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Robert Spellman

Anna-Jonesboro, Illinois

1937 - 2021

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ANNA-JONESBORO, Ill. - Husband of 62 years. Father to five girls. Man of God.

Robert Spellman was born April 8, 1937, in Grandfield, Okla., and grew up in Urbana, Ohio, a town he fiercely loved, the son of Robert Sr. and Flossie (Crane) Spellman, with his late brother, Bill, and his...

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My sincere condolences to the Spellman family. I lived on East Court St. with Bob, went to Central Ward and Urbana High School where we graduated in 1955.
Charles E. Brinnon Major AUS Retired

Please accept our deepest condolences, to you and the family. I will have a glass of Alto Blush wine in his memory

In the first session of Media Law with Prof. Spellman we reviewed the syllabus and he assigned readings from our case book. At the beginning of the second session, the professor asked me to give him the facts in Near v. Minnesota. I was forced to admit to my great embarrassment that I had not read the case. He said nothing. No more than 30 seconds into the beginning of our third session, Professor Spellman asked me again for the facts in Near v. Minnesota, which I related in great detail and...

I'm so sorry for your loss. Bob was an amazing man. I know he will be missed by so many. We will keep all of you in our prayers