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Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017, at University of Chicago Medicine after receiving great care after a heart transplant.Jim was born Sept. 1, 1957, in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., the son of James Lee and Glenice (McGuire) Marlowe. He married Linda Drake on Oct. 1, 1978, in the Wyanet Bible Church. She survives.Jim’s father was in the U.S. Army and they moved often, mostly residing in Missouri and Illinois. He graduated from Tombstone High School in Arizona with the Class of 1975. He received his associates degree in computer science. He was employed at Jostens in Princeton for 20 years, United Steel Decking in Peru for 10 years and most recently at Thompson’s Electric, retiring in 2015.He was a member of Bunker Hill Church of God in Buda. Jim was a dog lover, especially his great danes. He was an avid reader, enjoyed movies and spending time with his family.Also surviving are thre sons, James Lee (Megan) Marlowe III of Bloomington, Joshua Adam Marlowe of Normal and Jeremy Tyler (fiance Susan) Marlowe of Mishawaka, Ind.; two grandchildren, Aiden James and Chloe Grace Marlowe, both of Bloomington; and one sister, Susan (Charles) Boudreaux of Louisiana.He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents.Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, at Bunker Hill Church of God in Buda with Pastor Stephen Myong and Pastor Fred Criminger officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery in Wyanet.Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the church.Memorials may be directed to the family to be designated at a later date.The Grant-Johnson Funeral Home is assisting the family. Online condolences may be left at www.grant-johnsonfh.com. (Bureau County Republican)

Scott Walker in the 2018 election. Several other Democrats have stepped up to make the race, and Soglin may well end up backing one of them.But were Soglin to seek the governorship, the contrast with Walker would be as stark as any that has been seen in the history of Wisconsin.That became clear last week, as leaders across the country wrestled with the unsettled questions of the Civil War and its aftermath. Following the horrific events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where champions of the Confederacy and their Nazi allies gathered to object to the removal of statues honoring those who took up arms against the United States as part of a struggle to preserve human bondage. President Donald Trump tried to blur the distinction between those who defend the Confederacy’s racist legacy (and the white supremacist and white nationalist movements that extend from it) and those who object to racism, xenophobia, sexism and inequality. Trump tried to suggest that the blame for “hatred, bigotry and violence” should be placed “on many sides." And he later claimed that some “very fine people” were marching in Charlottesville “to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”Walker’s reaction was to announce that, while he personally objected to bigotry and hatred, “I’ll let the president and his team speak for him.” Given repeated opportunities to denounce Trump’s stunning statements, or at least to distance himself from his party’s president, Walker refused.The governor provided zero leadership for his party, his state or his country.Soglin, on the other hand, responded decisively — with words and deeds. He ordered the removal of city-owned monuments in Madison’s Forest Hill Cemetery, one of which referred to the Southern troops buried there as “valiant Confederate soldiers” and “unsung heroes” of the Confederate States of America. A pair of Confederate battle flags topped the memorial. Appreciate these insights? Get Cap Times opinion s... (Madison.com)