University of Illinois Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Roscoe Peithman
ROSCOE E. "ROCKY" PEITHMAN died unexpectedly but peacefully on February 18, one week before his 102nd birthday. A resident of McKinleyville, he was born on the family farm in Hoyleton Township, Illinois on February 26, 1913 son of Edward H. and Sarah Jane Peithman. He attended the one-room country school nearby and completed high school in Centralia, Illinois. He attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, receiving a B.S. with a major in physics in 1935. While teaching in local...
