Zeigler, Illinois Website

Zeigler's Citizens Remembered

Some citizens do great things,
others just happen to be at the right place at the right time
and others are just fortunate to have lived or live in Zeigler -
a great community that the citizens have, are or will change the world.

You just got to read about them here.

From the inventor of the Light Emitting Diode (LED) to baseball greats and those that just make a difference around the world.

These pages are for history sake and for rememberance sake.

Just because they are on this page does not mean that they are deceased - matter of fact most are still with us.

This list is by no means all of them - So many in Zeigler Give so much back.

The Names are not in any special Order.

Karen 'Goessman' Anderson

Artist & Leader

Send info on you or someone in your family and we will add it here

Zeigler HS 1944 - 1962

& Mr. Krutsinger, Principal

Slide Show

by Dave Seibert

Click Here and you can get a

free copy of this DVD

for the price of Postage

Cecil Spain

Zeigle's Post Man (person)

Levi Leiter

Founder of Zeigler

Nathan Arnett

Music Director for J.A. Logan College

Click on the Name to read about Nathan

Click on the Photo to see More.

Mike Milosevich

Baseball Great

Byron Corcoran

US Army Band

Anna Mae Hardin

retired City Clerk

Dr. Clint Connor

came home to Zeigler as a Doctor

Click on the Name to read about Clint

Click on the Photo to see More.

Nick Holonyak

(inventor of LED)

(Light Emitting Diode)

Della & Mitch Mitchell

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Mike "Mollie" Milosevich

01/13/1915 - 02-03-1966

Yankees Baseball Player

1944-1945

1944 - SLG .308

1945 - SLG. .246

Uniform Number

1944 - # 12

1945 - # 26

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Raymond Null

Detective Hall of Fame
Author, Screen Writer

Karla Horn

Analyst for The Pentagon

Dennis Croessmann

Sandia National Laboratories

Susan "Breeze" Neid

Director of Quality Assurance,
Sara Lee Corporation

Kenneth (Herb) Hannah

VP at Boeing Company

Brian Brandon

Options Trader

James D. Hubbard

Patriotic Writings

Jim Flood's story

about

HOPE

Willaim & Mary Kvietkaukas/Kutcosky
Family

Eva & John Venoski Family

Margurine Sheffer
School Teacher

Buddy Ingersoll

Racer - Race Car Consultant & Mechanic and so much more in his tenure in racing.

Owen "Pappy" Kern

School Principal

J. William (Bill) Bell

editor of technology journal

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Living or Deceased is ok.

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Dessie Bowman

9/1/1902 - 8/22/2006

Robert L. "Bob" Proctor

1929-2008

Mary Burnett
Librarian - Help get the 1st Library

Mary Burnett - the First Librarian

Zeigler's First Librarian

The Rieger Family

Wayne Beldo at the Cities Services Station on Coxspur and HWY 148

Wayne Beldo in Front of his Texaco Station on the Circle - Beldo ran this station upon his return from WWII where he served as a medic in France. He ran and then owned the station from Oct. 1945 - 1980.

The Picture on the left is Cities Service Station that Wayne Belldo ran on the corner of Coxspur and Route 148 before the war with Carol 'Beldo' Griffith's dad, Werner Beldo. The Cities Service Station also housed a barber shop. It burned down around 1950. Later, the A & W Rootbeer stand occupied that spot. Paul Beatty built the root beer stand. Paul who was a teacher and coach at the high school, hired Corol's brother, Werner, who was in high school at the time, to help him build it.

(Picture & Words from Carol "Beldo' Griffith)

Some links are to the Zeigler High School Vortex website

Page updated on January 15, 2011