DANNY DUNNAGAN, 57, of Morrison, died Tuesday at Mercy Medical Center, Clinton. A private funeral Mass will be celebrated Saturday at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Morrison with the Rev. Gary Lawlor officiating. Burial with military rites will follow at Grove Hill Cemetery. Visitation is from 2 to 8 p.m. today at the McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls, Ill., with the family present from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. He was born May 20, 1946, in Danville, Ill., to Arvel Gist and Fern Charolette Talbert Dunagan. He married Mary Jo Musch on Nov. 8, 1980, in Morrison. He served in the Vietnam War in the U.S. Army. He was a graduate of Bismarck Township High School in 1964, Southern Illinois University in 1968 and the University of Illinois Law School in 1975. He worked with the C. & E.I. Railroad in 1966 and later as a teacher at Carbondale High School in 1968. He served as an assistant state's attorney from 1975 to 1977 and practiced law in a private practice from 1977 to 1987, during which time he served as a public defender, and as an associate judge from 1987 to 1990. At the time of his death, he was serving as a circuit judge. He was a member of St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Morrison, the Morrison Lions Club, the Morrison Jaycees, the Illinois Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Illinois Judges Association. He also was active with girls softball, Little League and the United Way and had served on the Credit Union Board of Directors and the Preschool Board of Directors. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Dana and Stephanie Dunagan of Morrison; a son, Patrick Dunagan of Morrison; his mother of Danville; and a brother, A.G. (Dort) Dunagan of Danville. [Clinton Herald December 12, 2003]