{"id":1986,"date":"2025-01-21T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:27:33","slug":"gary-l-pee-wee-mcmechan-85-of-casey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/1986-gary-l-pee-wee-mcmechan-85-of-casey\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary L. &#8220;Pee Wee&#8221; McMechan (85) 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>Gary L. \u201cPee Wee\u201d McMechan, 85, of Casey, IL passed away at 8:50 pm on Monday January 20, 2025, at Helia Healthcare of Newton, in Newton.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be at 2:00 pm on Saturday January 25, 2025, at the Barkley Funeral Chapel in Greenup. Visitation will be from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturday, also at the funeral chapel. Burial will be in the Greenup Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Pee Wee was born on May 19, 1939, in Cumberland County, IL to Lena McMechan and raised by Harry (Alice) McMechan. He married Brenda Burk on October 25, 1987. She preceded him in death on June 12, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by sons Chuck Stirrett and Darrin Stirrett; daughters Brenda Gail Pocrnich, and Patty Logue; five grandchildren Stefanie Pocrnich, Casey (Brooke) Lee, Amber (Brad) Probst, Whitney (Layton) Belleville, and Pacen Logue; great grandchildren Paysli Kinkelaar, Jayclin Lee, Rayner Lee, Sawyer Probst, Stetson Probst, and one arriving soon.<\/p>\n<p>He is preceded in death by his wife, parents, and son-in-law Marty Pocrnich.<\/p>\n<p>Pee Wee was a lifelong farmer. He also worked out of Union #841 for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences can be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barkleyfuneralchapels.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by clicking here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary died the night of Monday, January 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1958,"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-1986","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>Gary L. &quot;Pee Wee&quot; McMechan (85) of Casey - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/1986-gary-l-pee-wee-mcmechan-85-of-casey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gary L. &quot;Pee Wee&quot; 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