Over the years I have collected many obituaries from many different resources.  I either received them from family members, emails, letters or websites.

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - May 15, 1992
Deceased Name: Thomas G. Dobyns TAYLORVILLE -- Thomas Gilbert Dobyns
80, of Taylorville, died at 3:10 p.m.

Thursday at St. Vincent Memorial Hospital, Taylorville.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Shafer Funeral Home, Taylorville, with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Taylorville.

Surviving are three sons, Thomas of Florida, Jerry of Taylorville and Terry of Missouri; five daughters, Betty Jackson, Vivian Poorman, Helen Sheedy, Janice Sexton and Sheila Keller, all of Taylorville; 17 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Clarabelle Clark and Eunice Cates, both of South Bend, Ind., and Arreda DeParto of Osceola, Ind.
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