Amboy man, 64, to be confirmed as crash victim

DAVIS JUNCTION – The Ogle County Sheriff’s Department is expected to soon confirm a 64-year-old Amboy man as one of two victims in a two-vehicle crash Friday night.

Andy Conderman, a father of four, a grandfather of 10, and a transportation consultant, was pronounced dead in a soybean field in the southwest corner of the intersection of U.S. Route 251 and Big Mound Road.

Emily Fleming, a 17-year-old Stillman Valley cheerleader, who was en route to a football game along with two other cheerleaders, also was killed in the accident. She was pronounced dead at Rockford Memorial Hospital, where the other two juveniles’ conditions were unavailable Monday.

While the sheriff’s department has not yet confirmed Conderman’s identity, the family confirmed he was killed in the accident. The family is making funeral arrangements, and a vigil was held Sunday night at the crash site.

Ogle County deputies responded at 5 p.m. and found Conderman’s pickup truck fully engulfed in flames in the field, and the second vehicle in the west side of the field.

Witnesses told the sheriff’s department that the passenger car was westbound on Big Mound Road when it failed to stop at a stop sign. Conderman’s pickup was southbound on Route 251.

Conderman was a lifelong Amboy resident and is survived by four sons, Craig, Chris, Corey, and Chad, and 10 grandchildren.

He graduated from the Morrison Institute of Technology and worked for the Illinois Department of Transportation for 39 years. After retirement, he acted as an engineering consultant for IDOT contractors.

Conderman also served in the Army Reserves and was an American Legion member. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and rock collecting.

His wife of 44 years, Victoria Conderman, told the Freeport Journal Standard that the family has received an outpouring of support.

“I cannot believe the amount of people that have come to our house already,” Victoria told the paper. “I guess you just don’t realize just how many people would actually come.”