Former ISBA Director of Publications Virgil Everett Tipton Jr. passed away on Nov. 19 at Rosewood Care Center in Edwardsville. Mr. Tipton was a WWII veteran and received his journalism degree from the University of Missouri in 1948. He then moved to Springfield and began working at the State Journal-Register. He became editor of the Illinois Bar Journal in 1960, a position he held until 1982. Read the full obituary in the Springfield State Journal-Register.