{"id":1767,"date":"2024-12-26T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2024-12-26T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:24:24","slug":"kimberly-a-pickett-55-of-effingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/1767-kimberly-a-pickett-55-of-effingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly A. Pickett (55) of Effingham"},"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>Kimberly A. Pickett, 55, of Effingham died at 5:25 a.m. Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, January 4, 2025 at Gieseking Funeral Home, Altamont with Pastor Noah Manship officiating. Visitation will be for one hour prior to service time. Memorials may be made to the donor\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly A. Pickett was born on Thursday, June 5, 1969 in Lansdale, PA to Francis Tyrone Pickett and Lucinda Anne (Stewart) White. She was employed with Walmart, Effingham.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by: her mother, Lucinda White of Painted Post, NY; daughter, Brandie (Brett) Mosher of Effingham; stepson, Daniel Camp, Jr. of Altamont; stepdaughters, Danielle (Timothy) Wescott of Pine City, NY and Danette Camp of Lawrenceville, PA; brothers, Charles Lewis of New Holland, PA, Jerry (Tonya) Lewis of Elkland, PA and, Brett Pickett; sisters, Angela Lewis of Corning, NY, Tammy (Patrick) Smith and Tonya Pentycofe; 2 grandchildren; 13 step grandchildren and 6 step great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her father and brother, Tyrone Pickett<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giesekingfh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by clicking here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly died the morning of Wednesday, December 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1751,"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-1767","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>Kimberly A. 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