Jim Yost, who operated Owens Funeral Home in Champaign and Blair-Owens Funeral Home in Mahomet, was taking part in the World War II Airborne Demonstration Team’s semi-annual jump school near Frederick, Okla. CHAMPAIGN — A Champaign funeral home operator with an appetite for adventure and a larger-than-life personality died Tuesday during a parachute jump in Oklahoma, according to authorities in that state. read more