Donald Garmon, 62, of Mapleton, Illinois died at 2:03 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois with family at his bedside.
Mr. Garmon was born May 20, 1949 in Fairbury, Illinois to Clanis "Hebron" and Mary (Mosby) Garmon. He was the youngest of 11 children. His childhood years were spent growing up on a farm in the rural areas of Hoopeston/Rossville, Illinois. He married Linda Sue Brooks from Ottawa, Illinois on Aug. 28, 1971. They recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.
Surviving are his wife; daughter, Megan (Robert) Miller; son, Gregory (Melissa, fiancee). He is also survived by five sisters and one brother, Ruby (Glen) Benway, Virginia (Tom) O'Connor, Geneva (Kenneth) Dancy, Sandra (Don) Wilson, Judy Willis and fraternal twin brother, Ronald Garmon.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Dorothy (George) Perkins, Nina (Walt) Flessner and Shelby (Hank) Aquino and one brother, Ray Garmon.
Don graduated from Rossville High School and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Eastern Illinois University.
He was inducted into Phi Delta Kappa and Phi Epsilon Kappa professional education fraternities. He also was a founding father of the Eta Mu chapter of Sigma Chi social fraternity at EIU.
As a responsibility of his graduate assistantship, Don was assistant principal at the Buzzard Laboratory School, located on campus.
Don taught junior high science/health at Bartonville Grade School from 1973 to 1980, and Creve Coeur School District 76 from 1980 to 1993.
He coached several athletic teams.
He left education briefly in 1980 to work at Caterpillar Tractor Company. From 1993 until his retirement in 2006, Don served as an elementary principal/curriculum director/grant writer at Homewood Heights and LaSalle Schools in Creve Coeur School District 76.
Don was a member of St. Peters Lutheran Church near Glasford.
He greatly enjoyed being the Illini Bluffs High School Bass Club sponsor/coach and working with the students and parents of the district. His high school bass club blog was featured on the IHSA website, The Future Fishes Here.
Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) - Monday, September 19, 2011
Mr. Garmon was born May 20, 1949 in Fairbury, Illinois to Clanis "Hebron" and Mary (Mosby) Garmon. He was the youngest of 11 children. His childhood years were spent growing up on a farm in the rural areas of Hoopeston/Rossville, Illinois. He married Linda Sue Brooks from Ottawa, Illinois on Aug. 28, 1971. They recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.
Surviving are his wife; daughter, Megan (Robert) Miller; son, Gregory (Melissa, fiancee). He is also survived by five sisters and one brother, Ruby (Glen) Benway, Virginia (Tom) O'Connor, Geneva (Kenneth) Dancy, Sandra (Don) Wilson, Judy Willis and fraternal twin brother, Ronald Garmon.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Dorothy (George) Perkins, Nina (Walt) Flessner and Shelby (Hank) Aquino and one brother, Ray Garmon.
Don graduated from Rossville High School and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Eastern Illinois University.
He was inducted into Phi Delta Kappa and Phi Epsilon Kappa professional education fraternities. He also was a founding father of the Eta Mu chapter of Sigma Chi social fraternity at EIU.
As a responsibility of his graduate assistantship, Don was assistant principal at the Buzzard Laboratory School, located on campus.
Don taught junior high science/health at Bartonville Grade School from 1973 to 1980, and Creve Coeur School District 76 from 1980 to 1993.
He coached several athletic teams.
He left education briefly in 1980 to work at Caterpillar Tractor Company. From 1993 until his retirement in 2006, Don served as an elementary principal/curriculum director/grant writer at Homewood Heights and LaSalle Schools in Creve Coeur School District 76.
Don was a member of St. Peters Lutheran Church near Glasford.
He greatly enjoyed being the Illini Bluffs High School Bass Club sponsor/coach and working with the students and parents of the district. His high school bass club blog was featured on the IHSA website, The Future Fishes Here.
Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) - Monday, September 19, 2011
Donald Garmon, 62, of Mapleton, Illinois died at 2:03 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois with family at his bedside.
Mr. Garmon was born May 20, 1949 in Fairbury, Illinois to Clanis "Hebron" and Mary (Mosby) Garmon. He was the youngest of 11 children. His childhood years were spent growing up on a farm in the rural areas of Hoopeston/Rossville, Illinois. He married Linda Sue Brooks from Ottawa, Illinois on Aug. 28, 1971. They recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.
Surviving are his wife; daughter, Megan (Robert) Miller; son, Gregory (Melissa, fiancee). He is also survived by five sisters and one brother, Ruby (Glen) Benway, Virginia (Tom) O'Connor, Geneva (Kenneth) Dancy, Sandra (Don) Wilson, Judy Willis and fraternal twin brother, Ronald Garmon.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Dorothy (George) Perkins, Nina (Walt) Flessner and Shelby (Hank) Aquino and one brother, Ray Garmon.
Don graduated from Rossville High School and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Eastern Illinois University.
He was inducted into Phi Delta Kappa and Phi Epsilon Kappa professional education fraternities. He also was a founding father of the Eta Mu chapter of Sigma Chi social fraternity at EIU.
As a responsibility of his graduate assistantship, Don was assistant principal at the Buzzard Laboratory School, located on campus.
Don taught junior high science/health at Bartonville Grade School from 1973 to 1980, and Creve Coeur School District 76 from 1980 to 1993.
He coached several athletic teams.
He left education briefly in 1980 to work at Caterpillar Tractor Company. From 1993 until his retirement in 2006, Don served as an elementary principal/curriculum director/grant writer at Homewood Heights and LaSalle Schools in Creve Coeur School District 76.
Don was a member of St. Peters Lutheran Church near Glasford.
He greatly enjoyed being the Illini Bluffs High School Bass Club sponsor/coach and working with the students and parents of the district. His high school bass club blog was featured on the IHSA website, The Future Fishes Here.
Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) - Monday, September 19, 2011
Mr. Garmon was born May 20, 1949 in Fairbury, Illinois to Clanis "Hebron" and Mary (Mosby) Garmon. He was the youngest of 11 children. His childhood years were spent growing up on a farm in the rural areas of Hoopeston/Rossville, Illinois. He married Linda Sue Brooks from Ottawa, Illinois on Aug. 28, 1971. They recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary.
Surviving are his wife; daughter, Megan (Robert) Miller; son, Gregory (Melissa, fiancee). He is also survived by five sisters and one brother, Ruby (Glen) Benway, Virginia (Tom) O'Connor, Geneva (Kenneth) Dancy, Sandra (Don) Wilson, Judy Willis and fraternal twin brother, Ronald Garmon.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Dorothy (George) Perkins, Nina (Walt) Flessner and Shelby (Hank) Aquino and one brother, Ray Garmon.
Don graduated from Rossville High School and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Eastern Illinois University.
He was inducted into Phi Delta Kappa and Phi Epsilon Kappa professional education fraternities. He also was a founding father of the Eta Mu chapter of Sigma Chi social fraternity at EIU.
As a responsibility of his graduate assistantship, Don was assistant principal at the Buzzard Laboratory School, located on campus.
Don taught junior high science/health at Bartonville Grade School from 1973 to 1980, and Creve Coeur School District 76 from 1980 to 1993.
He coached several athletic teams.
He left education briefly in 1980 to work at Caterpillar Tractor Company. From 1993 until his retirement in 2006, Don served as an elementary principal/curriculum director/grant writer at Homewood Heights and LaSalle Schools in Creve Coeur School District 76.
Don was a member of St. Peters Lutheran Church near Glasford.
He greatly enjoyed being the Illini Bluffs High School Bass Club sponsor/coach and working with the students and parents of the district. His high school bass club blog was featured on the IHSA website, The Future Fishes Here.
Peoria Journal Star, The (IL) - Monday, September 19, 2011
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