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Family-authorized public listings from the VA Daily Burial Schedule. Original short notices with a Veteran flag. Not a Heroes roll and not a funeral-home scrape. Play Taps as a memorial respect.
Committal September 23, 2026 · Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
Vincent Arthur Dutye III is being honored at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. The family authorized this committal to appear on the Department of Veterans Affairs Daily Burial Schedule. The public l…
Committal September 23, 2026 · Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
A family-authorized committal for Richard Dale Hammond is on the VA National Cemetery Administration Daily Burial Schedule at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois. The schedule names Wednesday, September 2…
Committal September 23, 2026 · Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
Frank Schmilke is being honored at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. The family authorized this committal to appear on the Department of Veterans Affairs Daily Burial Schedule. The public listing is …
Committal September 23, 2026 · Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
A family-authorized committal for Michael Edward Ryan is on the VA National Cemetery Administration Daily Burial Schedule at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois. The schedule names Wednesday, September 23…
Committal September 23, 2026 · Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
A family-authorized committal for Barbara A Ryan is on the VA National Cemetery Administration Daily Burial Schedule at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois. The schedule names Wednesday, September 23, 202…
Family and neighborhood remembrances, including paid placements.
October 2, 1944 – August 29, 2026 · Peoria, Illinois
Merle Duane Shoemaker died in Peoria on August 29, 2026. He was eighty-one. Born there on October 2, 1944, he grew up knowing the tractor plant as a clock that did not sleep, and he learned a torque spec before he learne…
March 14, 1941 – August 19, 2026 · Rockford, Illinois
Stanislaw Jozef Kaczmarek died in Rockford on August 19, 2026. He was eighty-five. Born there on March 14, 1941, he grew up in a house where Polish was for the kitchen and English was for the shop, and he kept both. He b…
June 1, 1943 – August 27, 2026 · Quincy, Illinois
Harold Wayne Pettis died in Quincy on August 27, 2026. He was eighty-three. Born there on June 1, 1943, he grew up knowing the river as a clock and a weather report. His father worked the lock. Harold learned a gate befo…
November 22, 1943 – September 8, 2026 · Chicago, Illinois
Josephine Marie Kubiak died in Chicago on September 8, 2026. She was eighty-two. Born there on November 22, 1943, on the Southwest Side, she grew up in a house where Polish was for the kitchen and English was for the str…
October 14, 1940 – September 7, 2026 · Springfield, Illinois
Dorothy Fay Ellison died in Springfield on September 7, 2026. She was eighty-five. Born there on October 14, 1940, she grew up knowing the capitol dome as a weekday neighbor, and she learned a card catalog before she lea…
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Public memorials for documented deceased Americans.
September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935 · Chicago, Illinois
Jane Addams died in Chicago on May 21, 1935. She was seventy-four. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, she opened Hull-House on Halsted Street in 1889 and spent the next decades inventing what American se…
January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926 · Died Jacksonville, Florida
Bessie Coleman died on April 30, 1926, when a Jenny she was testing over Jacksonville, Florida, threw her from the open cockpit at about two thousand feet. She was thirty-four. The mechanic, William Wills, stayed with th…
July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931 · Died Chicago, Illinois
Ida B. Wells died in Chicago on March 25, 1931, of kidney disease, still editing, still organizing, still refusing to let a lynching be described as a mystery. She was sixty-eight. Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on …
February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 · Died Washington, D.C.
Abraham Lincoln died at Petersen House, the boarding house across from Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the morning of April 15, 1865. He was fifty-six. The shot had come the night before, in a box he had occupied …