Cory Sanders

July 7, 2016 - May 15, 2022

Cory Lynell Sanders was born July 7, 2016 in Kankakee, IL to Keturah Bynum and Steve Sanders. Cory was an outgoing child. He loved going to grandma’s house, watching his tablet, drinking Almond Milk and going to the park. He attended Mary’s Little Lamb Daycare. He was enrolled in the Proegler Head Start Program in 2021, from which he graduated. He attended Taft Primary School where he learned to interact with other children, and he loved playing in the gym. Cory is survived by his mother, Keturah Bynum; his sisters, Ke’miyah Butler, Cali Bynum and Kaliee Turner; his brothers, Kamyrn and Carter Sanders; his maternal grandparents, Joyce and Rodney Rush and Edrick Williams; his paternal grandparents, Sylvia Erving and Earl Rogers; his maternal great-grandparents, Barbara and Walter Williams; his paternal great-grandmother, Emma Erving; maternal aunts, Kerri Bynum, Alexia Williams and LeAnna (Lavane) Butler; maternal uncles, Clifford Autman and Draquan Stevens; paternal aunts, Andrea Erving, Jasmine Sanders, Jenosha Jackson, Pashiar, Lashawnda, Brittany and Felicity Rogers; paternal uncles, Joshua Jackson and Javon Rogers, and other relatives. He was preceded in death by his father, Steve Sanders; his aunt, Kenya Armstrong; his great-grandparents, Mary and Roosevelt Bynum; his great-great-grandparents, Mary and Hurley Stubblefield and a great-aunt, Mary Shanklin.