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Chad M. Matthews


  
 
  
  
Date Of Death: 07/07/2010
  
Visitation: Friends may call at the Campagna Funeral Home at Okawville on Friday from 4 P.M. until 8 P.M. and on Saturday from 8 A.M. until the service hour.
 
Services: In accordance with the wishes of the family, cremation was performed.

Memorial services will be held at the Campagna Funeral Home of Okawville, IL on Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 10 A.M. with Fr. Jack Joyce officiating. Interment of ashes will be in the St. Barbara Catholic Cemetery at Okawville.


Memorials: Should friends desire, memorials may be made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure and will be accepted by the Campagna Funeral Home.

Mr. Chad Matthews of Nashville, IL departed this life at the Allen Branch Recreation Complex on Carlyle Lake on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 8:00 A.M. due to an accidental drowning. He had attained the age of 31 years, 10 months and 27 days.

Chad was born at Camp Pendelton, CA on August 10, 1978 the son of Randy and Becky (nee Recker) Matthews.

Chad graduated from McKendree College with a degree in Industrial Arts. He worked as a union contractor and was currently employed at the Prairie State Energy Campus in rural Washington County, IL. Chad enjoyed skydiving and had a love of the outdoors. He enjoyed going camping and fishing.

Left to mourn his passing is a son, Keegan Matthews of Centralia, IL; his father, Randy Matthews of Okawville; his mother, Becky Just and husband Pete of Simpsonville, SC; a sister, Angie Matthews of Simpsonville, SC; maternal grandfather, Robert Recker of Ava, IL; a nephew, Nicholas Matthews; aunts, uncles, other relatives as well as a host of friends.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Joshua Matthews; maternal grandmother, Myrtle Recker; paternal grandfather, Charles B. Matthews Jr. and paternal grandmother, Maryanna Matthews.

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