Services set for Walnut teen killed Thursday when his pickup hit a tree

WALNUT – Funeral services are set for a 16-year-old rural Walnut boy killed Thursday morning when he lost control of his pickup and struck a tree north of Sheffield.

Bailey Douglas Broers was alone in the truck when it crashed around 9:45 a.m. at 645 E St., about a mile south of 2000 N. Ave. He was pronounced dead at OSF St. Clare Hospital in Princeton.

Bailey, son of David Broers of Walnut and Amanda Broers of New Bedford, was a junior at Bureau Valley High School and a member of the FFA, the Illinois Milking Shorthorn Association and the Illinois Ayrshire Association. He helped out on the family farm and at MJ Seed Co.

Survivors also include his sisters Brianna Broers, Leigha Johnson and Danielle Morris and his brother Logan Johnson, all of all of New Bedford, grandfather Doug Broers of Tampico, maternal grandmother Kathy Chasteen of Sheffield, and maternal great-grandfather Orville Schaeffer of Amboy.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday and the funeral at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Garland Funeral Home in Walnut.

The Bureau Valley school district is making crisis counseling available to staff and students in the wake of Bailey’s death.






Kathleen Schultz

Kathleen A. Schultz

Kathleen Schultz is a Sterling native with 40 years of reporting and editing experience in Arizona, California, Montana and Illinois.