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

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

“After a short hospital visit in his hometown of Springfield he joined his favorite “Potato Man”, Uncle Bill on 11/9 to whip up some heavenly fries,” said Cullers’ French Fries Facebook page.

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.