Brandy Gallagher
Feb 13, 2017
Brandy Gallagher, age 38, a resident of Glendale Heights, IL, passed away unexpectedly in her home on Monday, February 13, 2017. She was born in Metarie, LA, on November 10, 1978 to Burke and Molly Gallagher. She graduated from Glenbard East High School and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She worked at A Place For Mom, where she used...
Dorothy J. "Dori" Coder
Feb 9, 2017
Dorothy J. "Dori" Coder, age 87, a resident of Windsor Park in Carol Stream, Illinois, died Thursday, February 9, 2017, at Windsor's Johnson Health Care Center. She was born February 5, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, to Leslie Winkler and Ada (Sanders) Thornton. "Dolly", as she was called in her younger years, was married to Eugene E. "Gene" Coder for 54...
Michael H. Dyk
Feb 9, 2017
Michael H. Dyk, age 93, a resident of Glen Ellyn, IL, died Thursday, February 9, 2017, at Brookdale in Glen Ellyn, IL. He was born March 30, 1923 in Chicago, IL. Michael lived in Washington Heights (Chicago) and then later in Roseland, Harvey, IL and Orland Park, IL. He served in the Navy during World War II in the Atlantic...
Luis Alberto Lugo
Feb 9, 2017
Luis Alberto Lugo, age 62, a resident of Glendale Heights for 20 years, died Thursday, February 9, 2017, at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He was born August 31, 1954 in Yauco, Puerto Rico to Damian and Cornelia Lugo. Luis grew up in Yauco and came to the Chicago area in his 20's. He married Idalia...
Jody Green
Feb 8, 2017
Jody Green, age 74, of Wheaton, IL, died February 8, 2017, after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Jody was warm-hearted, funny, loving, generous and outgoing. She adored her family, including her husband John, 2 children and 7 grandchildren, and relished her relationships with her many, many friends.
Born November 13, 1942 in Iowa City, Jody was the...
Curtis Taylor
Feb 7, 2017
Curtis Taylor, age 92, of Glen Ellyn, Illinois passed in his sleep on Tuesday, February 7, 2017. Curt was born on November 26, 1924, at his home in Nancy, Kentucky, the third child of four for Esmer and Lela Taylor.
During his childhood, Curt's parents moved the family to Mt Zion, Illinois where Curt grew up and...
Brian Jeremy Geddes
Feb 4, 2017
Brian Geddes, age 35, passed away unexpectedly from complications of a blood clot on February 4, 2017 while surrounded by his family. He was born in Wheaton, IL on May 21, 1981 to Marsha and David Geddes. Brian lived most of his life in Wheaton and graduated from Glenbard West High School in 1999. He then went on to...
Martin Jepson
Jan 31, 2017
Martin Jepson, age 88, of Wheaton, Illinois died on Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Martin was born on July 23, 1928 in Chicago Illinois, the son of Carl and Edna Jepson of Elgin, Illinois.
Martin developed a strong work ethic as the oldest of eight children, finding creative ways to contribute to his family's well-being. He graduated from...
Joanne M Warren
Jan 31, 2017
Joanne Mary Warren, 72, of Wheaton died on January 31, 2017 after a brief battle with cancer. She was born on June 19, 1944, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the only child of John and Lorraine (Dettmann) Warren. Her early years were spent in the Wautoma, Wisconsin, area living with her grandfather after the deaths of her parents. She graduated from Wautoma...
Allen K. Billingsley
Jan 31, 2017
Allen K Billingsley of Wheaton Illinois, passed away at the age of 84 on January 31 st at 2:15 pm.  He was born on July 24 th , 1932 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Joe K and Georgiana (Brown) Billingsley.
He attended DePauw University in Greencastle Indiana and graduated in 1954. DePauw was where he first met his...
William F. Jenkins
Jan 29, 2017
William F. Jenkins, age 83, a resident of Glen Ellyn, IL, died Sunday, January 29, 2017, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, IL. He was born October 30, 1933 in Macon, GA. Bill was a tax accountant and worked for Martin Oil and then later for Chicago Northwestern Railroad for many years. He was an alumnus of Mercer University...
Dora F. Karwoski
Jan 28, 2017
Dora F. Karwoski, 95, of Boone passed away on January 28, 2017 at the Eastern Star Masonic Home. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at the First Evangelical Free Church in Boone. Burial will be in the Assumption Cemetery in Wheaton, Illinois. Dora Frances Karwoski was born in Wheaton, Illinois on November 18, 1921, the...
Jack Earl Ades
Jan 27, 2017
Jack Earl Ades, most recently of Elburn, died January 27, 2017 at Symphony of Orchard Valley in Aurora. He was born on May 8, 1935 in Chicago to Jack Elvan Ades and Jeanne Thone. Upon discharge from the Navy, Jack married Coriene Winkler on October 27, 1962, as he told it, after seeing "that skirt float by" while roller-skating several...
John Sakellarides
Jan 24, 2017
John Sakellarides, age 84, passed away from Parkinson's disease in the comfort of his home in Bloomingdale, Illinois. John was born and raised in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece on October 28, 1932. John was the son and only child of Theofrastos Sakellaridis, an accomplished Greek operetta writer, and Kyriaki Sakellaridis (nee Litsakos), an actress. After graduating from high school, John...
Vaneta "Nita" Martindale
Jan 24, 2017
Vaneta "Nita" Inez Martindale died in her home in Wheaton, IL, attended by her husband, Wayne, and daughter, Heather, on January 24, 2017, after a nearly two-year journey with cancer. She resolved from the beginning, in the words of John Piper, "Don't Waste Your Cancer." In the midst of many physical challenges, she was joyful, grateful and purposeful, encouraging...
Alma J Sargis
Jan 24, 2017
Alma Joseph Sargis, 88, of Chicago, passed away peacefully Tue Jan 24, 2017. She was born in Chicago Mar 10, 1928, to Jerry Warda Joseph, a high-end tailor in Lakeview, and Alma David Joseph, a seamstress, both Assyrian immigrants from the Lake Urmia region of Persia. As a child, Alma moved to Fennville, Mich., where her father began a fruit...
Dr. Raymond H. Saxe
Jan 23, 2017
Dr. Raymond H. Saxe, BA, Th.M., MA, Th.D., D.Miss December 6, 1922 – January 23, 2017 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15 Dr. Raymond Hyman Saxe was born December 6, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, to missionary parents, Israel and Elizabeth Saxe, and...
Betty Lou Spurgeon
Jan 21, 2017
Betty Lou Spurgeon of Glen Ellyn, Illinois formerly of St. James, Mo. passed away suddenly on January 21, 2017 at Good Samaratian Hospital in Illinois. Betty Spurgeon was 84 years, 2 months and 20 days of age. Betty Lou Spurgeon was born on November 1, 1932 to her parents: Alva and Martha Wallace VanDorn. She was united in marriage to...
Alice Sutor
Jan 19, 2017
Alice K. Sutor, age 46, died unexpectedly in her sleep in her home in West Chicago on Wednesday, January 19, 2017, of complications of coronary artery disease. She was born in Chicago Heights on April 8, 1970, and was adopted by Dr. Benjamin and Sylvia Kietzman as their youngest daughter on July 9th, 1970. Shortly thereafter the family of six...
Faith P. Bathje
Jan 18, 2017
Faith P. Bathje, age 90, a resident of Wheaton, IL, died Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. She was born October 12, 1926 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada to Rudolph and Helene Brenner. Faith worked as a school teacher at Grace Lutheran School in Chicago where she met Arnold Bathje, a school principal. They were...
