual candle in his honor or share a memory with his family. To sign the online guestbook, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries. Wabash Avenue, Mattoon, IL 61938. Rev. Brian Miller will officiate Burial will take place in Stewardson Cemetery, Steward-son, EL.

Benny was born May 25, 1936, in Mattoon, IL, son of the late Archie and Muriel (Merle Jordan) Binnion. He is survived by his seven loving girls, Sherry Prather, Wanda Harding, and Merle Gar-mon, all of Shelbyville, EL, Anna (husband Ralph) Connelly of Mattoon, EL, Anita (husband, Keith) Marcum of Milford, EL, Rose (husband Jaime) Garza of Shelbyville, EL, and Cassandra Bloxom of Mattoon, EL; One brother, Maurice (wife, Jennie) Binnion of Shelbyville, EL; One half-sister, Janet Lee Maulding, of Rantoul, IL; 19 grandchildren; three step grandchildren; 26 great grandchildren; and four step great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. He also leaves behind two very special friends, Teri Gordon and her son Tyson, of Shelbyville, EL; and his faithful companion, Blonde Dog. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, Howard Binnion, one sister Ethal Smith, one step sister, Linda Kay Binnion, and two grandsons. Benny enjoyed spending time with his loving family and friends, especially his children, grandchildren, and great grand sisters Wanda Hawes of Greenup, Rose Eggers of Greenup, Dixie Seiler of Toledo, Kaye Byrnes and Ann Trostle both of Jewett; one brother Terry Houser of Toledo.

Numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Bernie Gene Houser, Charles "Bud" Houser, Victor Houser and Harold "Butch" Houser; Sisters Evelyn Matteson, Shirley Stanley and Sue Starwalt. Faye worked at Ettelbrick Shoe Factory in Greenup and E.R. Moore in Newton for many years. Memorials in her name can be made to Lincolnland Hospice.

On Line condolences can be expressed at www.barkleyfuneralchapelsx om. To sign the online guest-book, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries. Ethel Warner GREENUP Ethel Faye Warner, 72, of Greenup, IL passed away at 6:08 am on March 22, 2012 at her residence. Memorial graveside services will be at 2:00 Sunday March 25, 2012 at the Greenup Cemetery. Barkley Funeral Chapel in Greenup is assisting the family.

She was born on May 5, 1939 in Hidalgo, IL the daughter of Bernie Marjorie (Bell) Houser. She married Don Warner on July 9, 1986. Surviving is her husband, sons Guy "Chip" Adamson, Bobby Adamson (Bridgette) and John Warner and special friend Sandra Parks all of Greenup, IL; daughters Kandice "Candy" Highfill (Jack) of Elizabethtown, EL, Nancy Warner and Stephanie Warner both in California; Charlene Lowry MATTOON Charleen Fern (Gwinn) Lowry, Mattoon, passed away on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at The Odd-Fellow Rebekah Home in Mattoon. Graveside services honoring her life will be held at 1:00 p.m. today, Saturday, March 24, 2012 in the Dodge Grove Lowry Cemetery with Reverend Ken Hutchens officiating.

The Schilling Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Charleen was born on April 27,. 1929 in Mattoon the daughter of Ted Sr. and Helen (Louthan) Gwinn. She married Merle Lowry on June 21, 1952.

Survivors include her husband, Merle Lowry of Mattoon; sons, Kent Lowry and wife Jean of Mattoon; Keith Vickie McCall MATTOON Vickie L. McCall, age 51, of Mattoon, EL, died at 3:43 a.m., Friday, March 23, 2012, at her home, 11 surrounded I by her loving I family. The family invites the I I public to a dinner in her honor that will be held McCall from 4 6 p.m., Sunday, March 25, 2012 at the American Legion Post 88, Mattoon, IL. Vickie was born November 17, 1960, in Mattoon, IL, daughter of the late Victor and Jessie (Bruner) McCall. She is survived by her boyfriend Shane Bass; her loving daughter, Brandy French (Chris Boyer) of Mattoon; two brothers, Chris Betty Bowman of Toledo; sons Gordon Bohannon of Anniston, Alabama, Mike Bohannon and Scott Bohannon both of Effingham; brother Robert wife Cheryl Ragon of Hazel Dell; grandchildren Dustin Bohannon of Charleston, Luke Bohannon of Columbia, MO, Emma Bohannon of Effingham, Vance Bohannon of Marshall, Brittany Stewart of Springfield, Amber, Katie and Patrick Roan of Toledo.

Betty was a homemaker and was a Liheap clerk for E.R.B.A. in Greenup, she was a member of the Hazel Dell Church of Christ, and Greenup industries, and for many years was an active member of the Cumberland Sports Boosters. Memorials can be made to the Crossroads Cancer Center 905 Medical Park Dr. Effingham, IL 62401 or the Hazel Dell Church of Christ. On line condolences can be expressed at www.barkleyfuner-alchapels.com.

To sign the online guest-book, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries. friends say "Ml K- 4 fy i he never picked fight TOLEDO Betty L. Bowman, 87, ot Toledo died at 11:35 a.m. Friday (March 23, 2012) at Odd Fellow-Rebekah Home in Mattoon. Arrangements are incomplete at Barkley Funeral Chapel in Toledo.

Powell service MATTOON The graveside service for Helen Powell was Friday at Resthaven Memorial Gardens in Mattoon with the Rev. John Connett officiating. Schilling Funeral Home in Mattoon was in charge of the arrangements. Ms. Powell, 89, of Oklahoma City, formerly of Mattoon, died March 13, 2012, at Baptist Medical Center in toon, IL, passed away at 2:07 p.m., Thursday, March 22, 2012, at his daughter, Sherry Prather's house, surrounded by Binnion family and friends.

The visitation will be held Monday, March 26, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service at 12:00 noon, at Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home, 1200 Elizabeth Bohannon GREENUP Elizabeth Mae "Betty" (Ragon) Bohannon, 76, of Greenup, IL passed away at 7:52 pm on March 21, 2012 at her residence. Funeral services will be at 11:00 on Tuesday March 26, 2012 at the Bohannon Hazel Dell Church of Christ. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on Monday evening at the Barkley Funeral Chapel in Greenup, IL. Burial will in the Hazel Dell Cemetery.

She was born in Hazel Dell, IL on October 29, 1935 the daughter of Emyl Marcel Helena (Roberts) Ragon. She married Rayford "Ray" Bohannon on October 29, 1956 and he preceded her in September 1993. Surviving are her children, daughters Kim Brandt of Greenup, Lisa Roan Slain teen's BY CHRISTINE ARMARIO Associated Press MIAMI Wearing a hoodie. Listening to music and talking on his cellphone. Picking up Skittles for his soon-to-be stepbrother.

Friends say that's how they would have imagined 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a Sunday afternoon. Starting a fight? Possibly high on drugs and up to no good? No, friends say that description of Martin from the neighborhood crime-watch volunteer who shot and killed the unarmed black teenager doesn't match the young man they knew. "There's no way I can believe that, because he's not a confrontational kid," said Jerome Horton, who was one of Martin's former football coaches and knew him since he was about 5. "It just wouldn't happen. That's just not that kid." Martin was slain in the town of Sanford on Feb.

26 in a shooting that has set off a nationwide furor over race and justice; Neighborhood crime-watch captain George Zimmerman, whose father is white and mother is Hispanic, claimed self-defense and has not been arrested, though state and federal authorities are still investigating. Since his death, Martin's name and photographs in football jerseys, smiling alongside a baby, and staring into the camera in a gray hoodie have been held up by civil Dementia's BY MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press LEESBURG, Fla. Doreen Watson-Beard cared for more people with dementia than she could count. The nurse was so moved by her patients that she led Alzheimer's support groups. She knew the warning signs and understood there was no cure.

But the 49-year-old never thought the disease would affect someone her age. The first clues surfaced around five years ago, when she was 44. She'd forget to pick up her grandchildren at school or plans she made with her husband. She wrote down the wrong medication dosage for a patient. "I have no idea what's going on," she remembered telling her doctor.

About 200,000 Americans under 65 are among the 5.4 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association. Experts' esti- J- 1 1 if Stuck with high gas prices, drivers just pumping less Lowry and wife Terri of Alta-mont; grandchildren, Kyle Lowry; Shannon Lowry both of Mattoon; Kollin Lowry; Danielle Lowry both of sister, Kathleen Fisher of Lerna and sister-in-law, Catherine Gwinn of Mattoon She is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Charleen was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Ted Gwinn brother-in-law, Merrell "Fish" Fisher. Charleen was employed at First National Bank of Mattoon. She later worked as a secretary for Community Unit 2 and Lakeland College.

Charleen enjoyed bowling, roller skating and ice skating in her earlier years. Most of all she loved spending time with her family. In lieu of flowers memorial donations in her honor are suggested to First United Methodist Church, 1601 Charleston Avenue, Mattoon, IL. 61938. To sign the online guest-book, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries.

father, a truck driver, were active in the Miramar Optimist Club, an organization that runs sports and academic programs for young people. Tracy Martin, the teen's father, coached his son's football team. The boy was a swift athlete, according to a friend, and played a range of positions up to about age 14. After he stopped playing, he remained active in the organization, volunteering six days a week from June through November of last year to help run the team's concession stand. Martin cooked hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken wings alongside his father at the stand.

He loved talking to the kids, asking them what position they played and whether they were good, Horton recalled. He would call the mothers "Ma'am," and if they -had a stroller or an item they needed help with, Martin stepped in. "Everyone out there loved him, Horton said, Martin was tall and lanky only 140 pounds, according to the family's attorney and -his nickname was "Slimm." The teen spent a big part of his week living with his father in a one-story, peach-colored home. Neighbor Fred Collins Jr. said he would see Trayvon Martin outside every week mowing the lawn and trimming the trees.

The teen also helped Collins' son learn how to ride a bike. stereotypes Another time, she wrote down the wrong dosage of a medication on a patient's discharge plan luckily, that mistake was caught by a pharmacist. Worried someone might be harmed, she went to the doctor. She was informed she had dementia, though her doctor has not yet classified it more specifically as Alzheimer's, dementia's most common form. She was told to prepare for the future "You might need to get some things in order," Watson-Beard remembers being told.

Dr. Marc Agronin, a geriatric psychiatrist at Miami Jewish Health Systems and author of "How We Age," says symptoms of dementia in a younger patient can be glaring. But diagnosis is often complicated by the fact that it's so uncommon in younger patients and that so many other conditions could cause the symptoms. Martin of Tempe, AZ, and Randy (wife, Lek) McCall, of Peoria, AZ; one sister, Debbie (husband Kent) Spencer, of Sullivan, IL; three grandchildren, Amber French, Adam French, and Trevor Long; her best friends, Carol (husband Len) Poffinbarger and Jane Jones. She also leaves behind her beloved cockatiel, Socrates.

Vickie loved cooking and spending time with her friends. She enjoyed summer and feeling the warmth of the sun on her skin. Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home, 1200 Wabash Avenue, Mattoon, EL 61938, is assisting the family with funeral arrangements. Please visit www.mitchell-jerdan.com to light a virtual candle in her honor or share a memory with her family. To sign the online guest-book, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries.

University energy expert Ken Medlock says. Americans have cut back on fill-ups for extended periods before. In 2008, gas spiked from $3.04 to $4.11 per gallon in seven months. It wasn't until January 2009, when the national average for gas had dropped to $1.86 that consumption increased. Drivers bought more gasoline for 23 weeks in a row.

"The spike in 2008 was a real shock to the system," Medlock says. "There's still a residual impact on people's driving behavior." There were other stretches of reduced gas use, notably two into the 1970's and one in the early 1980's. But in those cases, Americans eventually went back to driving big cars and trucks that guzzled gas. This time may be different. -Medlock thinks economic I growth will be too modest ZZ.

and gas prices will stay too high for Americans to start driving more anytime soon. Economists expect the U.S. economy to grow 2.5 percent in 2012. PERSONALS Card ot Thanks" WE WOULD LIKE TO thank everyone for the cards for our 60th anniversary. Thank you to our children grandchildren for a wonderful evening at The Beef House in Indiana.

Charles Martha Hood Memoriams 1 EN MEMORY OF Our Beloved Frankie who passed away 27 years ago today- March 24, 1985 The Moody Family AP PhotoAlan Diaz Michael M. Krop Senior High School students carry signs and chant during a rally demanding Justice for Trayvon Martin on Fri- day in Miami Gardens, Fla. rights leaders and at rallies stretching from Miami to New York demanding Zimmerman's arrest. On Friday, President Barack Obama called the shooting a tragedy, vowed to get to the bottom of the case, and added: "When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids." Since the slaying, a portrait TO "i has emerged of Martin as a laid-back young man who loved sports, was extremely close to his father, liked to crack jokes with friends and, according to a lawyer for his family, had never been in trouble with the law. The son of divorced parents, he grew up in working-class neighborhoods north of Miami's downtown.

He and his bering the exact time. Forget-fulness was one of her first symptoms; her husband would ask if she was ready to leave and she'd have no recollection they made plans. She became less socially conscious, hanging up abruptly with her boss in the middle of a conversation she thought was finished. She kept going to work at an assisted living facility near her central Florida home, while caring for her husband, who had Liver cancer. She dis-missed the symptoms as stress.

When her husband died about three years ago, the symptoms continued. She thought it was grief. But it wasn't getting better. "I thought if I ignored it long enough, it would go away," she said. Problems at work began cropping up, too.

Once, Watson-Beard couldn't figure out how to do a complicated wound dressing something she'd done many times before. youngest victims defy BY CHRIS KAHN AND TOM KRISHER Associated Press Writers Americans have pumped less gas every week for the past year. During those 52 weeks, gasoline consumption dropped by 4.2 billion gallons, or 3 percent, according to MasterCard SpendingPulse. The decline is longer than a 51-week slide during the recession. The main reason: higher gas prices.

The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.89, the highest ever for this time of year, and experts say it could be $4.25 by late April. As a result, Americans are taking fewer trips to restaurants and shopping malls. When they take a vacation, they're staying closer to home But the decline in gas consumption is also a sign that efforts to push carmakers to produce vehicles with better gas mileage are paying off. The average new car now gets nearly 24 miles to the gallon, compared with about 20 mpg just four years ago, according to the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute "I'd expect to see lower gasoline consumption for several years to come," Rice Obituary Policy The JG-TC prints two kinds of obituaries basic and custom. The newspaper has a standard format for basic obituary Information that is printed free of charge.

For those families who wish to Include additional information or "customize" an obituary, a foe will be charged. Call (217) 233-6059 before 4 p.m. Monday through Friday for Information. mates suggest there's a simi- lar number of younger people with other types of dementia, meaning about a half-million Americans, some as young as their 30s, suffer from early-onset or younger-onset dementia. The number of people suffering from all types of dementia is rapidly increasing because of the aging of the baby boom generation the 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 though there's no sign the percentage of younger people with dementia is going up.

Pat Summit, the 59-year-old Hall of Fame college women's basketball coach, is among the most famous to suffer publicly with it. Watson-Beard is one of a tiny minority, a fascinating, sorrowful subset to a disease trademarked by its slow, cruel overtaking of the mind. Watson-Beard says she was diagnosed two or three years ago; she has trouble remem-.