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Styninger Funeral Homes, 224 S. Washington Street, Nashville, IL (2025)

10/03/2025

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10/01/2025

We recently did some improvements at our Hoyleton facility including new landscape rocks, exterior doors, painting and carpet. We would like to thank Jim and Jeff Harre from Naturally Green Landscape, Bryan Aubel from Addieville Lumber Company, Keith Grote from DGB Construction and Phil, Andy and Jerry from Gutler Furniture for working with us on this project. The place looks much better if we may say so.

09/16/2025

Hannah E.A. Povolish, 48 of Okawville, formerly of Mascoutah, passed away at 9:20 a.m. on Monday, September 15, 2025 at the scene of an automobile accident in Lively Grove. She was born on June 19, 1977 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Howard and Vicki Gatewood Bent. She was preceded in death by her father.

Left to mourn her passing is her mother Vicki Bent of Okawville. Her five children, Nichole (Richard) Cummings of Mascoutah, IL, Chelsea (Brennan) Hollowell of Glen Carbon, IL, David M. Povolish Jr. of Okawville, IL, Dylan Povolish of Mascoutah, IL, and Dalton Povolish of Okawville, IL; her grandchildren, Wyatt Povolish, Winston Povolish, Lucas Cummings, Waylon Povolish, Wayden Povolish, Maximus Cummings and Levi Hollowell. 4 brothers; Francis and David Bent of Okawville, Howard Bent of Massachusetts and Michael Bent of New York. 3 sisters; Dona Bryant Courtner of Butler, TN, Florence Hoy of Dwight, IL and Cynthia Atkins of Conway, SC. Also surviving is her life partner Clayton Medcalf of Okawville.

Hannah was a sales manager for Rector Truck and Trailer in Sparta. She loved to sing and play keyboard. Spending time with her family and grandchildren were her life. She was a very giving person and always doing for others.

A celebration of life service will be held at a later date. Styninger Funeral Home in Nashville is in charge of arrangements.

09/07/2025

UPDATE ON CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE!

Aaron Michael Polacek, 21 of rural Hoyleton, passed away at 9:51 a.m. on Friday, September 5, 2025 in the emergency room at Washington County Hospital in Nashville. He was born on January 23, 2004 in Mt. Vernon.

He is survived by his parents Angela McKnight and Jonathan Brown of Nashville. Grandparents; Brenda Waln DeJarnette and Randy LePere of Dupo, Timothy McKnight of DuBois and Nancy McKnight of Farmington, MO. 3 sisters; McKenzie (Garrett Gresham) McKnight, Payton Brown and Anjalina Brown all of Nashville. Several aunts, uncles and cousins are also left to mourn his passing.
Aaron loved to be outdoors. You could find him fishing, riding ATV’s or camping.

A celebration of life service will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 27, 2025 under the pavilion at the Blue Room in New Minden. Food and entertainment will be provided. Styninger Funeral Home in Nashville is in charge of arrangements.

09/03/2025

Richard C Boehning, 87, of Hoffman, Illinois, passed away peacefully on August 31, 2025, at home surrounded by family, after many years of struggling with Parkinson's Disease, Heart Failure, and Diabetes. He was born in New Minden, IL, on June 23, 1938, the son of Henry and Anna (Schuette) Boehning. He married his high school sweetheart, Agnes Krueger, on September 12, 1959, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hoyleton, and she survives him. Rich graduated from Nashville Community High School in 1956 and attended classes at Kaskaskia College. He proudly served in the United States Army Reserves from 1956-1964, and maintained active membership with the Beckemeyer American Legion. Rich had many interesting and challenging jobs. He traveled many long hours and longer miles over the road driving a semi-truck for Eagle Motor Lines, Vernon Weihe Trucking, Rommelman Farms, and Unverfehrt Farm Supply. Being owner/operator of The Bee Hive, brought much joy to the family and community. He has been a lifelong fan of the Dallas Cowboys, and his favorite pastime was watching sports on TV and following his teams. As a member of the Hoyleton Community Club, he also served on the Executive Board, and Chaired and Volunteered at the Hofbraufest, along with being a Volunteer Firefighter for many years. As a loyal member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Hoyleton, Rich taught Sunday School, played in the Chime Choir, was active in the Men's Club, and served as an Elder. He will be remembered for his quick wit, humor, and numerous fascinating stories.

Along with his devoted wife, Aggie, he is survived by his children, Edie (Keith) Grote, Jon (Stephanie) Boehning, Vicki (Don) Caves, and Chris Ewald. In addition, his 11 Grandchildren, Richard (Jennifer) Boehning, Stephanie (David) Wathen, Stacey (Brandon) Frederking, Donnie (Taylor) Caves, Caitlin (Jake Robichaux) Ewald, Alexa Caves, Ben (Mikayla) Grote, Mitchell (Amber) Ewald, Rebecca (Gregory) Romanchek, Hannah (Tommy) Zbikowski, and Elizabeth Boehning, and 19 Great-Grandchildren, with 2 more in the next 3 months. Being very devoted to his large family, Rich definitely felt the joy of loving and being loved. He was preceded in death by his Parents, Sisters Helen Boehning and Irene Russell, Brother Ed, and Brother-In-Law Robert Russell.

Friends and Family are welcome to a visitation from 5-7 on Friday, September 5, 2025, and one hour prior to the service on Saturday, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Hoyleton. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 10:30 AM, on Saturday, September 6, 2025, at Trinity Lutheran Church, with Pastor Nate Wollenberg officiating. Burial to follow at the cemetery, with Military Rites accorded by the Beckemeyer American Legion, Post 1227. Memorials may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church, Hoyleton, or a charity of choiceStyninger Funeral & Cremation Chapel in Hoyleton is in charge of arrangements. Online expressions of sympathy may be made at www.styningerfuneralhomes.com

09/01/2025

We hope you have enjoyed the Monday pictures we have posted over the summer as much as we have enjoyed reminiscing over our last 35 years in business. This is the last family photo taken before our kids went their separate ways. Brock married Roxzen Pelczynski and they gave us our only grandchildren to date twins Brixton and Brighton. Brock is in his 13th year with the Nashville Police Department where he is the Lieutenant. Roxzen is a Seargent and Detective with the Washington County Sheriff's Department and owns and operates Roxzen Rose Apparel clothing boutique. Bryce graduated from Worsham School of Mortuary Science and spent 2 1/2 years with us in the funeral business before realizing this wasn't his true calling. He married Amanda Thomas from St. Louis and they live in Woodland Park, Colorado. Bryce is a recruiter with Compassas Health Care and Amanda is a Foundation Director with the United States Olympics. They both recently appeared on an editon of HGTV's House Hunters television show. Bridget graduated from the University of Kansas School of Business. After completing an internship in Leadership and Development with the Omni Hotel group at Amelia Island Florida for a year, she now resides in Nashville, Tennessee where she is a Human Resource Recruiting Manager for Omni. Meanwhile, Becky and Mark continue to run the day to day operations of the funeral business. Becky is also the Worship and Music Director at Grace United Methodist Church as well as the Music Program Director at Nashville Grade School. Mark is currently in his 17th year as the Washington County Coroner. We have met many wonderful people over the last 35 years and been priviledged to serve nearly 2,000 families. God has truly blessed the Styningers!

08/25/2025

Monday picture #9. I mentioned in our very first post that we operated an ambulance service out of our funeral home when we were in Mason City. We began by purchasing a used van style ambulance from Clay County Hospital in Flora and hiring 2 full time EMT's along with Mark who was already licensed. Within a few years, the ambulance service became bigger than our funeral business. We were forced to add on a large garage to our funeral home and were staffing 2 paramedic ambulances 24 hours a day and had a staff of 12 Paramedics and EMT's both full and part time. We made the decision to sell our ambulance service to our employees on a "contract for deed" only to get the service back after we had been in Nashville for a year. It was not feasible to continue the operation of the service over a 100 miles away so we sold the tangible equipment to Medstar Ambulance Service in Sparta. We officially dissolved our ambulance corporation in 2002.

08/23/2025

Jennifer Lynn Williams, 43 of Centralia, passed away at 3:20 p.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2025 at SSM Good Samaritan Medical Center in Mt. Vernon. She was born on August 27, 1981 in Centralia, the daughter of James and Linda Lucas Holmes. She married Loyd Williams on September 5, 2002 in Nashville and he survives. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter Breann Smith of Odin, her mother of Salem, a brother Lucas Holmes of Salem, a sister Heather Holmes of Centralia, an uncle David Lucas of Salem and 2 aunts; Glenda (Curt) Black of Salem and Brenda (Chris) Williams of Kell. She was preceded in death by her father.

Jennifer was a member of Antioch Christian Church in Texico. She loved her dogs, all animals, arts and crafts.

Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 29, 2025 at Greenwood Cemetery in Nashville with Rev. Jono Schnautz officiating. Friends may call from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. at the Styninger Funeral Home in Nashville. The funeral procession will leave for the cemetery at 1:45 p.m. Memorial contributions are suggested. Online expressions of sympathy may be made at www.styningerfuneralhomes.com

08/17/2025

Picture #8. This article appeared in the March 2003 edition of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association Newsletter.

08/15/2025

Edward Lawrence Harper, of Nashville, IL, entered Jesus’ loving embrace on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 3 p.m. while at St. Mary’s Hospital in St. Louis, MO. He was a force on this earth for 69 years. Most people knew him as Larry. His hometown called him Tiny. To his students he was Mr. Harper. To his players he was Coach. Some probably called him other names from time to time which, if we’re being honest, he probably deserved. No matter what you called him, chances are you also called him a loyal friend, because he certainly was.
Larry was born on March 7, 1956 as the oldest of five children to Rev. Edward and Mary (Madley) Harper, then of Evanston, IL, while they were visiting family in Christopher, IL. He always knew how to make an entrance on his own terms and time. As the son of a Methodist minister, he grew up all over Illinois, eventually graduating from Nashville High School in 1974.
He married Shelley Nagel on December 17, 1977 at St. Paul UCC in Nashville. The 80s was a big decade for him as he welcomed his son Patrick into the world, graduated from McKendree College with a degree in education, and began his 30-year career as a math teacher at Coulterville Unit School District #1. He also was a passionate baseball and basketball coach. Many a clipboard fell victim to that passion, but it also positively impacted players in both Coulterville and Marissa programs. Early in his career he even coached cheerleading. His family didn’t believe it either, but there are pictures.
Larry was a faithful member of St. Paul UCC where he was a dedicated (and loud) bass in the church choir. Music was always a part of Larry’s life with Bill Gaither, Elvis Presley, Meatloaf, and Queen often flowing from his speakers, lips, and heart. His love of community was evident and you could often find him serving others with his brother Masons from Washington Lodge #55, his fellow Shriners in the Nuts n’ Bolts car club, or just lending a helping hand to a neighbor. One of his greatest joys later in life was announcing Nashville Hornet baseball games alongside Bo Meyer on WNSV. It’s still hard to believe they gave that man a microphone and didn’t go broke for foul language fines.
Larry’s road to Heaven was walked first by his parents, a sister Mary-Margaret Harper, and his best four-legged buddy Milo. Those now trying to fill the void of love and energy he left behind include his wife Shelley of Nashville; his son Patrick (Erica) Harper of Springfield, IL; his beloved grandchildren Addy and Finn; two brothers, Paul (Diane) Harper of Sherrills Ford, NC and Lee Harper of Las Vegas, NV; his sister Audrey Mahan of Las Vegas, NV; and his new furry friend Ella. All invite you to grab a Bloody Mary beer with a bourbon back, put on a Meatloaf album full blast, and play air drums while dancing ridiculously until your knees hurt in honor of a man who would love every second of that.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at St. Paul UCC church in Nashville, IL with Rev. Beverly Kahle officiating. Burial will follow in the Masonic Cemetery in Nashville. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. on Friday, August 22, 2025 and for one hour prior to Saturday’s services, both at the church. In honor of Larry’s love of sports, his family encourages visitors to wear jerseys or shirts from their favorite teams to the visitation: pro teams, school teams, anything. You can even wear a Cubs jersey if you absolutely have to. There will be a Masonic Service at 8 p.m. on Friday. In lieu of flowers, Memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Children’s Hospital or the Washington Lodge #55 Scholarship Fund. Styninger Funeral Home in Nashville is in charge of arrangements. Online expressions of sympathy may be made at ww.styningerfuneralhomes.com or on the funeral home’s page.

08/11/2025

Monday picture #7. COVID Nothing has affected our business in the last 35 years like Covid did. Our hearts break for those families that lost a loved one during this terrible time. Not only were they probably not able to see their family member in the hospital or nursing home for weeks but after they passed away they could not even have a public funeral or visitation. When some of the restrictions were finally lifted, we were still faced with a limit on how many people could attend the service, mask mandates, social distancing, hand sanitizer every so many feet and so on. The way we had to handle the transport and embalming of Covid deaths were also very much different and difficult. We can only pray our world never has to endure another pandemic like that again.

08/09/2025

Nola L. Kraft went to be with Jesus at 3:59 pm on August 4, 2025 at Friendship Manor Healthcare in Nashville. She attained the age of 93 years and 5 months. She was born March 4 1932 in Hoyleton IL, the daughter of Henry and Carrie Schuette. Baptized by Pastor Koestering of St. John Lutheran Church New MInden and confirmed in the faith at Trinity Lutheran Church in Nashville, IL. At a very young age she cleaned houses and did laundry for many people. She then worked at Hollywood Candy Factory in Ashley and Centralia eventually retiring from Miss Elaine’s in Centralia. In retirement she loved to take care of senior citizens, often cleaning, visiting and keeping them entertained. In 2004, she moved to New Minden to be closer to her children and grandchildren. She had a reaffirmation of faith and joined St. Johns Lutheran Church in New Minden where she was very active in the Ladies Aid. She enjoyed visiting with the ladies of the church, quilting and was active in serving at funeral dinners. She enjoyed going to Friendship Manor Healthcare and Washington County Hospital to visit, taking church bulletins and printed sermons. Spending time with and watching her family grow was one of her biggest joys. She enjoyed babysitting and spoiling her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Eventually she moved into Friendship Manor Healthcare and enjoyed making new friends and participating in the many activities available. Left to mourn her passing are three children, Sharon (Bill) Patton of Oakdale, Betty (Larry) Sachtleben of New Minden and Mike (Carol) Kraft of Nashville. Grandmother to 6 grandchildren, Wendy (Jeff) Bergmann, Brian (Dana) Patton, Angela (Josh) Maschhoff, Amy (Ryan) Blumhorst, Mark (Cassie) Sachtleben and Lacey (Alex) Wiegmann. She a very proud Great Grandmother of Johnna (Bryce) Pasczkiewitz, Riley, Joel and Tessa Bergmann, Alexis (fiance Lucas Wobbe), Jacob and Avery Patton, John and Sam Blumhorst, Nora and Warren Sachtleben, Kyler, Brayson, Zander and Huxton Maschhoff and Aubrey, Reed and Hunter Wiegmann along with many friends and extended family,
She was preceded in death by her parents, stepmother Emma Schuette, her siblings Hubert (Vera) Schuette, Roland (Doris) Schuette, Henry (Wilma) Schuette,Clara (Ray Hohman) (Bert) Highland, Alvera (Willie) Rodak, Arvie (Marga) Schuette,and Homer Schuette, son-in-law Bill Patton and Great Grandson Benjamin Wiegmann.

Funeral arrangements are through Styninger Funeral Home. Services will be August 12, 2025 at St. Johns Lutheran Church New Minden, IL at 11:00 am. Visitation will be held from 9:00 am to the beginning of the service with Pastor Tim Mueller officiating
Memorials can be made to St. Johns Lutheran Church, Friendship Manor Activity Fund or the donors choice

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