{"id":14779,"date":"2025-07-25T16:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=14779"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:24:30","slug":"floyd-d-lawhorn-63-of-casey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/14779-floyd-d-lawhorn-63-of-casey\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd D. Lawhorn (63) of Casey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Floyd D. Lawhorn, 63, of Casey, IL passed away at 5:59 pm on July 23, 2025, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, IL.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial visitation will be from 6:00 to 7:00 pm on Thursday July 31, 2025, at the Barkley Funeral Chapel in Greenup, IL. A celebration of life service will begin at 7:00 pm. The burial will be at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd was born in Joliet, IL on September 19, 1961, to Raymond and Nora (Frost) Lawhorn. He married Megan Watkins on August 2, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his loving wife; loving father to Michael, Tyler, and Tracye; brother Robert Lawhorn; sisters Betty Shackelford, and Roberta (Stump) Shackelford; brothers-in-law Pat Lively, Jerry Vance, and Frank Shafer; sister in-law Kimber (Joe) Penrod; nieces and nephews Tina, Chris, Becky, Mary, Wendi, Ronnie, Jimy, Danny, Mike, Sharon, Jimmy, Jason, Electra, Brooks, Amanda, Sandra, Jake, Josh, Kurt, Nick, Beth, and Donnie. A host great nieces and nephews some closer Dylan, Devan, Cody, Noah, Gavyn, Maverick, Rhett, Kinley, Audrey, Kayce, Weston, and Madyln.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd was preceded in death by his father Raymond; Mother Nora Allen; sisters Patricia Vance, Sherry Shafer, Sheila Lively, and Lucille Soltysik.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences can be expressed at www.barkleyfuneralchapels.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd died the evening of Wednesday, July 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Floyd D. 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