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SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013 DECATUR, ILLINOIS LOCAL D3 MACON COUNTY Griffin DECATUR Thomas Griffin, 78, Decatur, died Thursday (April 11, 2013). Arrangements incomplete: Fairlawn Funeral Home. Kapper DECATUR Shirley Kapper, 56 passed away in her residence with her family by her side at 9:04 a.m., Thursday, April 11, 2013. Private graveside services will be held to celebrate Shirley's life. Burial will be in Macon County Memorial Park Cemetery, Harristown.

Dawson Wikoff North Funeral Home is assisting the family with services. In lieu of flowers, Memorials may be made in her memory to the family. Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at www.dawson-wikoff.com. Shirley was born July 13, 1956 in Baltimore, MD the daughter of Charles and Clara (Hayes) Hood. She married Dennis E.

Kapper in 1979. Shirley was a wife, mother and did many things with children. She loved to assist in bible school, school functions, and Boy Scout events. She enjoyed her family, friends and neighbors. She also enjoyed reading, sewing, working puzzles and music.

She had formerly worked at some area nursing homes and volunteered at school as an Aid. Shirley is survived by her husband: Dennis of Decatur; sons: Daniel and Phillip Kapper both of Normal, IL; brothers: Charles Hood and his wife Pat of Decatur, Edward Hood of Decatur, and Ron Hood and his wife Sandy of Corona, CA, sisters: Jennie Jackson and her husband Gary of Macon and Judy Williams and her husband Gary of Findley, IL; father and mother -in-law: Maurice and Doris Kapper of Forsyth, IL brother -in-law: Kevin Kapper and his wife Elaine of Decatur; sister-in-laws: Donna Merrill and her husband Reggie of Argenta, IL and Vicki Largent and her husband Jeff of Decatur; many nieces and nephews also survive. She was preceded in death by her parents. Obituary written by family members. Walden DECATUR Lois Marie Walden, 75, of Decatur passed away on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in Decatur Memorial Hospital.

Lois was born on May 6, 1937 in Argenta, IL the daughter of Paul Frederick and Pearl Marie (Adams) Pfeifer. She enjoyed gardening and was a former member Parkway Lois Walden Church of the Nazarene. She married James Walden on February 19, 1955 in Decatur. He preceded her in death on January 3, 2005. Surviving are her children, Cathy Skow (James) of Decatur; James Walden (Teresa) of Decatur; Scott Leroy Walden of Decatur; Annette Allen (Phillip) of Decatur; brothers and sisters, Jean Blunt of Troy, IL; Terry Pfeifer of Arizona; Paul Pfeifer (Becky) of Decatur; Bonnie Seevers (Lyle) of Wisconsin; Diana Brooks (Kenny) of Florida), grandchildren, Cristy Patrick( Timothy); Lindsee Havener; Kacey York; (Joe); Cody Havener; Bradley Bullock; Holly Wright (Derrick); Jason Walden (Cassie); Melissa Walden; Matthew Walden (Alyssa); and great grandchildren, Aydan Patrick, Loki Patrick, Nicholl Boose, Colton Boose, Hayden Walden.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brother and sisters, Ronald Pfeifer, Shirley Bradshaw, Catherine Blankenship, and Gary Pfeifer. Funeral service to celebrate Lois' life will be 10 am Monday in Funeral Home. Visitation will be 2-4 PM Sunday in the funeral home. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery and conclude with the "Flight Home" ceremony. Memorials are suggested to American Heart Association.

The family of Lois Walden is being served by Fairlawn Funeral Home, 2091 N. Oakland Avenue, Decatur, IL. View the on line obituary and send condolences to the family at www.graceland fairlawn.com. Obituary written by family members. DEATHS LISTED Decatur, Macon County GRIFFIN, Thomas, Decatur GROVE-COOLING, Randi Jo, Decatur KAPPER, Shirley, Decatur McWILLIAMS, Timothy D.

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Obituary and guest book are online at www.herald-review.com/. obituaries Individuals who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Grove-Cooling DECATUR Randi Jo Grove-Cooling, 27, Decatur, registered nurse, died Wednesday (April 10, 2013). Services: 1 p.m.

Saturday, Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes, Decatur. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Burial: Mount Gilead Cemetery. Memorials: Harrison Cooling Memorial Fund, Decatur Earthmover Credit Union, 2600 Dividend Drive.

Send condolences: www.brintlinger andearl.com. McWilliams DECATUR Timothy D. McWilliams, 54, Decatur, died Friday (April 12, 2013). Arrangements incomplete: Moran Goebel Funeral Home. Nihiser DECATUR Mary M.

Nihiser, 67, Decatur, died Friday (April 12, 2013). Arrangements incomplete: Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes, Decatur. CENTRAL ILLINOIS Bryan ALTAMONT Steven Michael Bryan infant son of Steven Michael Bryan Sr. and Jill Kollman of Altamont, died Tuesday (April 9, 2013) in St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham.

Graveside services will be Saturday following visitation at St. Clare Cemetery, Altamont, with Rev. Dr. Lowell Donnelley officiating. Private family visitation will be Saturday at Gieseking Funeral Home in Altamont.

Memorials: to the family. Surviving are his parents; brothers, Brandon Michael and Preston Michael Bryan; sisters, Courtany Marie, Mary Ann, Jill Ann and River Lynn Bryan, all of Altamont; maternal grandparents, Debra Kollman (Michael Freeman) of Cape Girardeau, James Kollman of Altamont; paternal grandparents, Teresa Jones of Effingham and Dan Bryan of Teutopolis; as well as aunts and uncles. Fisher ASSUMPTION LaRaine Fisher, 85, Assumption, died Friday (April 12, 2013). Arrangements incomplete: Seitz Funeral Home, Assumption. Goodman ATLANTA Larry L.

Goodman, 58, Atlanta, died Thursday (April 11, 2013). Arrangements incomplete: Peasley Funeral Home, Lincoln. Kessel SHELBYVILLE Fred C. Kessel, 78, Shelbyville, died Friday (April 12, 2013). Arrangements incomplete: Lockart-Green Funeral Home, Shelbyville.

Fehrenbacher NEWTON Thomas R. Fehrenbacher, 77, died Wednesday (April 10, 2013). Services: 9:30 a.m. Monday, Holy Spirit Church, Maryland Heights, Mo, with 10 a.m. Mass.

Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Collier's Funeral Home, St. Ann, Mo. Burial: St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery, Island Grove.

Memorials: Holy Spirit HANDS, Maryland Heights, 63043 or Earl Collins Kiwanis Foundation, Box 2146, Washington, 63090. Send condolences: www.colliers funeralhome.com. Associated Press Maria Tallchief, a New York City Ballet ballerina, poses in 1954. Tallchief died Thursday at age 88. Ballet legend Tallchief dies at 88 Set bar for early prima ballerinas CHICAGO (AP) Maria Tallchief, one of America's first great prima ballerinas who gave life to such works as "The Nutcracker," "Firebird," and other masterpieces from legendary choreographer George Balanchine, has died.

She was 88. Tallchief died Thursday in Chicago, her daughter, Elise Paschen, said Friday. Tallchief danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo from 1942 to 1947, but her career was most associated with the New York City Ballet, where she worked from 1948 to 1965. Balanchine, the Russianborn dance genius, was not only the company's director; in 1946, he became Tallchief's husband for some years. She told Women's Wear Daily in 2003 that when she first worked with Balanchine she thought, 'I am seeing music.

This is I was a musician myself, and I thought, 'I am in my place I knew that that's the way I wanted to dance." Tallchief was one of five Oklahoma natives of American Indian descent who rose to prominence in the ballet world from the 1940s through the 1960s. She retired in 1965, when she started teaching the next generation of dancers. "My mother was a ballet legend, who was proud of her Osage heritage," Paschen said in a statement. "Her dynamic presence lit up the room. I will miss her passion, commitment to her art and devotion to her family.

She raised the bar high and strove for excellence in everything she did." Tallchief created roles in many of Balanchine's ballets, including "Orpheus" in 1948, and "Scotch Symphony" in 1952. She was the Sugar Plum Fairy in his original production of "The Nutcracker" in 1954. Jacques d'Amboise, a former New York City Ballet dancer who partnered with Tallchief in many performances, said she was the Mount Everest of dance. "She was the perfect representative of the American ballerina," said d'Amboise, who with the National Dance Institute in New York. "There i is one word for her: Grand.

She was absolutely grand." In the 1970s, Tallchief served as artistic director of the Lyric Opera Ballet in Chicago. She later founded and was artistic director of the Chicago City Ballet. In 1996, Tallchief became one of five artists to receive the Kennedy Center Honors for their lifelong contributions to American culture. Tallchief was born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief in 1925, on a reservation in Fairfax, Okla. Visiting teachers gave her lessons, and her mother later moved the family to Los Angeles so she and her sister could receive additional training.

Associated Press Google employees shoot pool at in a break room at the Google campus in Mountain View, Companies say extraordinary campuses are a necessity, to recruit and retain top talent. Happy to work Tech firms using extreme perks to recruit, retain CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world-class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters. Facebook, while putting final touches on a Disney-inspired campus including a Main Street with a barbecue shack, sushi house and bike shop, is already planning an even larger, more exciting new campus.

More than ever before, Silicon Valley firms want their workers at work. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has gone so far as to ban working from home, and many more offer prodigious incentives for coming in to the office, such as free meals, massages and gyms. This spring, as the tech industry is soaring out of the Great Recession, plans are in the works for a flurry of massive, perk-laden headquarters. "We're seeing the mature technology companies trying to energize their work environments, getting rid of cube farms and investing in facilities to compete for talent," said Kevin Schaeffer, a principal at architecture and design firm Gensler in San Jose. "That's caused a huge transition in the way offices are laid out." New Silicon Valley headquarters or expansions are under way at most of the Area high school and elementary students receiving academic honors include: Muffley School Third Quarter High Honors Sixth Grade: Brehia Beard, Jesse Cooper, Dannayshia Knight, Taylor Prasun, Ashley Russell, Caprice Walker Fifth Grade: Matthew Case, Emily Griffin, Brenden Hubbard, Kasey Lenard-Hill, Niauna Patterson, Bryson Shafer, Isabella Taylor, Kalea Thomas Fourth Grade: Mentor Ballazhi, Justin Dong, Jayda Houston, Cheyenne Johnson, Shonntrez Moore Abigail Tate, Madison Tenn Third Grade: Andrew Case, Jayden Elliott, Sophie Howe, Alyssa Kennedy, Amiyah Landgrebe, Jaylei Lawary, Alyssa Monson, Isabella Tate, Oakley Tate, Olivia Tirey, Kaitlyn Treacy, Colin White, Reese York Second Grade: Drilon Ballazhi, Tessa Benedict, Damien Brackett, Jordan Coins, Arwen Emmons, Paul Folks Kaden Fowler, Halle Gude, Colton Peck, Madison Prasun, Tristan Sandage, Cale Smith First Grade: Breyah Austin, Emma Bement, Ashley Browning, Breaunna Buckles, Rylinn Harvey, Tristan Joyner, Corbyn Manion, Samarra Mann, Baylie Robertson, Mason Ryherd, Jamaya Wood- land Honors Sixth Grade: Trevor Allen, Corben Boyer, Christian Cruse, Trai Dobbs, Daniella Estrada, Quasanna Jones, Michael Kidd, Amonii Kirk, Samuel Morton, Conor Reynolds, Samantha Thomas, Makayla Vatter, Terrence Walter, Alysse West, Noah Whitaker Fifth Grade: Richard Burdine, Bryce Campbell, Logan Christian, Jade Clark, Shartayrrhia Dandridge, Jessica Lowe, Riley Matlock, Dillon McColley, Aidan MelIon, Raymond Nagy Peyton area's major including eBay, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia and Oracle.

Many will be huge: Apple 176-acre campus will be one of the world's largest workplaces. Inside, there are walls you can draw on, pingpong tables, Lego stations, gaming arcades and free haircuts. Critics say that while some workplace perks and benefits are a good thing, the large, multibillion-dollar corporate headquarters are colossal wastes of money. "Companies led by older management tend to be very controlling, but when I look at people in the 20s or 30s, they're totally capable of working on their own and being productive," said Kevin Wheeler, whose Future of Talent Institute researches and consults on human resources for Silicon Valley businesses. "To have artificial structures that require everybody to be in the office at certain hours of the day is simply asinine." Companies say extraordinary campuses are necessary to recruit and retain top talent and to spark innovation and creativity.

And there are business benefits and financial results for companies that keep their workers happy. The publicly traded 100 Best Companies To Work For in America consistently outperform major stock indices and have more qualified job applicants and higher productivity, according to the San Franciscobased Great Place to Work Institute. That may not always be obvious, however. "People do work really, really hard here," Facebook spokesman Slater Tow said as an engineer glided past a row of second floor confer- HONOR ROLL Pucek, Marshayla Scott, Sydni Shafer, Kenya Sorrell, Damari Thomas, Jordan Turner, Jaydi Wagner, Kyle Woods Fourth Grade: Jadaeshiana Bell, Zachary Burris, Nicholas Gude, JVon Johnson, Timothy Loeffler Alanna Neff, Danasia Nelson, Michael Pundt, Summer Sadowski, Mekhi Smith, Jamyria Taylor, Keshia Taylor, Jayden Turner Third Grade: Dustin Corrington, Taylor Daykin, Preston Hauck, Jaelynn Lee, Linzie Marlow, Evan Mellon, Tyler Moore, Azlynn Padderatz-Mcnicol, Shyann Thurston, Gaige Vincent, Myles Wicker, Joshua Wilson, Natalie Wilson, John Woods Second Grade: Jason Clark, Jillian Krieger, Andrew Pundt, Elly Rheude, Julia Shepard, Carson Kidd, Demeshiona Miller-Fonville, Alexander Parker, Javiann Porter, Aryion Stanley, Hanah Williams First Grade: Selena Aguon, Dean Bond Tucker Burrus, Derimus Golden Morgan Parmar, Autumn Ray, Shylon Robinson, Danaijah Weaver, Mary Irwin, Thomas Sherman, Grady Spitzer The Herald Review welcomes announcements of Central 'They want 80, 90, 100 hours of work. In order to even make that tolerable, of course you have to offer haircuts and Kevin Wheeler, Future of Talent Institute researcher ence rooms on a skateboard.

"They have to be passionate about what they do. If they're not, we would rather someone who is." He points out the Jumbotron frame for outdoor movies, the Nacho Royale taqueria, a bank branch with tellers standing by, an artist in residence. Traditional benefits are part of the Silicon Valley packages as well. Facebook Inc. offers free train passes, a shuttle to work, a month of paid vacation, full health care and stock options.

Wheeler said the megacomplexes being built today will be hard to staff 10 years from now, and the next era will see smaller workplaces where employees are responsible for meeting achievements and objectives, and have flexibility about when they come in to their office. "When you look at how some of these companies operate, they're in effect, sweat shops. They want 80, 90, 100 hours of work. In order to even make that tolerable, of course you have to offer haircuts and food and places to sleep or else people would have to go home," he said. Illinois youth and college students making news.

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