Service Tuesday for SCI student, one of four killed in accident
<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Imperial">Springfield College in Illinois/Benedictine University today is holding a memorial prayer service for freshman student Katelyn "Katie" McCarty, 19, of Taylorville - one of four area teenagers killed in a fiery single-vehicle crash in Logan County late Friday. </font>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Imperial">Meanwhile, the two survivors pulled from the burning wreckage, who also are SCI-Benedictine students, continued to recuperate Monday at Memorial Medical Center. </font>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Imperial">McCarty was killed along with Katherine L. "Katie" Carpentier, 15, of Lincoln; Ross B. Conrady, 18, of Elkhart; and Christopher J. McGlasson, 19, of Middletown. </font>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Imperial">Conrady and Carpentier were a senior and a sophomore at Lincoln Community High School, respectively, and McGlasson was a 2006 graduate of LCHS.</font>
<font face="Imperial">SCI/Benedictine's service for McCarty is scheduled for noon today at Marguerite Matthews Chapel in Dawson Hall on the school's campus. Msgr. Thomas Holinga of St. Joseph Church in Springfield will lead the service. </font>
<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Imperial">The four teens were killed when the extended-cab pickup they were in hit a tree and caught fire at the bottom of a curved stretch of road near where 1300th Street crosses Polecat Hill just east of Middletown.</font>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Imperial">The two survivors, Zach Rickord and Clark Schoonover, are both Lincoln Community High graduates. Rickord was listed in serious condition at Memorial Monday night, while Schoonover was in fair condition.</font>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Imperial">They were pulled to safety by Mike Boyer, who with his wife came upon the accident scene as they were returning from a basketball game in Lincoln to their home on a farm near Middleton.</font>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">On Monday evening, a candlelight vigil followed by a caravan to the accident site was planned at Lincoln Community High. But snowy conditions and poor visibility prompted school officials to cancel the event at the school.
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">More than 100 people, mainly teenagers, made the trek to Polecat Hill anyway. The crowd gathered near four crosses erected for the victims, held candles and prayed for the deceased, as well as for Rickord and Schoonover.
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">A remembrance blog has been set up at http://friendsgonebutnotforgotten.blogspot.com, where friends have shared photograph slideshows and memorial plans, including special ribbons to wear at school and bumper stickers.
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Also Monday, funeral arrangements were released for Conrady and McGlasson.
<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Conrady's visitation will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Lincoln Community High followed by a funeral at 10 a.m. Thursday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lincoln.
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Visitation for McGlasson will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jefferson Street Christian Church in Lincoln followed by a funeral service at the church at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">An entry on the blog from the Carpentier family indicated a memorial service will be held for Carpentier from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at Jefferson Street Christian Church. Open visitation will be from noon until 2 p.m., and the memorial will be from 2 to 3 p.m.
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<p class="BODY" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Amanda Reavy can be reached at (217) 788-1525.
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