A Chillicothe man has been found dead at Hamm's Holiday Harbor near the Illinois River. Kent Hamm, 57, was last seen Jan. 20 at the Shell gas station on
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Peoria County Coroner s Office
PEORIA, Ill. Over the past few months, the Peoria County Coroner’s Office has used a Mobile Morgue to ensure, despite a rising number of local deaths, families’ loved ones were properly handled and cared for after their deaths.
On Monday, January 25, the Mobile Morgue Trailer was taken out of operation.
Coroner Jamie Harwood says an expected surge of COVID-related deaths after the holidays was significantly less and more manageable than anticipated.
“The Mobile Morgue suited our purpose, and the purpose of that was to make sure when people were passing away here in Peoria County and surrounding counties, we would have a proper disposition to place them in until a final disposition could be made,” he said. “Everyone deserves respect during their demise, so we were able to provide that for them.”
Peoria County Coroner s Office
PEORIA, Ill. Over the past few months, the Peoria County Coroner’s Office has used a Mobile Morgue to ensure, despite a rising number of local deaths, families’ loved ones were properly handled and cared for after their deaths.
On Monday, January 25, the Mobile Morgue Trailer was taken out of operation.
Coroner Jamie Harwood says an expected surge of COVID-related deaths after the holidays was significantly less and more manageable than anticipated.
“The Mobile Morgue suited our purpose, and the purpose of that was to make sure when people were passing away here in Peoria County and surrounding counties, we would have a proper disposition to place them in until a final disposition could be made,” he said. “Everyone deserves respect during their demise, so we were able to provide that for them.”
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Midwest Communications
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim as a longtime area doctor.
Harwood said 92-year-old William Marshall sustained multiple stab wound to the front and back of his body.
Harwood declined to give more details because of an ongoing police investigation.
His bio on the University of Illinois at Chicago website reads as follows:
Following his time in the Navy, Dr. Marshall spent time training in general surgery with Dr. Warren H. Cole and as his research assistant and an instructor in surgery.  He then went to the University of Louisville as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. He returned to Peoria in 1964 to join the Peoria Surgical Group. In the early 1970s he was asked to work on the development and organization of the surgery department for the new Peoria School of Medicine. He was the first chair of the Department of Surgery and led the department from 1972 to 1982.