Tributes
Remembering those we’ve loved and lost March 1 - August 31, 2025
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Tributes
Obituary & Remembrance Tribute Feature
During a family’s time of sorrow, we want to reflect on the lives of those who have recently passed. The Daily Chronicle and daily-chronicle.com offer a special feature appearing twice a year to commemorate and honor those we have lost.
This edition provides a listing of those who have passed away in March, April, May, June, July and August 2025.
Tributes
AJoseph Andrew Almburg Sr., 88 Delavan, WI
February 17, 1937May 15, 2025
Betty L. Alsup, 79 DeKalb, IL
July 12, 1945April 29, 2025
Judith I. Anderson, 81 DeKalb, IL
January 28, 1944July 7, 2025
Patricia A. Anderson, 96 Kingston, IL
September 19, 1928March 25, 2025
Bessie Jane Andersen, 82 Fountain Inn, SC
September 28, 1942June 25, 2025
John “ilt” Anderson, 72 Creston, IL
October 9, 1952March 24, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Haakon L. Andreasen, 92 DeKalb, IL
June 7, 1932June 6, 2025
Christine Tranos Arhos, 93 DeKalb, IL
February 9, 1932June 20, 2025
Harold E. Bailey, 95 Cortland, IL
June 18, 1929February 20, 2025
David Orval Awe, 66 Hampshire, IL
January 1, 1959April 2, 2025
Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd.
Frank Paul Bazeli, 94 DeKalb, IL
January 15, 1931May 29, 2025
Ricky K. ‘Buck’ Beck, 73 DeKalb, IL
January 18, 1952March 17, 2025
Barby Belle Bafaro Borchardt, 72 Sycamore, IL
May 9, 1953July 17, 2025
Bonnie Benson, 81 Cortland, IL
October 31, 1943April 29, 2025
Mary M. Benson, 78 Cortland, IL
January 14, 1947April 2, 2025
Cremation Society of Illinois
Joan Benson, 62 DeKalb, IL
October 12, 1962August 20, 2025
Joan “JoAnn” A. Berg, 90 Malta, IL
January 27, 1935March 7, 2025
James “Jim”
Allen Beyer, 51 Maple Park, IL
January 20, 1974June 7, 2025
Gregory Scott Bidstrup, 61 Shabbona, IL
November 5, 1963April 29, 2025
Douglas C. Black, 79 DeKalb, IL
July 31, 1945March 13, 2025
Doris L. Bolander, 91 Sycamore, IL
July 1, 1933April 6, 2025
Jeremy Walter Bolisenga, 47 Birmingham, AL
May 27, 1978June 28, 2025
Farrell-HollandGale Funeral Home in Oregon, IL
Barbara Kukuck Brandon, 89 DeKalb, IL
February 19, 1936April 6, 2025
Belsur “Gene”
Eugene Bristow, 94 DeKalb, IL
July 14, 1930March 26, 2025
Elmer Rome Brown DeKalb, IL
Yolanda Marie
Butenas, 97
Fergus Falls, MN
November 16, 1927February 27, 2025
Waydene (Carney) Byrd, 96 Sycamore, IL
February 2, 1929July 13, 2025
Thomas D. Carey, 74 DeKalb, IL
March 16, 1950March 7, 2025 Anderson Funeral Home
Margaret L. Cotter, 89 DeKalb, IL
March 21, 1935March 15, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Donald L. Carpino, 88 Genoa, Formerly of Naperville, Wheaton and Melrose Park, IL
June 4, 1937July 31, 2025
Robert Gene Carr, 83 Ottawa, OH
July 10, 1942August 22, 2025
Danny D. Carson, 89 Maple Park, IL
June 27, 1935May 14, 2025
DDavid James Damiani, 68 Kirkland, IL
April 29, 1957July 19, 2025
John Allan Davis, 75 Ft. Myers Beach, FL
September 28, 1949 - A pril 10, 2025
Richard Raymond Davis, 94 Sycamore, IL
April 25, 1930April 14, 2025
Arthur “Art” Byro, 93
The Villages, FL
October 17, 1931June 21, 2025
CCarolyn F. Camp, 85 Sycamore, IL
September 20, 1939April 27, 2025
Lucille Campbell, 98
Sugar Grove, IL
October 2, 1926August 13, 2025
Olson Quiram Sycamore Chapel
Arlene L. Chambers, 88 Malta, IL
October 1, 1936August 5, 2025
Nelson Funeral Home
Nola Jane (Culver) Ciufo, 76 Seneca, SC
December 18, 1948May 17, 2025
Michael Constant, 78 Hinckley, IL
June 27, 1946May 20, 2025 Nash-Nelson Memorial Chapel
Patricia Ann Conway, 85 DeKalb, IL
August 6, 1940August 6, 2025
Robert Davis, 82 Kirkland, IL
January 19, 1943February 2, 2025
Jack A. Debolt, 87 DeKalb, IL
November 6, 1937August 1, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
James “Jimmy” Decker, 61 Elburn, IL
May 26, 1963May 11, 2025
Janet D. (Casaleggi) Dobson-Moore Poplar Grove, IL
May 6, 2025
Dan Drayton, 75 Palm Harbor, FL
June 23, 1949April 2, 2025
FEdwin “Morry” Drury, 89 DeKalb, IL
September 23, 1935August 18, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
EVirgil Elson, 86 Beloit, WI
April 1, 1938March 28, 2025
Robert “Bob” Emberson, 84 DeKalb, IL
November 7, 1940April 10, 2025
JoAnn Willis English, 92 Sycamore, IL
June 3, 1933July 24, 2025
Mark Allen Fagerstrom, 58 DeKalb, IL
June 7, 1966May 24, 2025
Michel Gibran Fawaz, 84
DeKalb, IL
November 5, 1940March 25, 2025
Jane Elizabeth Fay, 86 Waupun, WI
May 11, 1938March 11, 2025
Sharon Z. Fesler, 81 DeKalb, IL
September 18, 1943June 19, 2025
Helen Jean FitzPatrick Johns Creek, GA
Jodie L. Frieders Leland, IL
David Fultz, 82 Yorkville, IL
September 3, 1942June 20, 2025
Torman Funeral Home
GRoger Byron “Whitey” Garland, 82 DeKalb, IL
June 25, 1942April 6, 2025
Larry “Dean” Gibson, 78 Somonauk, IL
June 3, 1947June 14, 2025
Nelson Funeral Home
Randall Ray Gordon, 63 DeKalb, IL
September 24, 1961June 16, 2025
Shirley Anne Gustafson, 80 DeKalb, IL
December 4, 1944 - May 20, 2025
HSonja Ann Haeffner, 89 Geneva, IL
February 14, 1936April 11, 2025
Barbara Haile, 94 DeKalb, IL
September 1, 1930March 6, 2025
Noel Eugene Hayes, 89 DeKalb, IL
November 1, 1935April 10, 2025
Patrick J. Hickey, 82 DeKalb, IL
October 20, 1942March 23, 2025
Shirley A. Erickson, 91 DeKalb, IL
May 5, 1934May 12, 2025
Glen Mark Floyel, 72 Cortland, IL
October 12, 1952August 5, 2025
Robert A. “Bob” Gosnell, 78 DeKalb, IL
September 6, 1946March 6, 2025
Joan Maxine Horton, 91 Bayfield, CO
November 20, 1933June 13, 2025
Marilyn Joan Erion, 87 Sycamore, IL
July 31, 1937July 24, 2025
Mary Folowell, 70 DeKalb, IL
July 18, 1955August 11, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Paula Grimm, 75 Earlville, IL
August 7, 1949July 4, 2025
Torman Funeral Home
Joan Hoyt, 92 Clare, IL
July 15, 1932April 19, 2025
Olson Funeral and Cremation Services Ltd.
Orland Lavern
“Larry” Espe, 85 Huntington, WV
September 23, 1939July 28, 2025
Kathleen Marie Foster, 79 DeKalb, IL
July 19, 1945March 15, 2025
Sandra B. Gunther, 81 DeKalb, IL
July 1, 1943May 11, 2025
Tessa Dawn Hughes, 40 Dacula, GA
August 7, 1984June 26, 2025
JBeverly Mae Jahr
Murphy, 94 Sycamore, IL
July 5, 1931 - July 6, 2025
Glenn Jennings, 77 DeKalb, IL
July 11, 1947June 10, 2025
Betty J. Jespersen, 92 Sycamore, IL
November 8, 1932May 3, 2025
Olson-Quiram Funeral Chapel
Dale Leroy Johnson, 85 Sycamore, IL
November 6, 1939June 28, 2025
Olson Funeral and Cremation Services Ltd.
Donna Johnson, 78 DeKalb, IL
August 14, 1946June 3, 2025
Sharon Ann “Sandy” Johnson, 75 Waterman, IL
September 26, 1949June 9, 2025
Nelson Funeral Home
Arnold Pearson
Jones III, 72 DeKalb, IL
January 21, 1953July 5, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
KOwen Edward Kahle, 80 St. Charles, MO
November 4, 1944May 23, 2025
Marilyn Jean Karl, 85 Sycamore, IL
September 17, 1939July 14, 2025
David Leroy Kastler, 72 DeKalb, IL
January 4, 1953July 16, 2025
John (Jack) Keck, 80 DeKalb, IL
September 2, 1944March 14, 2025
Kenneth E. Keleher, 80 Sycamore, IL
July 12, 1944May 2, 2025
Darrel Kennedy, 71 Syamore, IL
February 6, 1954August 25, 2025
Daina Kizilbash DeKalb, IL
Betty Koehling, 92 DeKalb, IL
May 17, 1932March 20, 2025
Karen L. Koenig, 76 La Salle, IL
August 9, 1949August 13, 2025
Erving Kozlowski, 88 Kingston, IL
December 16, 1936July 10, 2025 Anderson Funeral Home
Brandon Scott Kunkel, 45 Madison, WI
September 13, 1979June 9, 2025
LJohn Austin Kerr, Jr. PhD, 91 DeKalb, IL
April 9, 1934April 17, 2025
Anna Rae Keutzer, 95 Rochelle, IL
November 22, 1929July 21, 2025
Diane Kittleson, 85 DeKalb, IL
November 12, 1940January 12, 2025 Anderson Funeral Home
Carolyn Ann Leifheit, 82 DeKalb, IL
December 19, 1942June 25, 2025
William Walter Lenschow, 93 DeKalb, IL
July 31, 1931March 2, 2025
Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd.
Lynn Levine, 79 DeKalb, IL
March 26, 1945March 13, 2025
Kenneth Irvin Liddick, 95 Waterman, IL
February 8, 1930April 19, 2025
Kurt Allen Liebhaber, 81 Sycamore, IL
July 8, 1943June 17, 2025
Gene R. Lane, 78 Kirkland, IL
April 20, 1947June 12, 2025
Loretta Littig, 76 Naperville, IA
March 16, 1949August 9, 2025
Heritage Funeral Home and Crey
Dolores M. Larson, 87 Shabbona, IL
December 19, 1937March 5, 2025
Torman Funeral Home
Michael D. Larson, 82 DeKalb, IL
March 2, 1943March 3, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Dr. Frank E. Luedtke, 93 DeKalb, IL
November 7, 1931March 1, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Annetta Lusiak, 108 DeKalb, IL
May 2, 1917 - May 6, 2025
MJohnita Maitland, 80
Largo, FL
April 11, 1945May 25, 2025
Catherine M. Meisch-Smith, 67 Belvidere, IL
June 14, 1958June 24, 2025
Ron Modell, 90 DeKalb, IL
November 11, 1934June 10, 2025
Roberta Niebergall, 103 Genoa, IL
June 6, 1922July 18, 2025
Anne Helen Manley, 90 Franklin Grove, IL
June 25, 1934March 2, 2025
Billy Wayne Marbutt, 90 DeKalb, IL
May 9, 1935 - June 4, 2025
Kenneth Mason, 80 Lincoln, NE
October 29, 1944June 30, 2025
John Joseph “Bud” McCabe, 94 Genoa, IL
August 23, 1930August 8, 2025 Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd.
Lois J. McFarren, 66 Moore Haven, FL
June 12, 1959August 1, 2025
Joyce E. Means, 85 DeKalb, IL
July 19, 1940July 25, 2025
Susan Thurow Metcalf, 73 Sycamore, IL
November 28, 1951March 21, 2025
Jack Michael, Jr., 81 DeKalb, IL
July 2, 1944August 12, 2025
Keith Mulligan, 89 Johnson City, TN
January 25, 1936February 18, 2025 N
David K. Mihm, 78
Franklin Grove, IL
December 3, 1946May 4, 2025
Nichele “Nici” Miller, 80 DeKalb, IL
October 21, 1944July 4, 2025 Gibson-Bode Funeral Home
William “Bill” Miser, 56 Rockford, IL
July 14, 1968April 4, 2025
Robert “Bob” Nelson, 89 DeKalb, IL
December 9, 1935April 18, 2025
Suzanne “Sue” Nelson, 90 Burr Ridge, IL
July 27, 1934June 14, 2025
Irene Della Nelson, 97 DeKalb, IL
March 1, 1928March 4, 2025 Anderson Funeral Home
Reuben Nelson, 73 DeKalb, IL
December 30, 1951May 15, 2025
Dr. Steven E. Nord, 75 DeKalb, IL
July 31, 1949May 10, 2025
Dale William Mitchell, 56 Sycamore, IL
Deacon Jim Newhouse, 81 Sycamore, IL
February 23, 1944March 22, 2025
OAnna Mae Olson, 85 Maple Park, IL
January 24, 1940March 15, 2025
Shirley M. Overton, 96 DeKalb, IL
May 10, 1928March 26, 2025
Thomas J. Overton, 80 DeKalb, IL
July 14, 1945August 2, 2025
PCharles Ronald “Ron” Packard, 78 Marble Hill, MO
February 20, 1947June 22, 2025
Anu Liisi Parts Crystal Lake, IL August 20, 2025
Glenn Arthur Meeter, 90 DeKalb, IL
May 4, 1934March 20, 2025
Jerold “Wick” Mitchell, 70 Hinckley, IL
November 2, 1954March 6, 2025 Torman Funeral Home
Bernadette Neylon, 96 DeKalb, IL
March 8, 1929August 8, 2025 Anderson Funeral Home
Cheryl Ruth (nee Rhoads) Payne, 93 DeKalb, IL
October 17, 1931February 25, 2025
Charles “Chuck” Peterson, 85 Kingston, IL
December 26, 1939May 1, 2025
Richard “Rick” Petruchuis, 60 Genoa, IL
April 12, 1965July 5, 2025
Arlene Petschke, 88 Hinckley, IL
March 17, 1937June 21, 2025
Nelson Funeral Home
Richard Pifko, 77 Holiday, FL
September 1, 1947June 27, 2025
Mary Powell, 85 Hinckley, IL
November 12, 1939June 3, 2025
Nelson Funeral Home
Joyce Marie Priebe Price, 71 Kirkland, IL
February 19, 1954May 12, 2025
Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd.
RRichard Lester Retrum, 85 DeKalb, IL
August 15, 1939May 25, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
James (Jim) Alan Rhoades, 75 DeKalb, IL
February 10, 1950March 30, 2025
Ronald John Riippi, Sr., 83 Carson City, NV
May 20, 2025
Patricia Schaefer, 75 Parrish, FL
November 26, 1949April 18, 2025
Dennis G. Schaffner, 76 Sycamore, IL
August 21, 1948March 29, 2025
Candi Judee Roinas, 77 Clearwater, FL
November 6, 1947July 16, 2025
Stacy Rummel, 65 Sterling, IL
May 8, 1959April 3, 2025
Marianne Schneider, 87 DeKalb, IL
April 16, 1938August 19, 2025
William J. “Bill” Schorsch Jr., 80 Sycamore, IL
August 17, 1944July 25, 2025
Pamela Slater, 76 Sycamore, IL
April 12, 1949August 18, 2025
SPhyllis Salemi, 76 Tampa, FL
April 3, 1948February 23, 2025
Bruce D. Rebhorn, 86 DeKalb, IL
October 13, 1938August 13, 2025
Dixie Lee Sanderson, 78 Humboldt, IL
August 23, 1946May 27, 2025
Lynda (Tucker/ Farris) Reshel, 70 DeKalb, IL
September 13, 1954June 7, 2025
Elizabeth Ann ‘Liz’ Sauber, 98 Sycamore, IL
April 11, 1927June 15, 2025
Olson Quiram Funearl Chapel
Edna Schramm, 91 DeKalb, IL
October 28, 1933March 11, 2025
Roger A. Scott, 78 DeKalb, IL
January 23, 1947February 23, 2025
Mildred C. Scott, 94 DeKalb, IL
February 27, 1931August 9, 2025 Anderson Funeral Home
Mary G. Simons, 90 Sycamore, IL
May 5, 1935May 26, 2025
Douglas Bates Smith, 91 Sycamore, IL
April 16, 1933November 17, 2024
Randy Alan Smith, 68 Sycamore, IL
January 13, 1957June 4, 2025
Sherman “Wayne” Smith, 82 DeKalb, IL
May 20, 1942April 20, 2025
Chester “Pete” Smith Jr., 74 Franklin Grove, IL
March 26, 1951July 2, 2025
Jones Funeral Home
Diane Stone, 93 Sycamore, IL
March 4, 1932June 10, 2025
Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd.
Lynda Carol Stroud, 85 Genoa, IL
February 27, 1940March 29, 2025
Robert Suddeth Sr., 87 Madison, WI
April 25, 1938June 20, 2025
Daniel E. Sullivan, 53
Sycamore, IL
July 14, 1971March 14, 2025
Kay F. Tripp, 84 Oregon, IL
March 6, 1941July 22, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Heidi Sweeney, 50
DeKalb, IL
December 31, 1974August 18, 2025
Olson Funeral & Cremation Services Ltd.
TAnnigje Talley, 79
DeKalb, IL
May 31, 1946June 1, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Richard H. Tempel, 67 DeKalb, IL
September 18, 1957May 27, 2025
Debra A. Terpin, 64
DeKalb, IL
November 30, 1960July 14, 2025
David Rodney Thomas, 78 DeKalb, IL
May 2, 1947May 21, 2025
Charles O. Thorsen, 90
Franklin Grove, IL
July 19, 1934April 6, 2025
Anderson Funeral Home
Janet L. Thurow, 97
Des Moines, IA
January 13, 1928August 10, 2025
Michael D. Wall, 70 Sycamore, IL
June 8, 1955July 18, 2025 Olson-Quiram Funeral Chapels
Donna Turner, 77 Cherry Valley, IL
February 12, 1948June 7, 2025
OLson Quiram Funeral Chapel
URichard W.
‘Dick’ Ubl, 92 Sycamore, IL
June 3, 1932 - May 7, 2025
Donald A. Weberpal Sycamore, IL
Dealas Elden Wiley, 94 Somonauk, IL
August 24, 1930June 1, 2025 Turner-Eighner Funeral Home
Elizabeth “Beth” Williams, 63 Little Chute, WI September 12, 1961March 8, 2025
Kenneth M. ‘Kenny’ Weinstock, 78 Sycamore, IL
December 8, 1946April 16, 2025
Addie Williams, 75 Sycamore, IL
June 18, 1949June 12, 2025
Gary Eugene Underwood, 73
De Soto, MO
December 26, 1951May 23, 2025
Lana Rae Uplinger, 76 DeKalb, IL
December 26, 1948June 26, 2025
VConstantinos “Gus” A. Vasilopoulos, 89 Rochelle, IL
April 17, 2025
Judith Diane Walitzer Octavia, NE
Thomas A. Weishaar, 75 DeKalb, IL
February 19, 1950June 16, 2025
Ruth L. Wisser, 84 DeKalb, IL
August 24, 1940July 15, 2025
ZRobert Eugene White, 79 Rochelle, IL
March 25, 1946May 1, 2025
Virginia Mae Whitmer Genoa, IL
John Damon Whitney, 90 Sandwich, IL April 4, 1935April 16, 2025
Bette Ann (nee Richards) Wielert, 87 Hinckley, IL
September 20, 1937March 19, 2025
Kathleen (Kathy) Mary Zimmerman, 83 Earlville, IL
August 21, 1941March 28, 2025 Hanley-Turner-Eighner Funeral Home
Susan D. Zographos, 77 Sycamore, IL January 8, 1948April 16, 2025
for the next Tributes Section in the Daily Chronicle on March 7, 2026.
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