DECATUR â As bagpiper Griffin Coffman played in the background, Lloyd Holman, co-chairman of the Workers Memorial Day ceremony for Decatur Trades & Labor Assembly, read the dozens and dozens of names of Macon County workers who have died on the job.
State Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, was the keynote speaker at the Workers Memorial Day ceremony.
CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW
Three of those names were new this year: Erick T. Ervin, who worked for Love's Truck Stop and died while trying to rescue a stranded motorist; John E. Sheehy, a firefighter; and State Trooper Todd Hanneken, the most recent death on March 25. Hanneken's family was present to lay the wreath at the memorial on the west side of the Macon County Courthouse.