{"id":20259,"date":"2025-10-10T07:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=20259"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:07:17","slug":"sara-j-chisler-57-of-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/20259-sara-j-chisler-57-of-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara J. Chisler (57) of Watson"},"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>Sara J. Chisler, age 57, of Watson, Illinois passed away on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at HSHS St. Anthony\u2019s Memorial Hospital in Effingham.<\/p>\n<p>Per Sara\u2019s wishes, cremation rites will be accorded, and a Celebration of Life will be held at 10:00am Friday, October 24 at Salt Creek Church at Watson, officiated by Ben Bear. A luncheon will be held at Watson Civic Center immediately following the service.<\/p>\n<p>Sara was born on August 18, 1968 in Effingham, Illinois, the daughter of John and Kathleen (Brewer) Chisler. Sara worked at Dairy Queen for many years. She loved shopping and keeping up with the latest trends in style and always prided herself on looking her best whenever she went out. She enjoyed spending time watching reruns of classic television shows, particularly Gunsmoke. Sara was a longtime member of Salt Creek Church.<\/p>\n<p>Sara is survived by her sister, Michele Bannick of Sigel, Illinois, as well as several nephews, one niece, and several great-nephews and great-nieces.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her parents, John A. and Kathleen Chisler; brother, John A. Chisler, Jr.; and sister, Lisa A. Robbins.<\/p>\n<p>The Swengel &#8211; O\u2019Dell Funeral Home of Neoga, Illinois is assisting the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed at www.swengel-odell.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara died on Tuesday, October 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20287,"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-20259","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>Sara J. 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