RAYMOND, Larry D. (1948-2006)

RAYMOND, RESCH, STEWART

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 12/8/2007 at 18:37:21

Fairfield Ledger
Mon., March 20, 2006.

Larry D. Raymond, 57, formerly of Fairfield, died at 9 a.m. Friday, March 17, 2006, at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale in Carbondale, Ill.

A service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield, with the Rev. Katherine Bryant Graves officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield.

Family visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorials have been established to the family or to First Christian Church of Carbondale.

Mr. Raymond was born April 2, 1948, in Fairfield, the son of Jack Lloyd and Cora Ellen Miller Raymond. He married Pamela Sue Resch April 27, 1985, in St. Louis, Mo.

Mr. Raymond grew up in Fairfield and graduated from Fairfield High School in 1966. He attended Simpson College and received his bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Drake University in 1975. He did graduate study at the University of Iowa and received his master’s degree in American studies from St. Louis University in 1984. Mr. Raymond worked for KTVO Television in Ottumwa and Kirksville and at Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville. He also worked at KETC television in St. Louis and KSIU TV/FM at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Mr. Raymond was a member of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Carbondale and Fairfield. He was a member of BPO Elks 1192 in Fairfield.

Survivors include his wife of Carbondale; one son, Adam Brett Raymond of Carbondale; one daughter, Amanda Lauren Raymond of Carbondale; one sister Karen Stewart of Sylmar, Calif.; one brother, Jack E. Raymond of Fairfield.

He was preceded in death by his parents.
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