Obituaries
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Wheeling pastor, Family Fest leader, dies at 82Nov 13, 2012 12:50 pm - A former Wheeling pastor, who guided the growth of Family Fest from a parish picnic into one of the Northwest suburbs’ largest summer festivals, has died. The Rev. James...
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Halas family loses an elder stateswomanNov 07, 2012 12:45 pm - One of the last members of the Halas family to be among the inner circle with George “Papa Bear” Halas, has died. Mildred Halas passed away Nov. 1. The longtime Mount Pr...
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Streamwood deputy fire chief dies TuesdayNov 06, 2012 3:38 pm - Family and fellow firefighters are mourning the death Tuesday of 45-year-old Streamwood Deputy Fire Chief Mark Hudson, a 20-year veteran of the village’s fire department...
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Des Plaines woman who owned hero dog succumbs to illnessNov 05, 2012 10:52 am - Des Plaines resident Patricia “Patti” Kennedy, whose loyal companion, a yellow Labrador retriever named Zurich, won the American Humane Association’s Hero Dog Award for ...
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Advocate for Northwest suburban children dies at 89Oct 28, 2012 1:46 pm - A noted advocate for Northwest suburban youth and the namesake of the Ray Walker Head Start Center, which serves 118 low-income children in Schaumburg Township, has died...
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Former Sen. George McGovern dies at 90Oct 21, 2012 10:45 am - Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so. It was a campaign in ...
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McGovern an unwavering, often unrequited, liberalOct 21, 2012 8:41 am - Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — George McGovern was an unwavering, often unrequited advocate for liberal Democratic causes. He pursued those goals in plainspoken, u...
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Tracy Hill, pioneer in suburban property management, dies at 68Oct 17, 2012 10:15 am - The property management industry lost one of its pioneers in Tracy Hill, who died Sunday at age 68. Hill grew up working in his father's company, Kimball Hill Homes, le...
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‘We Were Soldiers’ inspiration diesOct 13, 2012 6:12 am - COLUMBUS, Ga. — Basil L. Plumley, a renowned career soldier whose exploits as an Army infantryman were portrayed in a book and the movie “We Were Soldiers,” has died at ...
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Algonquin mom dies after battle with cancerOct 09, 2012 4:57 pm - Kathy Dozier of Algonquin, whose 12-year-old son hit a grand slam in her honor this summer in Cooperstown N.Y., died Oct. 5, her final days comforted by those exhilarati...