Ralph Linus Mudd, Jr., 95, of Jacksonville, Illinois, passed away Tuesday, January 18, 2022. He was born November 3, 1926, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the son of Ralph Linus, Sr. and Ada Marie Pickering Mudd. He married Mary Louise Ahlquist from Wood River on May 13, 1950, and she survives. Ralph is also survived by three children, Kathleen Louise Mudd, Ralph Linus, III (Connie) Mudd, and Richard Kevin (Sherry) Mudd, all of Jacksonville; five grandchildren, Kurt (Nicole) Merriken of Trinity, Florida, Ashlyn Edginton of Springfield, Kevin Mudd, Jonathan (Katie) Mudd, and Joseph Mudd, all of Jacksonville; five great-grandchildren; and a sister, Dorris Marie Phelps of St. Louis, Missouri. He was preceded in death by three brothers, Arthur Lee, Glenn Loren, and Patrick Henry Mudd. Ralph was a 1944 graduate of Dupo High School, near Cahokia, where he became an Eagle Scout. He joined the Navy and served as a Radio Operator during World War II. In 1953, he and his young family moved to Jacksonville where he worked on the W.A. Fay farm in Riggston and also at the Jacksonville Journal Courier, first as a pressman, later as a linotype operator, printer and composing room manager. He retired after 37 years at the newspaper. Ralph loved nature and the outdoors. He enjoyed gardening and farming, and he and his wife, Mary, spent each March and October for the first twenty years of their retirement acting as campground hosts at Montauk State Park on the Current River in Missouri. There will be no services. The Buchanan & Cody Funeral home in Jacksonville is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be left online at buchanancody.com. .