Obituaries
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St. Charles 'correctional giant' dead at 84Dec 04, 2012 1:00 pm - Samuel Sublett Jr. was the 35-year-old leader of the then Illinois Training School for Boys at St. Charles when a head count revealed two escapees. Sublett tracked them ...
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Barrington Chamber of Commerce mourns death of marketing directorDec 04, 2012 10:00 am - Staff members at the Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce are mourning the loss of their young marketing and communications director, Lauren Brown. Brown passed away Nov....
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Wheeling High School mourns longtime principalDec 03, 2012 9:00 am - By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent Thomas Shirley retired more than 20 years ago, but longtime administrators with Northwest Suburban High School District 214...
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John ‘Jack’ Ryan loved Geneva, volunteeringDec 02, 2012 3:00 pm - John “Jack” Ryan was a businessman, a proud father and one of Geneva’s biggest fans. The 78-year-old former owner of Ryan Automotive, chairman of the Geneva Chamber of ...
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Motivational speaker, author Ziglar dies at 86Nov 28, 2012 6:51 pm - In Zig Ziglar’s world, the morning alarm rang on the “opportunity clock.” And “if you aren’t on fire” when you get to work, “then your wood is wet.” And you have to reme...
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Wiseman-Hughes suburban home builder James Hughes dies at 91Nov 27, 2012 12:13 pm - A man who spent a lifetime building thousands of homes throughout the West and South suburbs is being remembered for his devotion to providing quality products. James P....
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Former White Sox pitcher Hal Trosky Jr. diesNov 25, 2012 12:41 pm - CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Hal Trosky Jr., who briefly played in the major leagues and was the son of the late Cleveland Indians great Hal Trosky Sr., has died. He was 76. Tea...
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Civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot dies at 73Nov 25, 2012 12:17 pm - WASHINGTON — Lawrence Guyot, a civil-rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get involved, h...
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Larry Hagman, J.R. Ewing on ‘Dallas,’ dies at 81Nov 23, 2012 11:00 pm - Larry Hagman, whose portrayal of a rapacious, roguishly charming Texas oilman on the nighttime soap opera “Dallas” left a worldwide television audience wondering, “Who s...
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Des Plaines woman ‘dedicated her life to Maryville’Nov 23, 2012 2:53 pm - For more than 40 years, the Rev. John Smyth was the face of Maryville Academy in Des Plaines, but those who worked with him knew who his driving force was: Loretta Mroz,...