Ronald J. Eagan, Sr., passed from this life to his heavenly home at 6:25 p.m., Saturday, January 17, 2015 at Carle Foundation Hospital surrounded by his loving family.

Funeral Services celebrating his life will be held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at the First Baptist Church of Atwood, 231 North Illinois Street, Atwood, IL with Dr. Lanny Faulkner and Pastor Curt Weaver officiating. Visitation will be held from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at the church. Burial will be in the Lake Fork Cemetery, rural Atwood, IL. Hilligoss Shrader Funeral Home, 66 East US Highway 36, Atwood, IL is entrusted with the arrangements.

Mr. Eagan was born at Hammond, Illinois on November 21, 1933, the son of Chester and Esther Weakley Eagan. He graduated from Atwood-Hammond High School in 1951 and married the love of his life, Charlotte M. Anderson on August 16, 1953. She survives.

Also surviving are: his sister, Barb Chilton of Fort Collins, Colorado; three children: Sherrie (Joe) Wolfe, Ronald (Diane) Eagan, Jr., and Melodie (Brian) Keown; three grandchildren: Jason (Alicia) Wolfe, Katie (Nathan) Patrick, and Emily (Joe) Schweighart; and eight great-grandchildren: Hudson, Griffin, and Marlowe Wolfe; Eva, Paisley, and Blaine Patrick; Madison Schweighart and Lanie Burchett.

In earlier years, Mr. Eagan was a meat cutter for his father's grocery store in Atwood, and later engaged in farming for the family. In 1970, he purchased the school busses and has hauled students of the Atwood-Hammond School District for the past forty-four years. In 1991, he was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He received the 'Friends of Basketball' award and spent many years as scorekeeper for Atwood-Hammond High School basketball games.

Mr. Eagan was a member and Elder of the First Baptist Church in Atwood, where he also sang in the choir and the praise team. He also sang bass in the southern gospel singing group 'Power of Praise' for the past sixteen years.

Mr. Eagan served on the Board of Directors for the First State Bank in Atwood. Through the years, his interests included playing golf and loved watching sports on television where he followed the Fighting Illini and the Chicago Cubs.

Main Street in downtown Atwood will never be the same without seeing his vehicle parked there. He loved his family, his church and community, and everyone who was blessed to have known him knew he had a big heart.

Memorials made be made out to the First Baptist Church in Atwood.

Online condolences may be sent to the family via hilligossshraderfh.com