{"id":2216,"date":"2025-02-14T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2025-02-14T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:32:34","slug":"patricia-sue-gentry-86-of-arcola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/2216-patricia-sue-gentry-86-of-arcola\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Sue Gentry (86) of Arcola"},"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>Patricia Sue Gentry, 86, of Arcola, Illinois passed away at 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at The Arthur Home in Arthur, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday February 23, 2025, at the Barkley Funeral Chapel in Greenup, Illinois. Burial will be in the Greenup Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia was born on April 23, 1938, in Jewett, Illinois to Joe and Helen (Brown) Cox. She married Donald Eugene Gentry in the summer of 1957, and he preceded her in death in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia is survived by her sons Glenn (Angie) Gentry and Rodney Eugene (Ondina Aguirre) Gentry; daughter Debbie Gentry; sister June Bland; grandchildren Meghan, Myles, Max, Markie, Mason, and Mae.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Donald; brothers Albert, Larry, Billy Joe, and Stanley Cox; sisters Olive Gray, Barbara Leuken, JoAnn Miller, Rita Cox, and Rose Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia was a homemaker, while also running her own upholstery business \u201cPat\u2019s Upholstery\u201d. She was the Housekeeping Supervisor for Clark-Lindsey Village for many years. She went on to work and retire from Building Services at the University of Illinois. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the American Cancer Society.<\/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>Patricia died the afternoon of Tuesday, February 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2202,"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-2216","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>Patricia Sue Gentry (86) of Arcola - 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\/2216-patricia-sue-gentry-86-of-arcola\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patricia Sue Gentry (86) of Arcola - 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