{"id":26738,"date":"2026-01-05T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=26738"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:36:14","slug":"karen-k-st-john-83-of-mattoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/26738-karen-k-st-john-83-of-mattoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen K. St. John (83) 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>Karen K St John, 83, of Mattoon, Illinois passed away at 11:10 PM Friday, January 2, 2026 at Willow Breeze Hospice.<\/p>\n<p>Karen was born May 23, 1942 to Edward and Dorothy (Gosney) Moore.\u00a0 She married Robert E. &#8220;Bob&#8221; St John July 18, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Karen is survived by her children: Karl (Myra) Thornton of Gays ,IL, Donna (Bill) Daigh of Virginia Beach, VA, 5 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, 2 great great grandchildren, sisters: Janice (Larry) Collins of Herrick, IL, and Rebecca (Rick) Markel of Westville, IL.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her parents, husband: sisters, Ruth Albin and Sandy Caldwell and brother, Mark Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p>Karen spent her career as an x-ray technician at a number of area clinics.<\/p>\n<p>She was a member of the Broadway Christian Church in Mattoon, IL and the church\u2019s quilt ministry, the Mattoon Moose Lodge. Karen loved quilting, fishing with her son, tending to her lawn, and helping her son find Hot Wheels. She loved spending time with her family and watching her many great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A Celebration Of Life will be held Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at\u00a0 11:00 AM in the Broadway Christian Church, 1205 S 9th Street Mattoon, IL 61938.\u00a0\u00a0 A Visitation will be Wednesday January 14, 2026 from 10:00 AM until service time also at the Church. Inurnment in Janesville Cemetery at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials may be made to the Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Cancer Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Swengel &#8211; O\u2019Dell Funeral Home 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>Karen died on Friday, January 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26739,"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-26738","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>Karen K. 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