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
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Wed, 07/23/2014 - 11:49am
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