Kermit Harden, a former Urbana superintendent, Champaign County board member, decorated war veteran and visiting UI professor, died in his sleep Wednesday at age 94, according to family members. URBANA — In the end, it was neither frostbite in the below-freezing conditions of World War II, nor wartime food scarcity, nor a late-in-life heart attack overseas that stopped longtime Urbana public servant Kermit Harden. It was just time. read more