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.