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Spread to a neighboring business, business still operating, with the fire load inside, winds conditions out here this morning, the fire spread quickly. That business is also badly damaged. Buffier fighters table save the Corner Furniture business here on american, from severe damage, because of the big efforts on the part of firefighters. Take a listen. Once the building collapsed, it was easier for the fire to get into the exposure, because a paper storage, thats a lot of fuel. And that creates...

Lowell "Eddie" Edwin Billingsley, age 98, of Flora, Illinois, passed away Thursday July 27, 2023, at his home. He was born on January 30, 1925, in Mt. Erie,

It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Wanda L. Eastin, 85, early Tuesday morning, April 11, 2023, surrounded by her friends and family in Denver, Colorado. Wanda, born on November 12, 1937, to Lewis and Nora (Warren) DeSelms in Zenith, now rural Xenia. Wanda's early life was spent as a typical kid in Zenith/Johnsonville, Illinois. Wanda and her parents relocated where she would attend the Flora Junior and High School and it was there at the Flora High Scho...

This photo, taken in 1907, shows the overhead bridge over the Wabash Railroad at Rockfield. From files of Carroll County Comet, Journal-Citizen, Hoosier Democrat, Delphi Journal, the Flora History website and the Carroll County Historical Museum. 10 YEARS AGO Jefferson Township resident John Brown was sworn in as the District 1 Carroll County Commissioner April

Dr. Donald Lee Bunnell, age 92, passed away just before sunrise at the Flora Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Flora, Illinois, on January 6, 2023, with his son and daughter by his bedside. He was born on March 28, 1930, in Louisville, Illinois, to Robert George Bunnell and Thelma Emogene Smith Bunnell, both of Salem. He was born "in the little house behind the jail" by Dr. Howard Dillman in Louisville, Illinois. His father, Bob Bunnell, was a pharmacist. He owned and operated B...