The King Holiday Commitee presented NAACP Peoria Branch president Marvin Hightower with a Dr. Martin Luther King commemorative leadership award Monday.

Born on February 17, 1929, in East Peoria, IL, to Jacob and Louise Hugh Wiegand, she married her high school sweetheart, Harold Walter Winkler, on July 29, 1950, at Trinity Lutheran Church in ...

Willow Knolls Drive, Peoria, IL. Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 25, at 10 a.m. at the Apostolic Christian Church, 3420 N. Sheridan Road, Peoria. Church ministers will officiate.