PEORIA — The man once dubbed "Mr. Everything" by the Journal Star is gone at age 70.Elias "Alvin" O'Neal died at 2:34 a.m. on Sept. 2 at Kris-Leigh Assisted Living in Severna Park, Md.The Peoria native was the centerpiece of Spalding's 1969 boys basketball team, which went 28-4 and finished runnerup in the Illinois High School Association state finals in an era when it was a single-class format."I was just talking to Alvin two years ago when he was in [...]
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