Obituaries
Obituaries
Obituaries for Wheaton and Carol Stream, IL. and the surrounding areas.
Carol Anne Childs
Jun 16, 2020
Carol Anne Passis was born on July 4th, 1933, in Springfield, MA. After growing up in difficult family circumstances, she graduated from Commercial High School in Springfield, MA. She completed her college work at Barrington College in Rhode Island. She began working in the engineering department of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in Hartford Connecticut, then on to the Foxborough...
Gordon Tyler Maxson
Jun 16, 2020
Gordon Tyler Maxson, age 86, a resident of Wheaton, died June 16, 2020, at Westbridge Assisted Living at Wyndemere in Wheaton. He was born March 20, 1934 to Raymond & Sylvia Maxson.
Gordon was born and raised in Elmhurst, IL and graduated from Elmhurst College in 1959. Gordon served in the Army for about 2 years, where...
Eric Gill
Jun 15, 2020
Eric Gill was born on May 15, 1929 to Antoinette and Ivan Gill in Belize City, Belize (formerly British Honduras). Eric was the fourth of nine children born to the union of Ivan and Antoinette. He attended Wesley Primary School and took evening classes at St. John's Primary School. He was a popular figure not only in Belize...
Joanne S. Roberts
Jun 15, 2020
Joanne S. Roberts, nee Griffith, age 85, a longtime resident of Wheaton, IL, died June 15, 2020. She was born October 28, 1934 in upstate New York, but grew up in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
After high school Jo made her way to Wheaton College, where she graduated in 1956. At Wheaton, she met lifelong Wheaton resident Leland Roberts...
Henry Bert Kawell
Jun 15, 2020
Henry Bert Kawell, 82, a resident of Wheaton since 1980, died on Monday, June 15 th at his home. He succumbed to lung cancer after a long battle. He was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
As a young man, Henry moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend college, and was also employed as a Life Guard at...
Ronald Glenn Scherer
Jun 13, 2020
Ronald Glenn Scherer, of Chicago, Mount Prospect, IL, Marco Island, FL and most recently Wheaton, IL died peacefully on June 13, 2020. Born on the southeast side of Chicago in 1930, he graduated from Northwestern University and was soon drafted into the Marines where he proudly served during the Korean War. He had a zest for life and loved...
Sandra Brown-Charity
Jun 11, 2020
Sandra Brown-Charity, age 71, a resident of Wheaton, IL, died June 11, 2020, at Seasons Hospice in Naperville, Illinois. She was born July 23, 1948 in Chicago.
Sandy will be missed by many people. She missed her beloved son Ricky and beloved dog Murray. She loved her husband, sons, grandkids, daughter-in-laws and her pets. She was very...
Patrick Thomas Nelms
Jun 11, 2020
Patrick Nelms, age 68, a resident of Wheaton, passed away suddenly June 11, 2020, at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. He was born January 5, 1952 in Chicago to Lyle Nelms & Eleanor Ferguson.
Pat grew up in Addison, Illinois where he developed many life-long relationships. He attended Addison Trail High School. In 1986 he married...
Norman F. Jay, Sr.
Jun 10, 2020
Norman F. Jay, Sr., 86, was born on November 25th, 1933 at Illinois Central Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to Richard Hill Jay and Frances Marian Lasher Jay. He graduated from Hinsdale Township High School in 1951 and DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 1955, with a BA in Economics. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. Norm...
Pete O. Ingle
Jun 9, 2020
Pete Osbourn Ingle passed Tuesday June 9th, 2020 at his home in Wheaton, Illinois.
He is survived by his wife Cheryl and daughter Alexandra (Jared) Durdon.
He was born on March 30th, 1958 in Des Moines, Iowa to Max and Carolyn Ingle. He worked as a MRI technologist for over 35 years before retiring. Pete...
Mary Grguras
Jun 7, 2020
Mary Grguras passed away on June 7, 2020 at Beacon Hill in Lombard, Illinois. She was 91 years old.
Mary was born in Spahici, Croatia to Ivan and Marija Spahic, the 8 th of 10 children. She married Nikola Grguras in April 1950, and her daughter Ana was born in December. She moved with her family to...
Paul P. Didzerekis
Jun 5, 2020
Paul P. Didzerekis, age 81, a longtime resident of Wheaton, passed away on Friday, June 5, 2020. He was born March 17, 1939 in Chicago to Louis and Estelle Didzerekis.
Paul earned a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Loyola University of Chicago in 1963. He went on to earn a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from Loyola...
Huy Dat Tran
Jun 3, 2020
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Gilbert C. Mitchell
Jun 1, 2020
Gilbert C. Mitchell, age 92, a resident of Park Place in Elmhurst, formerly of Hinsdale, passed away June 1, 2020, at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. He was born December 16, 1927 in Chicago to William G. & Ruth Mitchell.
Gilbert graduated in 1951 from Illinois Wesleyan University where he met Shirley Schroeder. The two were married in 1953...
Allene Berger Harding
May 30, 2020
Allene Ruth (Berger) Harding, longtime resident of Wheaton, passed away peacefully at home on May 30, 2020. Allene was born on August 10, 1939 in Cape Girardeau, MO to Alvin and Emma (Romanot) Berger. She grew up in several towns in Missouri, and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in journalism in 1961. She married...
Sheena R. Burks
May 29, 2020
Sheena R. Burks, age 37, a resident of Wheaton, IL, left this earth too early on Friday May 29, 2020. She was born December 18, 1982 in Rockford, IL.
Sheena grew up in Rockford and attended Auburn High School. She was a free spirit and loved music, gardens and animals. She was one of the only people...
Anna Dejong
May 27, 2020
You are invited to join the family for an Open House as we remember Anna on July 19 (Anna's golden birthday), at Grace Church of DuPage , 27W344 Galusha Ave., Warrenville, IL, from 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. For more details on the event and to RSVP please click HERE .
Anna DeJong, age 18,...
Edwin Eric (Ned) Nyman
May 27, 2020
Born in Parsons, KS, Ned spent his first 15 years in Osawatomie, KS. At 16, after the death of his father, Ned and his mother moved to San Diego to live with his sister and her family, where he completed his senior year at Point Loma High School. He then attended a trade school at the encouragement of his...
Margaret K. Brooks
May 25, 2020
Margaret K. Brooks, age 87, a resident of Carol Stream, IL, died May 25, 2020, at Johnson Health Care Center in Carol Stream, Illinois. She was born July 31, 1932 in Evanston, IL to Paul and Lina Klein.
Margaret attended New Trier East High School in Winneka, IL and Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School. She then moved to...
Raymond Brand
May 23, 2020
Dr. Raymond H. Brand, 1928-2020
Dr. Raymond Howard Brand, age 91, a resident of Windsor Park in Carol Stream, Illinois, died May 23, 2020 at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. Ray was the beloved husband for 62 years to Shirley (née Winch,deceased), and was predeceased by infant son David Keith and brother,...
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