Some participants in the 31st annual Kankakee and Iroquois Rivers Clean Up on Saturday will likely leave earlier than the noon wrap-up time for the event.
The funeral of one of the cleanup's founders, 88-year-old Kankakee River advocate Orville Reed, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home, west Kankakee. Visitation will be held there 4-8 p.m. today.
Reed, of Kankakee, was founder and owner of Reed's Rent All and Sales and Reed's Canoe Trips — now operated by his son Larry Reed, of Kankakee, and stepson Jim Reed, of Chebanse.
Orville also was a founder of the Northern Illinois Anglers Association in 1979, served as its treasurer and president and board member for at least 10 years.
He was a founder not only of the cleanup in 1983, but of the Kankakee River Valley Fishing Derby in '84.
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