09/21/1953 - 05/21/2025

Lorell J. Wyatt, 71, of Champaign, died on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at Accolade Healthcare of Savoy.

Lorell was born on September 21, 1953 in Fairbury, Illinois to William W. Wyatt and Corrine Creasy.

Lorell grew up in Berwyn, Illinois and graduated from Berwyn High School. She attended Columbia College in Chicago focusing on acting. She was a co-founder of City Lit Theater Company in Chicago in 1980. She won the coveted Joseph Jefferson Citation for principal actress and the Good Times are Killing Me in 1990.

She also attended DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago and received a BS in CIS where she met her future husband Andrew Robert “Bob” Voorhees. She joined Bob in Champaign and they were married in 1993.

Lorell is survived by the love of her life and husband Bob for 31 years; one son: Abraham of Lincoln Park, Michigan; two nephews Carl and Mark; and one niece: Claudia.

She was preceded in death by one brother: James; two sisters: Patricia and Judy, and one niece: Lynn.