Florence R. Christensen
Mar 14, 2009
Florence R. Christensen, age 94, a former resident of LaGrange Park, died Saturday, March 14 at the Fairview Baptist Home in Downers Grove. She was born on December 9, 1914 in Danville, IL to Charles A. and Mildred C. Rutschman. Florence married Edward H. Christensen on September 21, 1940 in Brookfield, IL . She was a long-time member of the...
Roberta M. Redfern
Mar 14, 2009
Roberta M. Redfern, age 86, a resident of Wheaton, died Saturday, March 14, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. She was born September 22, 1922 in Franklin, KY. Roberta is survived by her nieces, Mary Francis Clark of KY, Pat Roberts, also of KY; and her dear friends, Belva and Chuck Hall of Wheaton, IL, Harold and Betty Hall of...
Lillian V. Sauter
Mar 12, 2009
Lillian V. Sauter, age 79, a resident of Windsor Park in Carol Stream, and formerly of Wheaton, died Thursday, March 12, at the Johnson Medical Center at Windsor Park. She was born on April 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Edward and Anna Valentine. Lillian was a graduate of Kensington High School in Philadelphia where she learned to be an...
Agnes M. "Aggie" Parenti
Mar 10, 2009
Agnes M. "Aggie" Parenti, age 82, a longtime resident of Winfield, died Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. She was born on April 20, 1926, in Carbondale, PA to Peter and Anna Best. Aggie moved to Winfield from Glen Ellyn in 1988 when she and her husband Pete fell in love with the 1-1/2 acre lot...
Donna Long
Mar 9, 2009
Donna Long, age 50, a resident of Wheaton, died Monday, March 9, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. She was born October 26, 1958 in Elmhurst, IL. She graduated from Wheaton Central High School, She served in the Navy in the early 1980's. She worked as a legal secretary for many years at a number of legal firms including Schiff,...
Bettie L. Knight
Mar 8, 2009
Bettie L. Knight, age 55, a resident of Lisle, IL and formerly of Wheaton, IL, died Sunday, March 8, 2009 at Kindred Hospital in Northlake, IL. She was born January 5, 1954 in Fairhope, AL. Bettie loved her work at First Care Daycare in Wheaton where she was well-liked. She enjoyed volunteering at her local church, most recently at the...
Shirley A. Carlson
Mar 4, 2009
Shirley A. Carlson, age 79, a longtime resident of Wheaton, died at home on Wednesday, March 4, 2009. She was born on August 21, 1929 in Chicago to Walter and Grace Clouston. Shirley moved to Wheaton when she was 10 years old. She graduated from Wheaton High School. On March 12, 1955 she married Richard Carlson, owner of Carlson's Paint...
Robert Hotchkiss
Mar 4, 2009
Robert Hotchkiss, age 72, of Wheaton, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, March 4, 2009. He was born on January 30, 1937 in Red Bank, New Jersey. Bob was a resident of Wheaton since 1969. He and his wife, Barbara celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 26, 2008. Together with his son, he owned Hometown Furniture in Plainfield...
Gerda M. Dahl
Mar 3, 2009
Gerda M. Dahl, age 95, a resident of Wydemere Retirement Community in Wheaton and formerly a longtime resident of Glen Ellyn, died Tuesday, March 3, 2009 in Wheaton. She was born on October 13, 1913 in Breman, Germany to Fredrick and Martha Albrecht. Mrs. Dahl graduated from Proviso High School in Maywood, where she served as secretary and Director of...
William L. Schmidt
Feb 28, 2009
William Lewis Schmidt, a resident of Wheaton for 40 years, died Saturday, February 28. He was born July 11, 1922 in Detroit, MI. Mr. Schmidt served in the Army Air Force in WWII prior to completing a degree at the University of Michigan. He received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1971. His career took the family to...
Joseph A. Weber, Jr.
Feb 26, 2009
Joseph A. Weber, Jr., a resident of Wheaton for 40 years, died Thursday, February 26, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. He was born October 8, 1927 in Chicago, IL. Mr. Weber served in the US Navy prior to attending and graduating from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, IL in 1952. He then worked for Illinois Bell and AT&T...
James H. "Jim" Patterson
Feb 26, 2009
James H. "Jim" Patterson, age 88, of Carol Stream, IL and formerly of Los Alamos, NM, Lombard, IL, and Ames, IA, passed into the presence of the Lord on Thursday, February 26, 2009. Jim was born in Kansas City, MO on January 22, 1921 and grew up in Omaha, NE, the eldest of three brothers. Jim graduated from the University...
Arthur P. Johnston
Feb 25, 2009
Arthur P. Johnston, Ph.D., age 86, a resident of Windsor Park Manor in Carol Stream, died Wednesday, February 25, at Windsor's Johnson Health Care Center in Carol Stream. He was born August 3, 1922 in St. Paul, MN. Art's career was entirely devoted to evangelism while planting churches and founding an association of churches as a missionary in France, President...
Edward Meyer
Feb 25, 2009
Edward Meyer, age 83, a resident of Downers Grove, IL, died Wednesday, February 25, at Sunrise Assisted Living in Glen Ellyn, IL. He was born August 25, 1925 in Chicago, IL. Mr. Meyer was the owner of E. Meyer Service Auto Glass in Lombard, IL and Naperville, IL. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Downers Grove...
Reagan Joy Glavach
Feb 24, 2009
Visitation for Reagan Joy Glavach, the infant daughter of Daniel and Marceline Glavach, will be held on Friday, February 27, from 10:00 A.M. until the time of a funeral service at 11:00 A.M. at College Church in Wheaton, 332 E. Seminary Ave. Interment will follow at Wheaton Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts in honor of Reagan Joy may...
Virginia T. Coady
Feb 22, 2009
Virginia Coady, age 86, a longtime resident of the DuPage Convalescent Center died Sunday, February 22. She was born in Chicago, IL on September 29, 1922. Virginia was a deeply religious, woman who demonstrated a strong faith in God. She was known by her family as a wonderful mother who took in any pets her children brought home. She will...
Geraldine Cummins
Feb 19, 2009
Longtime Wheaton resident, Geraldine P. Cummins died Thursday, February 19 surrounded by her loving family. Geraldine (Jerry) was born August 7, 1925, the third of three daughters, to George and Lura (Watson) Phillips in Gary, West Virginia. She was raised in Bluefield, West Virginia until age 13 when her family moved to Washington, D.C. There she worked for the Department...
Curt A. Schultz
Feb 18, 2009
Curt A. Schultz, age 50, a resident of Wheaton, IL and Wilton, CT, died suddenly on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. He was born on July 18, 1958 in Chicago. Curt graduated from Luther North High School in Chicago in 1976. He also graduated from Northwestern University and earned his JD from the University of California, Hastings School of Law. On...
Allan Carlson
Feb 16, 2009
Allan "Pat" Carlson, age 79, of Wheaton went home to be with the Lord on Monday, February, 16th. Mr. Carlson died peacefully at home. He was born in South Dakota on March 17th, 1929. He enjoyed his part time job at Walmart for many years after his retirement from Wright Tree Service in 1994. He was an active member of...
Elwood Michaelis
Feb 15, 2009
Elwood W. "Mike" Michaelis, age 87, a resident of Wheaton, died Sunday, February 15 at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. He was born December 20, 1921 in Woodstock, IL. He served in the Navy during World War II aboard the USS Barr which survived a torpedo strike. They towed the ship into Casablanca. During the months that the ship was...
