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STAUNTON, Va. - Terry Laverne Weech, 87, formerly of Urbana, passed away Thursday (June 5, 2025) in Staunton, Va.
Mr. Weech was the widower of Eunice Hovis Weech, who passed away in Urbana on Oct. 16, 2022.
Mr. Weech was born to Clarence D. and Ethel Marce Weech on July 8, 1937, in Knox County.
Surviving are his sister-in-law, Brenda Bruce, and her husband, Timothy, of Staunton; and cousins, Wilber Rehmann of Helena, Mont., and Susan Henry Anderson of Cambridge.
Mr. Weech graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, where he majored in philosophy. He obtained a master's and Ph.D. in library science from the University of Illinois. He was the head of the Library Science Department at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Miss., and an assistant professor in the School of Library Science at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
For over 40 years, he was an associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois. Mr. Weech's research focus was international librarianship, library and information science education, collection development, management and assessment of library services, government information resources, economics of information, intellectual freedom issues and public librarianship. He traveled extensively, participating in American Library Association and International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions conferences, around the world, but primarily in Eastern Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. Weech established the Terry and Eunice Weech Intellectual Freedom Endowment Fund at the University of Illinois Foundation to advocate and educate for Intellectual Freedom.
The family requests that donations in Mr. or Mrs. Weech's honor be made to this fund or to the American Cancer Society.
Burial will be private in the family burial plot in Oneida Cemetery, Oneida. Coffman Funeral Home and Crematory, 230 Frontier Drive, Staunton, is in charge of arrangements.
Condolences may be expressed to the family online at coffmanfuneralhome.net.
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