Eleanor H. Gager
Jul 21, 2017
Eleanor Gager 1937 - 2017 Dearest Eleanor, You will be missed by your family and friends who all loved you, and your sweet love and kindness. Services to be held at Gary United Methodist Church, on Monday, July 24, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. followed by a light reception at the church. Friends may visit with the family from 9:30 until...
Douglas Yee Lam
Jul 21, 2017
Douglas Yee Lam, age 60, a resident of Bolingbrook, went to be with the Lord suddenly on Friday, July 21, 2017. He was born on March 24, 1957 in Chicago to Ton and Kam Hang Woo Lam.
Doug grew up in Chinatown and graduated from Lane Technical High School. He then earned a degree in...
Vladimir Alekseyevich Vlasov
Jul 17, 2017
Vladimir A. Vlasov, 72, a resident of Wheaton, passed away Monday night, July 17, 2017 at the Seasons Hospice Inpatient Center in Naperville. He was born in Kursk, Russia on December 23, 1944 to Aleksey and Faina Vlasov. He later moved to Latvia, where he worked as a docker in the shipping industry. During his time working on the Baltic...
Sally Elsie Lorraine Morgan
Jul 13, 2017
Sally Elsie Lorraine Morgan, beloved wife of the late Edward F. Morgan Jr., cherished mother of seven children and the only child of the late Fred and Anna Salay, died and went to be with Christ on July 13, 2017 at the age of 91. She passed comfortably in the presence of family. Originally named Elsie Salay, her closest...
Raymond W Fleischman
Jul 11, 2017
Raymond W. Fleischman, age 90, a longtime resident of Glen Ellyn, IL, died at home on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, surrounded by his family. He was born November 23, 1926 in Chicago to John and Shirley Fleischman.
Ray grew up in Hinsdale and graduated from Hinsdale Township High School. Several years later while working at the high...
Mary C. Ventimiglia
Jul 8, 2017
Mary C. Ventimiglia, age 70 a resident of Palos Hills and formerly of Port St. Lucie, Florida, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, July 8 in South Bend, Indiana. Mary was born on October 21, 1946 to Charles and Connie Palici in Chicago. She grew up in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. After starting a family at...
Jane Cerny
Jul 7, 2017
Jane Cerny, age 91, a resident of Windsor Park, in Carol Stream, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, July 7, 2017. She was born November 7, 1925, in St. Louis, to Harry and Julia Hixson. She was raised in St. Louis, and graduated from Rosati-Kain High School. She met her husband, George Cerny, on a blind...
Charles Russell
Jul 7, 2017
Charles Russell, age 73, a resident of Hanover Park, for over 40 years, died Friday, July 7, 2017. He was born April 27, 1944 in Marion, Illinois to Bertram and Bessie Russell. He grew up in Cartersville, Illinois. Charlie was a volunteer fireman for Hanover Park for many years. He worked for Brinks, G & G and then for Dominick's...
Audrey M. Walker
Jul 6, 2017
Audrey M. Walker, age 84, a longtime resident of Wheaton and Glen Ellyn, Illinois, passed away on Thursday, July 6, 2017. She was born April 14, 1933 in Chicago to Theodore and Mary Lawson. She grew up in Cicero, Illinois and attended Mary Queen of Heaven School. After high school she worked at the Hawthorne Works for Western Electric where...
George Michael Diguido
Jul 1, 2017
George M. DiGuido, age 94, a resident of Wheaton, IL, died Saturday, July 1, 2017, at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. He was born June 17, 1923 in Brooklyn, NY. George's parents emigrated to the U.S. as young children from the Naples, Italy area and came through Ellis Island with their respective parents. As was often the custom, their...
Francis E. Elwell Iii
Jun 21, 2017
29 March 1916-21 June 2017
On the evening of March 29, 1916, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bertha Beyer Elwell presented a son to her husband, Francis Evan Elwell Jr. and they named him Francis Evan Elwell III.
After residing in Elkins Park PA for two years, the family moved to Abington, PA. Francis (Frank) grew up in Abington...
Theresa Decanio
Jun 19, 2017
Theresa Barbara Kubica DeCanio
September 23, 1928 – June 19, 2017
Theresa Barbara DeCanio nee Kubica, 88, of Chicago, Illinois, died peacefully - surrounded by loving family members - on Monday, June 19, 2017 at the DuPage County Convalescent Center from complications arising from Alzheimer's.
Theresa,...
Barbara Jean Curry
Jun 17, 2017
Barbara Curry, age 67, a resident of Glen Ellyn, IL, passed away on June 17th, 2017 due to a sudden and unexpected aortic dissection which incurred during work that same day. She died while being prepped for surgery at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois. She was born on May 9th, 1950. Barbara was a vibrant member of the community and...
Douglas E. Olsen
Jun 16, 2017
A bright light went out on Friday, June 16, 2017,when Douglas E. Olsen, loving husband, father, friend, and cherished grandpa died after a decades-long battle with cancer. He was the third son born to_Harry and Edna (nee Winter) Olsen on Octoberbe10, 1948 in Oak Park, Il. He attended North Central College in Naperville where he met and married his...
John Robert Street
Jun 12, 2017
John Robert Street, 82, of Boulder, Colorado, died on June 12, 2017, at Boulder Community Health Hospital following a long illness. Robert Street was born to Reverend Harold B. Street and Mabel Ellis Street in Soddu, Wolamo, Ethiopia, on June 21, 1934, the youngest of four children. His parents were missionaries with the Sudan Interior Mission and fled the invasion...
Elsie E. Krill
Jun 9, 2017
Elsie E. Krill, age 94, a resident of Wheaton, IL, died Friday, June 9, 2017, at Westbridge Assisted Living. She was born July 9, 1922 in Roselle Park, NJ. She was a member of Lee Street Memorial Baptist Church for 50 years and also served in the church's soup kitchen ministry. During her 20 years as a volunteer at St....
Otha Arnold
Jun 9, 2017
Otha Louise Arnold was born Oct. 10, 1916 in Normandy, Tennessee, to Abby Newton and Hattie Mae Jones. She was reared on a farm with six younger siblings all of which are deceased except one brother, Lester LN Jones.
In 1934 Otha married her childhood sweetheart, William Maxwell Arnold, and were blessed with an only child, Barbara...
Richard B. Botts
Jun 8, 2017
Richard B. Botts, age 92, a resident of Carol Stream, IL, died June 8, 2017, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. Richard Barton Botts was born on January 16, 1925 in Harrisburg PA. He was the son of Barton, an accomplished musician and Esther Ring, a state government employee. His best childhood memory was exploring the Susquehanna River by...
Howard L. Sandlund
Jun 7, 2017
Howard L Sandlund, 88 years of age and a resident of Carol Stream, IL, died early on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 in Winfield, IL. Howard was born on October 5, 1928 of Swedish heritage. He was raised in Chicago with his two sisters, Doris (Charles) Inskeep and Nancy (Sven) Cederberg. Mr. Sandlund worked for high school District 214 as band...
James C. Koeppen
Jun 6, 2017
James C. Koeppen, age 79, a resident of Burbank, went home to be with his Lord, surrounded by his loving family, on Tuesday, June 6. He was born July 26, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois.
He grew up in Chicago, and after high school began work as an airport baggage handler. He married his wife Nora on December...
