Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Congdon in Zion, Illinois
Clyde Slay
October 5, 2010
Clyde Slay, 84, a resident of Beach Park, IL, since 1959, passed away on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, at Aurora Medical Center, Kenosha. Wisconsin. Clyde was born September 3, 1926, in Itawamba County, MS, and married Vetris Wallace on September 23, 1945. He retired from Johns-Manville in Waukegan, IL, after about 35 years of employment. At Johns-Manville he was a...
Clara Horning
October 2, 2010
Clara Ruth Horning, 99, of Zion, Illinois, died on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. Clara was born August 12, 1911 in Holladay, Tennessee and came to the Zion area around 1928. She was a long-time member of Memorial United Methodist Church of Zion. Clara retired from Johns-Manville in Waukegan after 36 years of employment...
Marie Loew
September 29, 2010
Marie C. Loew of Cape Coral, Florida passed away peacefully in the early hours of September 29th, 2010. Born in Chicago on July 26, 1925, she lived many years in Kenosha, Wisconsin and was proud of her 30 years at Abbott. She retired to Cape Coral where she remained active with crafts and hobby club. She spent her last 5...
Joyce Ashmore
September 29, 2010
Joyce A. Ashmore, 80, of Beach Park, went to be with her Lord Jesus Christ on Wednesday, September 29, 2010, at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. Joyce was born December 5, 1929, in Zion, and lived in this area most of her life, except for ten years living in Florida from 1997 to 2007. She married Edward H. Ashmore...
Clifford Brauck
September 29, 2010
Clifford Del Brauck, 90, passed away on September 29, 2010 at the Richard Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, South Carolina. He was born July 8, 1920 in Waukegan. Cliff retired to South Carolina in 1988 after working for Lamkin Leather in Chicago as a Mechanical Engineer. Cliff was inventive, brilliant, and met each moment with a smile. With his...
Charlene Bryan
September 28, 2010
Charlene "Char" Bryan, 63, of Zion, IL, passed away on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. Charlene was born November 23, 1946, in Chicago, IL, and graduated from Resurrection High School in 1965. She married Robert A. Bryan on October 1, 1966, in Harwood Heights, IL. Charlene retired from the Special Education District of Lake...
Mary McGee
September 26, 2010
Mary V. McGee, 88, of Zion, Illinois, died on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at Rolling Hills Manor Nursing Home in Zion. Mary was born June 11, 1922 in Chicago and had lived in Park Ridge, Illinois and more recently Zion. She was a member of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waukegan. Mary was a member and Past Matron of...
Shirley Wagner
September 26, 2010
Shirley Ann Wagner (nee Roach), 69, of Zion, Illinois, died on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at home and surrounded by her family. Shirley was born March 11, 1941 in Chicago and moved to Zion in 1976. She was a member of Our Lady of Humility Church of Beach Park. Shirley was employed in the Deli at Piggly Wiggly of Zion,...
Virginia Williams
September 24, 2010
Virginia LaDean Williams, 85, of Beach Park, IL, passed away on Friday, September 24, 2010, at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, with her family by her side. Virginia was born November 16, 1924, in Marion, IL, and married Robert Williams on October 16, 1953. She retired from St. Therese Hospital in Waukegan where she was Director of Patient Accounts....
Billy Harvey
September 21, 2010
Lieutenant Commander Billy D. Harvey, 79, of Waukegan, IL, passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on Tuesday, September 21, 2010. Billy was born October 1, 1930, in Dallas, TX, and married Mary Virginia Vetter on March 4, 1950, at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland. He was a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago. Billy attended Our Lady...
Inez Larson
September 21, 2010
Born Sept. 2, 1922 in Conklin Michigan passed away Sept. 21, 2010 after a long illness with cancer. She recently celebrated her 88th birthday at home. She was preceded in death by her husband Paul G. Larson (1979) and her first son Bruce E. Larson (1988.) She is survived by her sister Esther Poulsen of Zion and her son Brian...
Nora Burrage
September 20, 2010
Nora Burrage, 96, of Wadsworth, Illinois died on Monday, September 20, 2010 at Clairidge House in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Nora was born July 26, 1914 in Tupelo, Mississippi and has lived in Zion most of her life. She retired in 1969 after working 25 years at the Veterans Administration Hospital in North Chicago. Nora enjoyed going to dinner with her friends...
Austin Hens
September 20, 2010
Austin W. Hens Jr., 93, of Zion, died on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at Rolling Hills Manor Nursing Home in Zion. Austin was born February 16, 1917 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Zion after hearing of the City on a radio broadcast on the old Zion radio station. He graduated from Zion Parochial Schools. Austin was a life-long...
James Cowart
September 19, 2010
James D. Cowart "Jim" Age 77, of Friendship, Wisconsin, formerly of Zion, Illinois, died September 15, 2010 at his home in Friendship, Wisconsin. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, September 19, 2010 at Congdon Funeral Home, 3012 Sheridan Rd., in Zion, Illinois at 7:00p.m. Interment will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Zion, Illinois. Visitation will be at...
Lee Penttinen
September 18, 2010
Lee "Ace" Penttinen, 70, of Waukegan, IL, passed away on Saturday, September 18, 2010, at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. Lee was born August 4, 1940, in Waukegan, and was a 1959 graduate of Waukegan Township High School. He married Gay Halvorsen on October 7, 1972. Lee was a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Waukegan. He owned...
Sue Steele
September 17, 2010
Sue Steele, 79, died at home with her family by her side on Friday, September 17, 2010. She was born in Sugar Tree, Tennessee. She was a resident of Lake County since early adulthood. She was a former employee of Fansteel. Later, she owned her own hair salon until she retired. She lived with her daughter Janice for the last...
Velma Welch
September 15, 2010
Velma Welch, 99, of Beach Park, Illinois, died on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at her home. Velma was born September 7, 1911 in Olive Hill, Tennessee and moved to Zion in 1943 from Itawamba County, Mississippi. She was a member of Zion Church of Christ. Velma retired in 1976 from Abbott Labs after 27 years and prior to that had...
Eileen Czarny
September 14, 2010
Eileen Rose Czarny, 61, of Winthrop Harbor, IL, formerly of Zion, IL, died on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, at Glenbrook Hospital, Glenview, IL, after a life-long battle with diabetes. Eileen was born March 5, 1949, in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. She proudly co-owned Czarny's Harbor Lights Restaurant and Lounge in Winthrop Harbor from 1989-1994 with her late husband, Edmund. Her...
Edythe McConnaughey
September 11, 2010
Edythe McConnaughey, former long-time resident of Winthrop Harbor, died recently after a long illness at the home of her daughter, Karla, in South Carolina. She was born in Bemiji, Minnesota and lived there a short time before moving to the Zion area. She graduated from Zion High School and lived most of the rest of her life in the Zion...
Georgia Fountain
September 3, 2010
Georgia Lee (Weaver) Fountain passed away Friday, September 3, 2010 at the age of 63 after a short-term illness. A life long resident of Central Square, NY who had recently relocated to Hermiston, Oregon. Predeceased by her four children Marnie, Kimberly, Jody, Jamie and parents Henry and Shirley Weaver. She is survived by her loving husband Richard (Ken) Fountain of...
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Congdon Funeral Home Cremation Service is a collection of obituaries for Zion, IL. With services throughout Illinois. Zion, Winthrop Harbor, Beach Park, Wadsworth, Waukegan, Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha communities and beyond that are updated regularly.
