Gary Edson Parker
Jul 29, 2009
Gary Edson Parker, age 63, a resident of Wheaton, peacefully passed away after a courageous battle with cancer, on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva, IL. He was born April 11th, 1946 in Chillicothe, OH. Gary was a graduate of New Mexico State University where he was a member of Sigma Chi. He was a Senior...
Debra J Palm
Jul 28, 2009
Debra J. Palm, age 52, a resident of Wheaton, died suddenly Tuesday, July 28. She was born on December 29, 1956 in Melrose Park. She grew up in Medinah and graduated from Lake Park High School. Debra received her Bachelors degree from Northern Illinois University. In 1988, she married Gary Palm and they moved to Wheaton. For many years she...
Derek Julian Hernandez
Jul 24, 2009
Derek Julian Hernandez, aged 15, of Wheaton, IL peacefully passed away surrounded by loved ones Thursday, July 24 after a brief and brave battle with cancer. Derek, an amateur chef, master gamer, film and music buff, defender on Wheaton North High School lacrosse and soccer teams and honor role student is the beloved son of Juan Hernandez and Gina Juliano...
Nina I. Ohst
Jul 24, 2009
Nina I. Ohst, nee Phillips, age 70, a longtime resident of Wheaton, died Friday, July 24, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. She was born on August 23, 1938 in Chicago to Vic and Isabel Phillips. She grew up on the south-side of Chicago. Her family later moved to Wheaton where she graduated from Wheaton High School in 1956. Nina...
Marilyn Rowe Packer
Jul 22, 2009
Marilyn Rowe Packer, 85, died July 22 in Batavia. She was born December 24, 1923 in Oak Park to Arthur and Gertrude Rowe. She grew up in Oak Park and Elmhurst and she attended Elmhurst College. She married and moved to Louisville, KY. She returned to live in Wheaton in 1962. She was an office manager for Doctors Michaels,West, and...
Joan Rita Farrow
Jul 19, 2009
Joan Rita Farrow, age 88, a former resident of Itasca, died Sunday, July 19 at the Wynscape Nursing Center. She was born on May 18, 1921 in Mill Creek, Illinois to Frank and Juanita Helton. She grew up in Mill Creek, IL and moved to East St. Louis where she married Robert A. Farrow on December 20, 1941. She was...
Sasha Rios
Jul 18, 2009
Sasha Richelle Rios, daughter of AM1160 Host, Sandy Rios, passed from this life on July 18th, 2009 at 5:30 AM. Born July 17, 1974, Sasha is survived by her mother, Sandy, her father, Willie Rios of Boulder, Colorado, and her brother, Jeremy Rios, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Beautiful, but broken, Sasha lived at home for the first twenty years spending...
Marlene Jule Luhrsen
Jul 16, 2009
Marlene Jule Luhrsen, 76, died July 16, 2009 in Wheaton, IL after seven months of fighting Mesothelioma. She was the beloved wife for 55 years of Paul H. Luhrsen, and loving mother of Dane Luhrsen, Heidi Gagnon, Tyra Luhrsen, and Kris Luhrsen, all of Wheaton IL. Marlene was born on January 11, 1933 in Cicero, Illinois to parents John and...
Virginia L. Aamodt
Jul 15, 2009
Virginia L. Aamodt, age 87, a longtime resident of Wheaton, died Wednesday, July 15 at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. She was born on December 4, 1921 to Delmer and Hazel O. Aamodt. Virginia was a veteran of the US Navy, serving during WWII. She worked for 43 years at Pioneer Clubs as an Area Representative. She was an active...
Winifred L. Foster
Jul 15, 2009
Winifred L. Foster, age 80, a resident of Winfield for 43 years, died on Wednesday, July 15 at the Clare Oaks Healthcare Center in Bartlett. She was born on August 10, 1928 in Chicago to Frederik and Lillian Drinhaus. After graduating from the Chicago Public schools at age 16, she earned a BS in Education from IL State University at...
Astrid W. Petersen
Jul 12, 2009
Astrid W. Petersen, age 94, a resident of Windsor Park Manor in Carol Stream since 2005 and formerly of Glen Ellyn for 55 years, died on Sunday, July 12. She was born on August 10, 1914, at home in Chicago to Carl and Ida Worgren. As a young woman, she faithfully served the Lord as an active member of her...
Nicholas P. Anderson
Jul 10, 2009
Nicholas P. Anderson, age 20, a lifelong resident of Winfield, died Friday, July 10 in Boynton Beach, Florida. He was born on November 18, 1988 to Steven and Suzanne Anderson. Nick attended the District 200 Schools and graduated from Wheaton North in 2007. At Wheaton North he played four years of football and loved all kinds of competition. He was...
Anthony J. Stecca
Jul 10, 2009
Anthony Joseph Stecca Upon graduation from Ohio University with a BS in Electrical Engineering, he worked at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. on secret projects related to RADAR countermeasures and telemetering systems. In June 1956, he moved his family to Wheaton in order to send his children to the Wheaton Christian schools. He and his family joined the...
Janet E. Hill-Hardy
Jul 9, 2009
Janet E. Hill-Hardy, 96, beloved wife of the late Lawrence Hill Sr. and the late Samuel Hardy, loving mother of Lawrence (Ann) Hill Jr., and the late Richard Hill, mother-in-law of Sandra Hill, dear grandmother of 8, proud great-grandmother of 11, preceded in death by 3 sisters and 1 brother. Resident of Northlake for 60 years and longtime member of...
Dorothy Ann Pancoast
Jul 9, 2009
Dorothy A. Pancoast, 85, of Wheaton, beloved wife of the late Edward E. Pancoast, loving daughter of the late James J. Bercher and the late Martha nee Rogowicz Bercher, dearest mother of Robert (Pamela) of Chicago and Stevensville, MI, John (Diane) of Wheaton, Mary (Sherman) Dunnam of Wheaton, and Mark (Leslie) of Livermore, CA, beloved grandmother of 10, Benjamin (Melissa),...
Ralph V. Peebler
Jul 8, 2009
Ralph V. Peebler, age 85, of Wheaton, IL, passed away on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at home. He was born June 16, 1924 in Libertyville, Iowa. Ralph received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. He wrote for Capper's Farmer Magazine in Topeka, Kansas. Then he went on into agricultural advertising at Brown Ad Agency...
Thelma S. Mcpherson
Jul 3, 2009
Thelma Stafford McPherson, age 85, a resident of Wheaton, Illinois died Friday, July 3 at home. She was born December 30, 1923 on a farm at Gravity, Iowa to Harry and Bertha Stafford. She leaves her husband Alexander McPherson, two sons, Harry (Barbara) McPherson of Wheaton, IL and Brian (Kathy) McPherson of Burlington Jct., MO, two grandchildren Timothy (Andrea) McPherson...
Peter J. Conway
Jun 27, 2009
Peter J. Conway, age 95, a resident of the Meadows in Glen Ellyn, IL, and formerly of Sandpoint, ID, Jacksonville, OR, and Yorba Linda, CA, died Saturday, June 27, 2009 at home. He was born April 7, 1914 to Scottish immigrants who nine years earlier migrated to the gold mining town of Cripple Creek, CO. He enjoyed his involvement in...
Raquel Lara Ramirez
Jun 24, 2009
Raquel Lara Ramirez, age 40, a resident of Carol Stream, IL, died Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, IL. She was born June 9, 1969 in Los Angeles, CA. She is survived by her mother, Mary Kruse of Wheaton, IL; her two sons, Anthony Christopher, and Ryan Daniel; her fiance, Albert Vazquez; her sisters, Gina Lara,...
Daphanee Helen Hileman
Jun 24, 2009
Daphanee H. Hileman, age 89, a resident of Belmont Village in Carol Stream, IL, and formerly of LeHigh Acres, FL, died Wednesday, June 24, at home. She was born March 11, 1920 in Concord, NC. Daphanee was an active member and officer of the Elks Lodge 2602 in LeHigh Acres, FL where she served as president of the Lady Elks...
