PEORIA, Ill. – A former Mayor of Peoria has been memorialized.
Services were held at Bradley University Saturday for former Mayor Richard Carver, who died in Florida back in May, where he had been living.
He was 85 at the time of his passing. Carver’s wife died earlier in the year.
Even though Carver was living in Florida, after a distinguished public career from here to Washington, he still loved the River City.
“Peoria was everything to my dad. It’s where he grew up. It was the city that held his heart. He was so proud of the Civic Center — the arena being named after him. He worked so hard to have that built here,” said Katherine Binau, Carver’s daughter, to 25 News. “The medical school he considered one of his greatest accomplishments.”
Binau tells 25 News Carver also held dear being honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of Bradley University in 1983.
Carver was Peoria’s mayor for two decades, but also served in positions in both the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan administrations.
