Benton, West Frankfort, Illinois News | Franklin County News
Newspaper covering Franklin County, Illinois
by Steve Dunford
From reading posts on social media, there is a power outage in the Logan-Parrish area of the county. The area is south of Route 34.
Southeastern Illinois Electric-Cooperative is reporting on their website 27 homes without power at this time. They have not given a restoration time yet.
Carter Paul Lingle, age 16, of Benton, passed away at 6:37 p.m. Sunday, June 11, 2017 at the Franklin Hospital of Benton.
Carter Paul Lingle was born on October 3, 2000, the son of David Paul Lingle and Kimberly Ann (Kretzer) Lingle.
Carter was a Junior at BCHS. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, playing X-Box, doing yard work and orchard work with his Grandpa Lingle, helping other people, and also enjoyed taking care of the livestock with his Grandpa Kretzer.
He was a member of Resurrection Church in Benton, and also attended Rescue Free Will Baptist Church near Whittington.
Carter is survived by his loving parents David Paul Lingle and Kimberly Ann Lingle, of Benton; his loving brother Andrew David Lingle, his loving twin brother Casey Robert Lingle, his loving sister Emilee Grace-Marie Lingle, all of Benton; his grandparents: Paul and Catherine Lingle of Whittington, Patricia Johns of Sesser, Charles and Dawna Kretzer, of Long Lane, MO, and Barry Johns of Sesser; an uncle John Lingle and wife Sherry and their family of Sesser; two aunts: Susan Shelton and husband Ralph Edward and their family of Ewing, Jeniffer McDowell and husband Dennis and their family of Long Lane, MO.
He was preceded in death by both his paternal and maternal great-grandparents.
Funeral Services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Friday, June 16, 2017 at the Leffler Funeral Home of Benton, with Revs. Bryant Harris and Charles Kretzer officiating. Burial will be in the Elder S.M. Williams Cemetery in Ewing. Visitation will be Thursday evening from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the family to assist with the funeral arrangements.
To leave online condolences to the family or to share memories of Carter, visit www.lpfuneralhome.com
Ramona Anderson, 77, of Christopher, IL, passed away at 7:30 a.m., on June 12, 2017, at the Franklin Hospital ER.
She was born on April 12, 1940, to Valley and Alma (Smith) Davis in Benton, IL.She was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church. Ramona was a loving wife, partner, homemaker, and grandmother. She enjoyed arranging flowers and was active with the youth and senior groups at church. Ramona was proud of her grandchildren, following them in sports, band, and other activities. She found great joy in helping others, and would put others before herself. Ramona had a large heart and lived love.
Ramona is survived by her loving husband of 58 years, Walter Bruce Anderson, two sons, David B. (Jackie Renee) Anderson of Thompsonville, IL, and Scott (Chris) Anderson of Rochester, IL; three daughters, Sheryl L. (Mark) Hall of Benton, IL, Michele K. (Jeff) Stoffel of Benton, IL, Christina L. (Larry) Scott of Herrin, IL; four grandsons, David I. (Sarah)Anderson of Mulkeytown, IL, Daniel E. (Amanda) Anderson of Benton, IL, Brandon (Tabitha) Hall of Benton, IL, Justin West of Benton, IL; three granddaughters, Audra (Matt) Wolfe of DuQuoin, IL, Autumn Harris of West Frankfort, IL, Kendreona J. Buchanan of Herrin, IL; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Valley and Alma Davis, and brother, Junior Davis.
Services are entrusted to Pate Funeral Home, 301 S. Main Street, Benton, IL.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, June 15, 2017, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at Pate Funeral Home, Benton, IL.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, June 16, 2017, at 11:00 a.m., with the Rev. Eddie Paul Davis and the Rev. Samuel Simmons officiating.
Burial will follow services at the Masonic and Odd Fellows Cemetery, Benton, IL.
Memorials may be made to Immanuel Baptist Church and will be accepted at the funeral home.
Online condolences can be given at www.patefh.com.
Linda Sue (Petro) Mandrell, 74, of Sesser passed away on Sunday June 11, 2017 at her home.
She was born on September 13, 1942 in Sesser to Harold and Josephine (Zwosky) Goessman.
She married John Petro Jr. on October 25, 1959 and he preceded her in death on April 18, 2004. She later married Gordon Mandrell on February 14, 2014 and he survives of Sesser.
Survivors include her children John Patrick and Stephanie Petro of Sesser, Kelly Dean and Cathy Petro of Sesser, Mark Allen and Gena Petro of Sesser, Patricia Jo and Bart Swisher of Sesser; grandchildren Amie and Brian Nitz, Joshua Petro, Jessica Petro and fiancée Trevor Joiner, Ryan and Adrea Petro, Paige and Alex Owens, Logan Petro, Danielle and Brett Crocker, Andrew Swisher; 6 great grandchildren Brooklynn, Zoie, Brody, Collin, Emerysn, Libby; one brother Harold Dean and Margaret Goessman of Sesser; and a brother-in-law and sister-in-law Jerry and Margie Petro of Woodbury, TN.
Funeral Services will be on Wednesday June 14, 2017 at 7:00 PM at the Brayfield-Gilbert Funeral Home in Sesser. Visitation will be on Wednesday June 14, 2017 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM. Private burial will be at Maple Hill Cemetery at a later date.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Celtic Hospice and will be accepted at the funeral home.
For more information go to our website www.gilbertfuneralhomes.com
Tristen Sharp, Left – Emma Caserotti -Right (Photo submitted to the Mt. Vernon Register-News)
INA, IL – (Tesa Glass – Mt Vernon Register-News. Please click on link above for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
An accident on Interstate 57 at the 81 mile post between Big Muddy River Correctional Center and Rend Lake College has claimed the life of a Mt. Vernon teen.
Eighteen-year-old Emma Caserotti died from injuries sustained in the accident, which happened at 12:56 p.m. on Sunday. Her passenger, 18-year-old Tristen Sharp, received major injuries and was flown to a St. Louis hospital for treatment.
According to information from the Illinois State Police, a 2006 Mazda driven by a 25-year-old man from Energy was going north on the Interstate when, for unknown reasons, he crossed the median and went into the southbound lanes of traffic, hitting the 2016 Jeep driven by Caserotti head on. The driver of the Mazda and his passenger, a 22-year-old woman from Carbondale, received minor injuries in the crash
http://www.bnd.com/sports/mlb/st-louis-cardinals/cheap-seats-blog/article155647719.html
BELLEVILLE, IL – (Scott Wuerz – Belleville News-Democrat. Please click on the link above to read the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
The St. Louis Cardinals have put together a mild winning streak, sweeping the hapless Philadelphia Phillies at home after a winless road trip against the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs.
But that doesn’t mean all is well in Redbirds land.
Jhonny Peralta may be gone in effort to add new life and fresh legs to the roster and third base coach Chris Maloney took the fall for the Cardinals’ bad baserunning. But there are still a lot of rough edges for this team to clean up. Many of them were apparent Sunday.
– A dozen adult learners walked across the stage during the 37th Annual GED Graduation Ceremony at Rend Lake College. Participating students received a certificate to recognize their accomplishments. Those participating, from left, were: Daniel Spangler, Paula Lamke, Elizabeth Hodge, Heather Powell, Tammy Overbey, Samantha Kokoska, Reanna Todd, Thomas Brooks, Nicole Mullins, Johanna Vaughan, Alicia Sansone, Kristina Russel. Click on the image for a larger view.
(Reece Rutland/RLC Public Information)
http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/summer/photos/where-to-watch-the-solar-eclipse-in-august
Mike Sirach – Enjoy Illinois
(Kassandra Kloss -The Travel Channel. Please click on the link for the slide show.)
NOTE: The Travel Channel composed a slide show of the nine best places to view the Eclipse in August. Southern Illinois made the list. I hope you enjoy some of the beautiful places across America where optimal viewing will be best.
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/35636494/benton-hosts-farm-city-day
WSIL, _TV
BENTON, IL – (Andrew Feather, WSIL – TV. Please click on the link above for the full story and video. Here is an excerpt below.)
Saturday, a festival not held for 21 years was brought back to life in Benton.
“I remember it being fun, exciting, community oriented,” Steve Browning said. “It brought a lot of people together.”
After consulting with the Franklin County Farm Bureau, Browning organized the first City Farm Day in more than two decades.
The day, meant to celebrate the farm industry in Illinois, brought hundreds of people to the Benton Public square for a festival of food, fun and all things farming.
MARION, IL – The Southern Illinois Miners got two home runs on Sunday from Kurt Wertz, Jr. and a game-tying, two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth by Ryan Lashley, but Rock Shoulders’ two-run home run in the tenth inning gave the Joliet Slammers an 8-6, extra-inning win at Rent One Park to complete a series sweep.
Miners DH Kurt Wertz, Jr., who homered twice in last nights game
The Miners grabbed an early advantage in the first inning as Lashley hit an RBI single following a walk by Craig Massey and a single by Nolan Earley. Later in the inning, with the bases loaded, a wild pitch by Shane Bryant brought home Earley and made it 2-0. Joliet would score four runs in the next two innings, three of which were unearned thanks to three Miners errors. With the score 4-2, Wertz clubbed a home run over the right field wall leading off the bottom of the fourth for his first hit of the year after being activated from the injured list on Sunday.
Ridge Hoopii-Haslam got that run back leading off the next inning with a solo shot of his own to make the score 5-3, and the Slammers would go ahead 6-3 on an RBI single by Chaz Meadows with two outs in the sixth inning. Wertz again led off the bottom half of the frame with a solo home run, this time to left field, to make the score 6-4. The ballgame then stayed 6-4 through the late innings as neither team could score off the other’s bullpen. Southern Illinois loaded the bases with none out in the eighth, but three straight strikeouts by Danny Concepcion held them off the board.
In the ninth, Earley tripled with one out down the right field line, setting up Lashley, who homered to left field off Joliet closer Confesor Lara to tie the game at 6-6. That sent the game to extra innings, and in the tenth, after a diving catch by Lindley in right-center field robbed Juan Silva for the first out, Edwin Gomez doubled and went to third on a flyout. With two down in the inning, Shoulders then hit a go-ahead, two-run homer to right field to give the Slammers the lead, and eventually the win when Southern Illinois got the tying run on base in the bottom half of the inning with nobody out, but failed to score.
Lashley went 2-for-5 with three RBIs, while Wertz, Massey and Earley had two hits apiece, with Wertz homering twice in the game, but it was not enough as the visiting Slammers swept the weekend series in Marion. Southern Illinois will take the field next on Wednesday night at 6:05 p.m. for a doubleheader against the Traverse City Beach Bums. Ethan Gibbons and a starter to be named will pitch for the Miners while Reinaldo Lopez and Augie Gallardo will toe the rubber for Traverse City.
| Joliet | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Batter | P | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
| 9 | Silva, J | RF | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .290 |
| 47 | Gomez, E | DH | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .320 |
| 8 | Zardon, D | 3B | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .347 |
| 5 | Shoulders, R | 1B | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .253 |
| 6 | Rodriguez, M | 2B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .287 |
| 2 | Hoopii-Haslam, R | CF | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| 17 | Rodriguez, A | LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .264 |
| 4 | Meadows, C | SS | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .283 |
| 15 | Patterson, C | C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .095 |
| 36 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Batting
2B: E.Gomez (5). HR: R.Shoulders (6), R.Hoopii-Haslam (5).
RBI: D.Zardon (10), R.Shoulders 2 (21), M.Rodriguez (19), R.Hoopii-Haslam (15), A.Rodriguez (11), C.Meadows (7). SF: M.Rodriguez (1). CS: J.Silva (4). SB: J.Silva (6), R.Hoopii-Haslam (5).
Team LOB: 3.
Fielding A: D.Zardon (21), M.Rodriguez 3 (71), C.Meadows (36). PO: J.Silva 6 (43), R.Shoulders 8 (210), M.Rodriguez (47), R.Hoopii-Haslam 4 (60), A.Rodriguez 2 (49), C.Patterson 9 (39).
TC: J.Silva 6 (45), D.Zardon (29), R.Shoulders 8 (223), M.Rodriguez 4 (122), R.Hoopii-Haslam 4 (94), A.Rodriguez 2 (51), C.Meadows (56), C.Patterson 9 (45).
| S Illinois | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Batter | P | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
| 23 | Massey, C | 2B | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .290 |
| 15 | Earley, N | RF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .268 |
| 19 | Lashley, R | 3B | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .229 |
| 27 | Flores, M | LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .242 |
| 25 | Martin, W | 1B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .289 |
| 11 | McKeithan, J | PR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .178 |
| 7 | Moore, B | C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .190 |
| 8 | Wertz Jr., K | DH | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .667 |
| 26 | Plant, C | SS | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .385 |
| 6 | Moore, R | C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| 30 | Germaine, B | 1B PH |
2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .309 |
| 2 | Lindley, L | CF | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .306 |
| 40 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 9 | ||||
Batting
3B: C.Massey (2), N.Earley (2). HP: W.Martin (1). HR: R.Lashley (3), K.Wertz Jr. 2 (2).
RBI: R.Lashley 3 (19), K.Wertz Jr. 2 (2).
Team LOB: 10.
Fielding A: C.Massey 6 (60), R.Lashley (31), W.Martin 2 (2), C.Plant 3 (26), R.Moore 2 (6), N.Palacios (4), C.Washington (1). CS: R.Moore (1). DP: 2 (C. Plant(SS) – W. Martin(1B),N. Palacios(P) – C. Massey(2B) – W. Martin(1B)). E: M.Flores (1), W.Martin (1), C.Plant (2), R.Moore (1). PO: C.Massey 3 (43), N.Earley (42), R.Lashley (10), M.Flores (19), W.Martin 9 (9), C.Plant 2 (13), R.Moore 4 (36), B.Germaine 2 (18), L.Lindley 6 (70), C.Sessions (3). SBA: R.Moore 3 (17). TC: C.Massey 9 (104), N.Earley (45), R.Lashley 2 (47), M.Flores 2 (20), W.Martin 12 (12), C.Plant 6 (41), R.Moore 7 (43), B.Germaine 2 (20), L.Lindley 6 (71), C.Sessions (8), N.Palacios (5), C.Washington (1).
| Joliet | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA |
| 28 | Bryant, S | 7.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4.89 |
| 20 | McKenna, B | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.16 |
| 32 | Concepcion, D | 1.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8.00 |
| 46 |  Lara, C |
0.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3.75 |
| 21 |  Russ, G |
1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4.15 |
| 10 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | |||
Pitching
BF: S.Bryant 30, B.McKenna 3, D.Concepcion 5, C.Lara 3, G.Russ 5.
P-S: S.Bryant 114-73, B.McKenna 16-6, D.Concepcion 16-12, C.Lara 8-5, G.Russ 23-13.
WP: S.Bryant (1).
| S Illinois | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA |
| 18 | Sessions, C | 3.1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.02 |
| 1 | Palacios, N | 2.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5.06 |
| 16 | Washington, C | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.00 |
| 40 |  Tinius, K |
1.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.37 |
| 28 | Werner, J | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.09 |
| 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | |||
| S Illinois | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA |
| 18 | Sessions, C | 3.1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.02 |
| 1 | Palacios, N | 2.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5.06 |
| 16 | Washington, C | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.00 |
| 40 | Tinius, K |
1.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.37 |
| 28 | Werner, J | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.09 |
| 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Pitching BF: C.Sessions 17, N.Palacios 10, C.Washington 6, K.Tinius 6, J.Werner 2. P-S: C.Sessions 73-42, N.Palacios 40-23, C.Washington 18-13, K.Tinius 20-15, J.Werner 6-5. |
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My apologies for the layout of the Miners pitching line. -sd
