{"id":21586,"date":"2025-10-27T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=21586"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:08:56","slug":"garry-lee-kroenlein-81-of-mattoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/21586-garry-lee-kroenlein-81-of-mattoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Lee Kroenlein (81) of Mattoon"},"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>Garry Lee Kroenlein, 81, of Mattoon, Illinois entered the heavenly gates at 11:58 p.m. on Thursday October 23, 2025, at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Care Center in Mattoon.<\/p>\n<p>Services are pending. The Barkley Funeral Chapel in Toledo is assisting the family.<\/p>\n<p>Garry was born on August 14, 1944, in Montrose, Illinois to Kenneth and Dolly (Keller) Kroenlein. He married Hazel Kingery on October 29, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his loving wife Hazel of 60 years; daughters Lela (Les) Weck and Toni (Randy) Curry; 5 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren; as well as the neighbor boy whom he loved like a son, Chris Hutchcraft.<\/p>\n<p>Garry was preceded in death by his parents, and sister Sandra Hopper.<\/p>\n<p>Garry worked at Anamet for 27 years as well as Bradley upholstery. His family was his proudest joy in life. Garry loved old cars, mushroom hunting, and their trips to Branson. He will be missed by all that knew him and loved him.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences can be expressed at www.barkleyfuneralchapels.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry died the night of Thursday, October 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21586","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>Garry Lee Kroenlein (81) of Mattoon - 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\/21586-garry-lee-kroenlein-81-of-mattoon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Garry Lee Kroenlein (81) of Mattoon - 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