Times Record, The (Aledo, IL)
April 13, 2022
PEORIA — Though he lived a simple life, Jon Daker accidentally became world famous.A lifelong Peorian who died Feb. 20 at the age of 82, Daker rose to fame when a video of a recital at the First United Methodist Church in Peoria went viral right as streaming video took off with YouTube. The video was shot in the early 1990s, and Heather Schopp, a West Peoria native, remembers the first time she saw it — long before it found its way online.
"One of my sisters had recorded it the day
