All Obituaries

Mary Alice Strysick October 13, 1948 - May 13, 2022  

  Maria de los Angeles Guadalupe Reyes Ríos de Guerrero, age 73, passed away peacefully surrounded by her children on Friday, May 13, 2022 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She was born April 4th, 1949 in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico to the union of Jose and Maria Guadalupe (Ríos) Reyes. Maria married Alejandro Guerrero, who preceded her passing in 1992.  In 1982, Maria and her family immigrated to Chicago and settled in the Pilsen neighborhood. Her...

Stella M. (Galla) Grim of Wildwood, Illinois, passed away on May 12, 2022 at the age of 97. Stella was born on October 18, 1924 in Lamberton, Pennsylvania (an H. C. Frick coal mine town) to Luigi Galla and Felice (Natale) Galla, the eighth of their nine children. Stella was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, and two sisters. In 1940, after her father’s death, Stella moved with her mother,  and her siblings who were still living at home, to Lawn Avenue in Uniontown....

Violeta Popescu age 52 of Mt. Prospect passed away on Monday, May 9, 2022 at Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights. She was born on August 31, 1969 in Bucharest, Romania to the union of Virgiliu and Ecaterina (Comanescu) Popescu. The family immigrated to Chicago, Illinois on March 21, 1986 and in that same year she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior was baptized at the First Romanian Fundamentalist Baptist Church by Rev. Daniel Chiu. Violeta graduated from Carl...

Carmella Delores DeFilippis, age 86 of Highland Park passed way on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at Highland Park Hospital. She was born February 24, 1936 in Kenosha, Wisconsin to the union of Frank and Julia (Aiello) DeFilippo. She was a graduate of Highland Park High School and on August 31, 1953 at Saint Rocco Church in Valenzano, Bari, Italy she married Michele DeFilippis. The couple moved to Highwood, Illinois where they started their family. Beloved husband of the late...

Phyllis D. Stands, age 75 of Chicago passed away on Monday, April 18, 2022 at Froedtert Saint Catherine's Medical Center, Kenosha, Wisconsin. She was born April 16, 1947 in Denver, Colorado to the union of Ike and Jennie (Lopez) Stands. She was a graduate of Lakeview High School, class of 1965, She worked for 16 years at Advanced Transformers in Chicago and then for 16 years until her retirement at Culligan Water Treatment Company, Northbrook. Phyllis was born into the Oglala Sioux...

 Robert Michael Merz "Bob", age 66 of Highland Park, Illinois passed away on April 17, 2022 in South Lake Tahoe, California. He was born July 5, 1955 in Glendale, California to the union of Robert Wallace and Patricia (Cairns) Merz.  He graduated from Granada Hills High School, class of 1973 and received an Associates Degree from College of Lake County. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy serving for 8 years as an enlisted man.  In 1982 he married Sarah Jane...

Maria Carmen Ramos Kare, age 74 of Park Forest passed away on Saturday, April 16, 2022 at home. Born July 8, 1947 in the Philippines to the union of Marcial Tomas Kare and Melitona Estela Ramos. A memorial mass will be celebrated on Saturday, May 14, 2022 10:00 A.M. at Saint Luke Catholic Church, 7600 West Lake Street, River Forest, Illinois. Inurnment will be in the Philippines.

Gladys Amy Sands, 88, of Gurnee, IL and formally of Chicago, IL, passed away April 13, 2022 at the Hillcrest Nursing Center of Round Lake Beach, she was born June 15, 1933 in Des Plaines, Il, and was the oldest of five children born to the union of John and Gladys Bartley, Gladys was a caring and loving mother raising three children and had a tremendous love and talent for painting. Gladys is survived by her children; the late Daniel Young, James (Dawn) Young of Grayslake, IL and Jeanine...

David Ferguson Mills.  Known to his friends as Ferg, David Ferguson Mills was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 2, 1943.  He grew up in northern New Jersey and graduated from The Peddie School, Penn State (BA in Psychology) and Indiana University (MBA).  While at Penn State, Ferguson was an active member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.  He competed in lacrosse and rugby in Club sports and enrolled in Penn State's Army ROTC...