Carmi Times Tue Jan 26, 2010 Carmi, Ill. - Rhonda Usery, 50, Carmi, passed away at 5:45 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro. She was born April 10, 1959 in Peoria, the daughter of Russell and Nelma Lea (Farris) Allen. She married Ken Usery on Oct. 17, 1980. Rhonda was a 1977 graduate of McLeansboro High School. She worked as a shift supervisor at CVS in Carmi. Rhonda was a dedicated wife, mother and grandmother. Surviving are her husband of 29 years, Ken Usery of Carmi; a daughter, Ashley Usery of Carmi; a granddaughter, Averie Catlin of Carmi; her mother, Nelma Lea Allen of McLeansboro; two brothers and a sister-in-law, Russell and Shelly Allen of Dahlgren, and Kerry Allen and his girlfriend, Nancy Prince, of McLeansboro; and two sisters and brothers-in-law, Sherry and Rick Henderson of McLeansboro, and Denise and Dan Little of Crab Orchard. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Campbell Funeral Home in Carmi, Wayne Williams officiating. Burial will be at Melrose Cemetery in Carmi. Friends may call from 5 until 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral h