Zydlo funeral set for Thursday in Palatine
A funeral Mass will be said Thursday for the suburban doctor credited as the father of paramedic service.
Dr. Stanley M. Zydlo Jr., 81, of Inverness, died this past Wednesday.
Visitation will run from 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home, 185 E. Northwest Highway, Palatine. It will continue at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
Mass will begin at 10 a.m. at St. Theresa Catholic Church, 455 N Benton St., Palatine.
Zydlo was a U.S. Air Force veteran who went on to become chief of emergency medical services at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.
In 1972, Zydlo organized a meeting of Northwest suburban fire departments to propose the idea of training and certifying firefighters in emergency medicine. That led to the creation of the first paramedic program in the nation.