In Memoriam
Ellen Stirling changed rooms when she entered them. “She walked in and was like a breeze of elegance and warmth,” says photojournalist Ellen Warner. “She was, by nature, beautiful, but…
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by Bill McLean •
Ellen Stirling changed rooms when she entered them. “She walked in and was like a breeze of elegance and warmth,” says photojournalist Ellen Warner. “She was, by nature, beautiful, but…
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by Bill McLean •
Dentons Senior Counsel Linda Chaplik Harris hoped for one thing whenever she’d drive esteemed colleague Donald G. Lubin from their law office in Chicago to his home in Highland Park….
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by David A.F. Sweet •
An unbeatable racquets champion who held the world title for 18 years straight, Geoffrey Willoughby Thomas Atkins—who died last month at 94—was the Roger Federer of the sport: graceful, coordinated…
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by Sherry Thomas •
She changed lives. She changed the definition of rehabilitative health care. But most of all, Dr. Joanne C. Smith—who died September 6 following a private battle with cancer—changed the paradigm…
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Holocaust survivor and social activist Fritzie Fritzshall died June 19 at the age of 91. Frtizshall survived the death camps to become a leading voice for Holocaust education. She served…
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by Ann Marie Scheidler •
Beloved longtime Lake Forest resident, mother, grandmother, and friend to many Nancy L. Hughes died on September 15 at Northwestern Memorial Lake Forest Hospital.The 68-year-old was the widow of the…
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by DNS Contributor •
Mr. Philip W. K. Sweet Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northern Trust Corp., who was a longtime leader in civic affairs in Chicago, passed…
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by DNS Contributor •
Former commodities trader and longtime Lake Forest resident Thomas Henry Ritter died on January 23, after living with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He was 74. Mr. Ritter was a husband, dad…
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by DNS Contributor •
Former Lake Forest Academy Board Member and Superior Graphite Company Chairman Peter Roy Carney died on January 11, in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 87. Peter was born in Chicago…
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by Bill McLean •
It was a Maureen Skinner thing. A radio station would play an Elton John song. She’d turn the volume up on the car radio. She’d then sing along, at the…
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