{"id":2009,"date":"2025-01-23T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T22:54:53","slug":"allen-childress-75-of-st-elmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/2009-allen-childress-75-of-st-elmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Childress (75) of St. Elmo"},"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>Allen L. Childress, 75, of St. Elmo, died at 2:19 p.m. Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at his family&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Private family services will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans or any veteran\u2019s organization of the donor\u2019s choice. Gieseking Funeral Home, Altamont is assisting the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was born on Thursday, November 24, 1949 in Shelbyville, IL to Don and Dorothy (Guffy) Childress. Allen proudly served his country during the Vietnam war before marrying his life partner Billie, the 19th of Febuary 1972. He also worked for various oilfield companies before his retirement from Petco Petroleum Corp. in 2015. He spent his remaining years enjoying the outdoors accompanied by his dog Izzy, and watching his great-grandkids fish and play.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his daughter, Kelly (Brian) White, Vandalia; sisters, Donna (Jim) Engelman, St. Elmo and Joyce Grubaugh, Altamont; grandchildren, Sloane (Shana) Childress, St. Elmo and Rebel Childress, Vandalia; and four great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his wife Billie Childress; parents Don and Dorothy Childress; brother, Glen Ray in infancy; sister, Debra Gwyn; brother-in-law, Harold Grubaugh.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen died the afternoon of Wednesday, January 22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1998,"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-2009","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 - 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