{"id":1592,"date":"2024-12-03T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:00:44","slug":"roger-l-blair-84-of-lerna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/1592-roger-l-blair-84-of-lerna\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger L. Blair (84) of Lerna"},"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>Roger L. Blair, 84, of Lerna, Illinois passed away 7:00 AM Friday November 29, 2024 in the Mattoon Rehabilitation and Health Care Center of Mattoon, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Roger was born December 15, 1939 in Cumberland County, Illinois the son of Lewis D. and Montella (Haga) Blair.&nbsp;He married Karen Tomkins June 9, 1963 in Mattoon, Illinois.&nbsp;Mr. Blair proudly served in the Illinois National Guard. He was always keeping busy on his grain and livestock farm, he enjoyed operating his back hoe and he was a great &#8220;tinkerer&#8221; making useful things out of almost anything.<\/p>\n<p>Roger is survived by his wife, Karen Blair of Lerna, Illinois; children, Debbie (Tim) Beals of Trilla, Illinois, Robert (Cheryl) Blair of Mattoon, Illinois and Jennifer (Mike) Croslow of Lerna, Illinois; six grandchildren, Beth (Shane) Reeder, Erica Beals, Amanda Beals, Drew (Kristina) Croslow, Austin Croslow and Colton Blair; seven great grandchildren; brother, John (Jo) Blair of Forsyth, Illinois; several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents, Lewis and Montella Blair.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials are suggested to the St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 AM Wednesday December 4, 2024 in the Swengel &#8211; O\u2019Dell Funeral Home in Neoga, Illinois. Visitation will be Tuesday December 3, 2024 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM also in the funeral home. Burial will be in the Beals Cemetery near Trilla, Illinois with Military Honors by the Neoga American Legion.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swengel-odell.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by clicking here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger died the morning of Friday, November 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roger L. 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