Ted Mottaz, right, with WGIL farm director Jim Lee at an ag day event, 2002. (Photo courtesy Carl Sandburg College) Theodore “Ted” G. Mottaz Theodore “Ted” Mottaz spent more than four decades teaching agriculture, leading farm organizations, and shaping the lives of students across Knox County. He died Monday, May 11, 2026, at Farmington Village Nursing Rehabilitation Center. He was 78. “You could count on him to do whatever you needed to do,” s…
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