{"id":21649,"date":"2025-10-28T06:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:45:52","slug":"the-bailey-family-zachary-kelsey-vada-rose-and-samuel-of-xenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/21649-the-bailey-family-zachary-kelsey-vada-rose-and-samuel-of-xenia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bailey Family&#8211;Zachary, Kelsey, Vada Rose and Samuel&#8211;of Xenia"},"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>The Bailey family\u2014Zachary Adam, age 37, Kelsey Danielle, age 35, and a cherished daughter and son, Vada Rose, age 12, and Samuel Isaac, age 7\u2014of Xenia, Illinois, passed away on October 22, 2025, in Ekalaka, Montana. Their firstborn son, Finnley Tate, age 10, survives, surrounded by loving family.<\/p>\n<p>A Celebration of Life for the Bailey family will begin at 9 a.m. on Monday, November 3, 2025, at Oil Belt Christian Service Camp, 555 Park Road, Flora, Illinois. Private burial will take place in Oskaloosa Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 2, at Oil Belt Christian Service Camp. In lieu of flowers and gifts, memorial donations are suggested to a GoFundMe account for the benefit of Finnley Bailey at https:\/\/gofund.me\/246eaec58.<\/p>\n<p>For those wishing to order flowers and gifts, the family has chosen The Mustard Seed in Louisville, Illinois, as their preferred provider of these tributes.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements are by Frank &amp; Bright Funeral Home in Flora. To share a condolence or memory, visit: www.frankandbright.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bailey family\u2014Zachary Adam, age 37, Kelsey Danielle, age 35, and a cherished daughter and son, Vada Rose, age 12, and Samuel Isaac, age 7\u2014of Xenia, Illinois, passed away on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21656,"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-21649","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>The Bailey Family-Zachary, Kelsey, Vada Rose and Samuel-of Xenia - 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\/21649-the-bailey-family-zachary-kelsey-vada-rose-and-samuel-of-xenia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bailey Family-Zachary, Kelsey, Vada Rose and Samuel-of Xenia - 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