SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – The Illinois State Fair has lost its “fry guy.”

Culler’s French Fries has posted on Facebook that Jim Cullers (pictured, right) passed away Monday, Nov. 9.

Terry Farmer (pictured, left), perhaps central Illinois’ best-known photographer, passed away Saturday, Nov. 7,

“Certainly, he was very well-known through his business, Terry Farmer Photography, even though he had closed his studio out there on Old Jacksonville Road a while back,” Springfield Business Journal executive editor Michelle Ownbey said on the WTAX Morning Newswatch, “and was kind of semi-retired. He used to do a lot of free-lance photography for us for many of our Business Journal programs and things like that, and I know he won the lifetime achievement award through the (Greater) Springfield Chamber of Commerce.”

Ownbey notes Farmer was also a philanthropist, with contributions to both Sacred Heart-Griffin High School and the Knights of Columbus. There will be a celebration of life for Farmer Saturday, Sept. 14 from 3-6 p.m. at the K of C hall on Meadowbrook Road.