Colbrese longtime educator dies at 38 in Homewood
Nick P Colbrese a 38 year old Homewood resident and former Fond du Lac Wisconsin resident died Monday Sept 20 at St James Hospital Chicago Heights Services will be prayers at 9 15 a m today at Tews Funeral Home Homewood for a 10 a m Mass Infant Jesus of Prague Church Flossmoor Interment in Assumption Cemetery Glenwood Colbrese born Sept 4 1918 in Glendive Montana taught electronics at Bloom Township High School 1955 67 coached football 1959 67 Prairie State College 1967 79 chaired Industrial Technology Department coordinated apprentice program He was an Air Force veteran World War II inventor of the Colbrese auto jumper cable He is survived by wife Evelyn daughter Barbara Chapin two sons William and Nick E a brother Lawrence nine grandchildren also mentioned in obituary. Also obituary note James P Grogan 73 of Midlothian former Waterford Estates Hazel Crest Chicago died Sept 22 services 10 a m Friday St Anne Church Hazel Crest interment Calvary Evanston Visitation 4 9 p m today Jerome Zimny Funeral Home Hazel Crest Memorials Masses.
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Nick P. Colbrese
Homewood
Fond du Lac
Wis
Bloom Township
Prairie State College
St. James Hospital
Chicago Heights
Tews Funeral
Flossmoor
Assumption Cemetery
Glenwood
Colbrese
Glendive
Mont
Bloom Township High School
Dawson County High School
Montana
Stout State University
Wisconsin
Julia Colbrese
Chicago
Lawrence
James P. Grogan
Midlothian
Waterford Estates
Hazel Crest
South Suburban Hospital
St. Anne Catholic Church
Calvary Cemetery
Evanston
Jerome Zimny
Mr. Grogan
Aldens Mail Order Co
American Legion Post 753
Marjorie F
Catherine Dyer
Joliet
Frances Ellen Hoogland
Conley
Park Forest
Olympia Fields Osteopathic Hospital
St. Agnes Catholic Church
Steger
Frances Conley
Janesville
Clinton
John S. Barnes Engineering Co
Rockford
Joliet Draperies
University of Wisconsin
Connie Nowak
Russell
Pensacola
Fla
Hirsch Funeral Homes
Doreen Ann Schultz
Rader
Blue Island
East Hazel Crest
Prudential Insurance Co
Richton Park
St. Anne Church
Beverly Cemetery
Doreen Ann Rader
Charles
George
Jane
Nee Hart) Rader
Lynwood
Diane Mathews
Deborah Feige
Denise Lockle
George Rader
Evergreen Park
Charles and
Doris (Nee Olinger) Schultz Sr
Joseph C. Hodur
Riverdale
Roseland
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey
Thornridge Funeral Home
Dalton
Daniel Tomich
Queen of Apostles Catholic Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Mr. Hodur
Argonne National Laboratories
Lemont
Josephine Hodur
Joseph Jr
Bolingbrook
Richard
California
Florence Hodur
Oklahoma City
Okla
Martha
Nee Wojcik
The Star Announces Free Obituary Notices Policy
The Star states obituaries are published free as a public service and may be edited to fit the newspaper’s format. The policy underscores the paper’s commitment to honoring community members while preserving layout consistency.
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Bauer dies. services set for St. Pauls Lutheran Chicago Heights
Reinhardt H Bauer an eight year New Port Richey resident formerly of Michigan and Anna Illinois died at home on Monday Sept 20. Services at 11 am Saturday at St Pauls Lutheran Church Chicago Heights with burial at St Pauls Lutheran Cemetery Flossmoor. Visitation 2-9 pm Friday at Hirsch West End Chapel Chicago Heights and 10 am Saturday until services. He was born Aug 24 1908 in Decatur Indiana and worked as a supervisor for Studebaker Corp. He was active in Faith Lutheran Church Red Cross Bloodmobile 4 H and Studebaker Drivers Club. Survived by three sons Norman Wayne Charles a friend Lillian Bruegmann 12 grandchildren 10 great grandchildren and wife Clara died 1988. Memorials to hospice Lutheran Layman's League Lutheran Hour or donor's church. Bernice Watkins dies in Phoenix. services today Daniels Chapel A M E Zion Church
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Reinhardt H. Bauer
New Port Richey
Fla
Michigan
Anna, Il
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Chicago Heights
Dale A. Meyer
St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery
Flossmoor
Hirsch Funeral Homes
West End Chapel
Mr. Bauer
Decatur
Ind
Studebaker Corp
Faith Lutheran Church
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Studebaker Drivers Club
Bloom Township High School
Gottlieb Bauer
Norman
Wayne
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charles
Holiday, Fla
Lillian Bruegmann
Clara
Nee Abraham
Lutheran Layman’s League
Lutheran Hour
Bardell and Taksas Memorial Notices From Local Cremations
Sylvia A Bardell longtime Homewood nurse dies at Ingalls Memorial Hospital age 58 services Saturday 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. at St Joseph Homewood interment Assumption Cemetery visitation Friday 2 to 9 p.m. born January 30 1936 Chicago survived by husband Robert father John Schimkus Sr sister Annette Miller brothers John Sonny Schimkus Kenneth Schimkus memorials to American Cancer Society John J Taksas Monee resident dies at Olympia Fields Hospital services were Tuesday Park Forest funeral home born April 19 1913 engineer Illinois Central Railroad survived by wife Vivian daughter Joan five grandchildren great grandchildren Steven John Teefel Crete resident and former local carpenter dies September 15 in Paducah Kentucky services held Crete funeral home interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery born May 29 1968 in Chicago parents John George and Christine Teefel sister Sandra grandparents and extended family survive.
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Sylvia A. Bardell
Homewood
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey
Tews Funeral Home
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Assumption Cemetery
Glenwood
Visitation
Bardell
Chicago
Illinois Central Hospital
South Suburban Hospital
Hazel Crest
Olympia Fields Osteopathic Hospital and Medical Center
South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing
American Nurses Association
Association of
Operating Room Nurses
South Suburban
United States
Mr. Taksas
Hancock
Mich
Illinois Central Railroad
Civilian Conservation Commission
Vivian L
Nee Sorenson
Joan Bacon
Richton Park
Helen Horlitger
the Lake of Four Seasons
Ind
Evarist
Birmingham Hills
Steven John Teefel
Paducah
Crete
Lourdes Hospital
Crete Funeral Home
Joseph Burns
St. Liborius Catholic Church
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Worth
Mr. Teefel
John George
Christine Leslie Teefel
Nee Slaviero
Sandra Teefel
Peoria
Lester and
Gloria Slaviero
Calumet City
Rena Fioravanti
Frances Hoogland Obituary Notices Two Local Women Die
Three obituary notices announce the deaths of Frances Ellen Hoogland of Park Forest Margaret Stone of Homewood and Doreen Ann Schultz of Blue Island. Hoogland died Sunday at Olympia Fields Hospital with services at St Agnes Chicago Heights and interment Calvary Cemetery Steger. Stone died Wednesday at Oak Lawn Convalescent Home with burial in Evergreen Cemetery Evergreen Park. Schultz died Friday at South Suburban Hospital with services at Jerome Zimny Funeral Home Hazel Crest and Mass at St Anne Church Hazel Crest.
Park Forest NAACP forum tackles education gap issue
The Park Forest NAACP sponsors a forum titled Unequal Outcomes in Education Closing the Gap to Zero at Freedom Hall October 2 at 8:30 a.m. The event features three panels on parental involvement discipline and career and scholarship paths with Dr. Jaslin A. Salmon of Triton College as keynote. Advance registration is $7 for adults $1 for students. on site $10. Call 747-4468 for details.
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Park Forest
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Freedom Hall
Lakewood Boulevard
Jaslin A. Salmon
Triton College
Oak Park
The
Sauk Village Church Sets Coffee Break Program
Emmanuel Church Sauk Village hosts Coffee Break with first meetings on Tuesday at 9 30 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. No prior Bible knowledge required. Story Hour for preschoolers runs 9 45 to 11 a.m. with singing stories crafts and games.
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Emmanuel Church
Sauk Village
Memorial service notice for Leslie Lowitz corrected by Star apology
The Star issued an apology to the Lowitz family in Homewood after an obituary notice contained erroneous memorial service information. The correction aims to set the record straight and respect the family's wishes.
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Leslie Lowitz
Homewood
Free Catalog Offer Hits Unseen Appeal
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Ossie Rice dies. Harvey resident had Chicago roots
Ossie Rice, 25 year Harvey resident and former Chicagoan, died Saturday at agalls Memorial Hospital Harvey. Services 7:30 p.m. today at Baker Memorial Chapel Chicago Heights with Rev. John Bishop. Interment Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens Glenwood. Visitation 1 to 7 p.m. today at Robert McCullough Funeral Home Ford. Born March 29 1933 in Columbus Mississippi, he worked as a steelworker for Abex Steel Company. Survived by four daughters Portia Akron Olisa Eldridge Kernersville Teris Charlotte Nickey Chicago a son Ossie Jr Charlotte a sister Christine Madden St. Louis Rose Wilson Debra FINDus Marine Valley Margaret DeShields Cleveland five brothers Jessie Ford Heights Isaac Michigan LeRoy St. Louis James Jr Chicago Heights and Al Memphis and two grandchildren.
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Ossie Rice
Harvey
Chicago
Agalls Memorial Hospital
Baker Memorial Chapel
Chicago Heights
John Bishop
Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens
Glenwood
Robert McCullough
Ford Heights
Mr. Rice
Columbus
Miss
Abex Steel Company
Portia
Akron
Ohio
Olisa Eldridge
Kernersville
N.C
Teris
Charlotte, N.C
Nickey
Ossie Jr
Charlotte
Christine Madden
St. Louis
Rose Wilson
Debra Findus
Marine Valley
Calif
Margaret DeShields
Cleveland
Jessie
Isaac
Michigan
LeRoy
James Jr
Memphis
Tenn
Obituaries Chronicle Five Local Residents’ Deaths
Five obituaries report deaths in September across Chicago Heights Matteson Harvey Lansing and nearby areas. John H Quiring aged 78 formerly of Merts Heating and Air Conditioning died Sept 18 at St James Hospital. Scott Dee Clark 18, carpenter, died Sept 19, services at Hazelgreen Baptist Church. Joseph Hodur Sr 83, scientist at Argonne and WWII veteran, died Sept 16. Gail Knowles 24, homewood resident, memorial service Sept 18. Helen Tylicki 86, longtime Matteson resident, Mass and burial plans finalized. Funeral homes included Steger Addudi Zimny Thornridge Panazzo Bros.
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Helen Tylicki
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Mackey
Phoenix
South Holland
Daniels Chapel
A.M.E. Zion Church
Harry Spigner
Lincoln Cemetery
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Bernice Mackey
Mardline Kennep
Milwaukee, Wis
Merle King
Wendolyn Mackey
Atlanta, Ga
Terrice Mackey
John J. Taksas
Monee
Olympia Fields Hospital
Sain- Sullivan Funeral Home
Frances Hoogland
Margaret Stone
Wojtas
Oak Lawn
Hirsch Funeral Homes Memorial
Tinley Park
Evergreen Cemetery
Margaret Wojtas
Austria- Hungary
Edward
Ruth
Anna Rickon
Maple Heights
Alex
Dassin U. Saime
Tion Forum
Consumer Information Center Department
Pueblo
Colorado
Public Service
Consumer Information Center
U. S. General Services Administration
Jewish Federation
Jewish United Fund
Vreen
ED Eby
Rey
Sylvia P. Axelrod
Joseph Bart Goldie Battock
Joseph L. Black
Rachel Braun
Ernest Burg
Leo R. Barlow Michael Francis Charley
Anne S. Cohen
Kate Cohen
William B. Cohn
Greta Edelson-Goldrich Cecile Edelstein
Harry M., Englestein
Anna S. Foster Frieda Frankel
Miriam Fritz
Edmund B. Froehlich
Harry H. Glass
Lucia A. Glass
Luaine B. Rosenberg
Grace E. Rosenfeld
Sidney Rosenthal
Minna Rosin
Harry L. Rubens
Allan Schimberg
Eli 1. Schnitz
David F. Silverzweig Max Simon Hermina Splitter
Jack Steinberg
Morris Strauss Josephine Luther Rose Tarkotf
Ruth Turivas
Norman Wallace Malke Wisotzky
Esther H. Wolf
Joseph Yale
Herman Zucker
Metropolitan
Jewish United Fund of
Ben Gurion Way
S. Franklin Street
Illinois
John H. Quiring
Merts Heating and Air Conditioning Co
St. Liborius Church
Mr. Quiring
Yorkville
Holy Name Society of St. Liborius Church
Theresa
Nee Gora
John
West Olive, Mich
Ruth Hanlon
Steger Memorial Chapel
Scott Dee Clark
Hazelgreen Baptist Church
Robert Parnell
Oakland
Memory Lanes
Virginia
Donna Ganz
Lansing
Terry Clark
Fort Walton Beach
Terry Clark Jr
Joseph Hopur, Sr
Gail Knowles
Ryan Funeral Home
Joseph Ledwell
First Presbyterian Church of
Ms. Knowles
Berwyn
Sabre Room
Hickory Hills
Richard and
Lois Knowles
Mesa, Ariz
Edith Burke
Crestwood
Joy Knowles
Scottsdale, Ariz
U.S. Hwy
Michigan City
Helen Novak
Sandomierz
Poland
Quain Nichols Company
Tylicki
Arlene
Matteson
Zigmund Novak
Edwin Novak
Matthew Novak
Crown Point
Eleanore Kissel
Frank
Panazzo Bros Funeral Home
Funeral Directors A Guide
Area Funeral Homes
Brown Funeral Home
Lincoln Ave
Orland Park
Davis, Hammond & Prowell Funeral Home
E. 16Th St
DeYoung-Vroegh Funeral Home
E. 162Nd
Iiiish Funeral Homes
Otto Blvd
Holt Funeral Home
W. 159Th
Harvey, IL
Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home
14Th St
Dixie Hwy
South Suburbs
Chicago Rd
Steger, IL
Vandenberg Funeral Home
S. Wolf Mokena
Vincennes Rd
Blk. E. of
Halsted
Wright Funeral Home
W. 154Th
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