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A8 MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2018 DECATUR HERALD REVIEW 1 Puckett ASSUMPTION Carl L. Puckett, 77, of Assumption passed away January 13, 2018 in Decatur Memorial Hospital surrounded by family. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, January 18, 2018 at Seitz Funeral Home in Assumption. Visitation will be held on Wednesday evening from 4-7 p.m.

at Seitz Funeral Home, Assumption with Masonic Rites immediately following. Burial will be in St. Cemetery with Full Military Rites by the Assumption Honor Guard. Memorials may be made to the Assumption VFW Memorial or Central FFA. Carl was born November 9, 1940 in Pana, IL the son of Ralph F.

and Blanche E. (Gildersleeve) Puckett. He married Carolyn J. Bantner in Assumption, August 23, 1963. She preceded him in death July 11, 2014.

Carl was a member of Bromwell Masonic Lodge 451, American Legion Post 284, and Ansar Shrine. He proudly served in the United States Army from 1960-1962. He began working at the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in 1962 and retired in 1993, he was also the owner of Plumbing for over 20 years. Carl was an avid Cubs fan, and enjoyed following the Central Raiders, St. Teresa Bulldogs, and Rochester Rockets athletics.

He enjoyed spending his free time shooting trap, watching westerns, and rarely missed a morning of co ee at the He was passionate about his country and his town, serving on the Assumption City Council for 8 years. Surviving are his children: Cheryl (Eric) Swigert of Chelli (Jim) Branyan of Assumption, John Puckett of Assumption, Cara (Kevin) Reiser of Rochester, IL; grandchildren: Courtney (Brian) Hiler, Chelbi (Sheldon) Williams-Alt, Blair (Wesley) Chapple, Bailey (Justin) Haynes, Bradi Branyan (Dustin Cornwell), Beau Branyan, Kolton Reiser, Carli Reiser, and Keith Swigert; 6 great grandchildren: Cale Chapple, George Hiler, Charlee Chapple, Carsen Chapple, Holden and Hazel Haynes; brothers: Paul Puckett, Pana, IL and Kenny (Jeanne) Puckett, Oreana, IL; sister: Betty Temmen, Pana, IL. He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, sisters: Dorothy LeDuc, Barbara Webb, Helen Eddy, brothers: Ronald Puckett, Charles Ray Puckett (in infancy), granddaughter: Casey Williams; and great-grandson: Gus Hiler. The family would like to thank the Decatur Memorial Hospital ICU nursing sta Dr. Rajasurya, Dr.

Minnaganti, and Brenda Warnick for their wonderful care and kindness toward Carl and his family. Seitz Funeral Home, Assumption has been entrusted with the care and service arrangements. Condolences for the family may be left at www.seitzfh.com. OBITUARIES, FROM PAGE A6 NEWS ABOUT THE WRITER: Peter Myers is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a member of the Ashbrook Master of Arts in Political Science and Government program faculty. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

PETER MYERS InsideSources.com ifty years ago, one of key civil rights leaders the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. As we honor legacy on the Jan. 15 federal holiday, the quiz below, from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio, provides an opportunity to test your knowledge of the civil rights leader.

REDISCOVERING AMERICA MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY QUIZ ON A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON 1. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. what man as the major on his theology? A.

Reinhold Niebuhr B. Edgar Brightman C. Walter Rauschenbusch D. Paul Tillich 2. In 1960, King became pastor of which church? A.

Wheat Street Baptist in Atlanta B. Dexter Avenue Baptist in Montgomery, Alabama C. 16th Street Baptist in Birmingham, Alabama D. Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta 3. What was given name at birth? A.

Martin B. Montgomery C. Michael D. Luther 4. The president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was what man? A.

Marion Barry B. John Lewis C. James Lawson D. Stokely Carmichael 5. In 1966, King rented an apartment in which city to protest ghetto conditions there? A.

Los Angeles B. Chicago C. New York City D. Detroit 6. King told an interviewer that if he were marooned on a desert island with only one book other than the Bible, he would choose what book? A.

Karl Communist B. Frederick of the Life of Frederick C. W.E.B. Du Souls of Black D. 7.

Who was not a member of the of the civil rights movement? A. Whitney Young B. Bayard Rustin C. A. Philip Randolph D.

Roy Wilkins 8. Which famous singer reportedly urged King to them about the during his March on Washington speech? A. Nina Simone B. Ella Fitzgerald C. Marian Anderson D.

Mahalia Jackson 9. Which civil rights leader died on the eve of the March on Washington? A. Charles Hamilton Houston B. W.E.B. Du Bois C.

A. Philip Randolph D. Langston Hughes 10. In 1958, King referred to what political as possibly the most dangerous man in America? A. J.

Edgar Hoover B. George Wallace C. Richard Nixon D. Barry Goldwater Answers: 1-C, 2-D, 3-C, 4-D, 5-A, 6-B, 7-B, 8-D, 9-B, 10-C ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTOS Crowds are shown in front of the Washington Monument, the site of Martin Luther King famous have a speech, during the March on Washington for civil rights on Aug. 28, 1963.

Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in 1960 in Atlanta. JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Southern states that once fought to maintain racial segregation are now banding together to promote civil rights tourism at sites including the building where the Confederacy was born and the motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

died. Fourteen states stretching from Kansas to Delaware, including all of the Deep South, are joining to promote the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, which will highlight about 130 sites linked to the modern civil rights movement. The joint ort is being unveiled as part of the MLK holiday weekend. Individual Southern states have used such promotions for years, beginning with a black history trail launched by Alabama in the 1980s, but never before have they joined together in a single push to bolster civil rights tourism, said Lee Sentell, a leader of the ort.

wants to showcase their landmarks. For the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, saying happened here changed the said Sentell, tourism director. Most states participating in the promotion are part of the Atlanta-based Travel South USA, which is funded by state tourism agencies to lure visitors to the region. The organization has launched civilrightstrail.com and is placing advertisements in national magazines to promote the trail.

Landmarks on the trial include churches, courthouses, schools, businesses and other sites that played a role in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and plus memorials and museums that document the period. Some of the sites on the list are familiar, like Capitol. Delegates met in the white- domed building to form the Confederate States of America in 1861, and King spoke outside the building at the end of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march in 1965. The trail also features the National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel where King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, and the MLK National Historic Site in Atlanta. Other locations are less well- known, like schools in Topeka, Kansas, that were part of the Brown vs.

Board of Education case that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools in 1954, or Howard High School of Technology, part of another de- segregation case in Wilmington, Delaware. The trail includes locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. It also features the District of Columbia, with attractions including the Lincoln Memorial, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the U.S. Supreme Court building.

The trail is the product of a suggestion made two years ago by then-National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis, who wanted historians to document surviving civil rights landmarks, Sentell said. Researchers at Georgia State University located 60 sites, and states added about 70 more. Alabama, which was the site of racial violence and multiple civil rights protests in the early 1960s, has the most locations featured on the trail at 29. That include a new memorial to lynching victims scheduled to open later this year in Montgomery. Sentell said the main goal of the trial is get tourists to cross state lines and to learn about things that happened in various someone is going to Montgomery and Selma, and we want them to go to Jackson, Mississippi, to learn about the story there and go to the Mississippi Delta and then to he said.

European visitors are a primary target of the campaign, he said. States join to promote civil rights tourism ASSOCIATED PRESS In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, le photo, people wait in line to enter the National Civil Rights Museum on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Memphis, Tenn. The site is among about 130 locations in 14 states being promoted as part of the new U.S.

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