Obituaries
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Longtime Wheaton educator made her markSep 16, 2012 4:18 pm - Helen Gum Westlake spent her elementary school years in a one-room country schoolhouse near Elburn, always the lone student of her class and usually left to fend for her...
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Lifelong sign professional Victor Laska had many community tiesSep 13, 2012 10:46 am - Given the nature of his first job in the sign business, one wouldn’t have faulted Victor Laska for pursuing another career. As the new guy at the family-owned Laco Signs...
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Former Elgin assistant police chief diesSep 12, 2012 1:49 pm - Edward Christ of Elgin loved to travel and feed birds — rain or shine — but what defined him was a great sense of responsibility, said his daughter, Cynthia Nelson. Chri...
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Catholic school community mourns Sr. Ann BuschSep 11, 2012 12:46 pm - Sister Ann Busch ~ 1940-2012 Administrators at St. Anne Catholic School in Barrington and St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights counseled grieving students th...
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Local WWII vet remembered for special diplomaSep 10, 2012 10:00 am - Buffalo Grove man dies at 86
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Former D103 administrator dies:Sep 07, 2012 4:20 pm - Former Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103 teacher and administrator Darryl Handcock died Friday morning after a two-year fight with cancer, officials have ann...
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Northwest suburbs loses longtime music educatorSep 06, 2012 1:00 pm - Robert Henry taught band students in Mount Prospect Elementary District 57 for nearly four decades, before retiring to teach privately throughout the District 214 area. ...
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Former Elgin man drowned saving grandson in WisconsinSep 05, 2012 11:00 pm - Sunday afternoon was a beautiful day on Lake Michigan. Fran Schmidt said the day her husband died at a beach in Sheboygan, Wis., the water looked like the beautiful aqua...
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Chicago-born 'Green Mile' actor dead at 54Sep 03, 2012 4:45 pm - LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan was one big, irresistible jumble of contradictions. His presence was formidable, even intimidating: The former bodyguard had a muscul...
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‘Raindrops’ lyricist Hal David dies at 91Sep 02, 2012 9:17 am - LOS ANGELES — Hal David was a man of simple words. A writer by trade — and a journalist by education — David had a knack for encapsulating love, earnestness and a wry s...