Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Congdon in Zion, Illinois


Mary Garside

Mary Garside

February 27, 2008

Mary Louise Garside, 85, of Winthrop Harbor, and more recently of Carmel House in Zion, died on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, Illinois. Mary was born April 17, 1922 in Zering, Illinois, grew up in Bagley, Wisconsin and moved to this area in 1962. On September 10, 1952 she married the late Charles J....

Jarrett Covington

Jarrett Covington

February 26, 2008

Jarett Howard Covington, 16, of Zion, IL, died on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Jarett was born February 15, 1992 in Maywood, IL. He was a well loved and happy young man. Jarett attended Laremont School in Gages Lake, IL and lived in Zion with his parents, Eugene and Ella Ecxford. He will be...

Joyce Schonter

Joyce Schonter

February 21, 2008

Joyce L. Schonter, 74, of Zion, died on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion. Joyce was born April 27, 1933 in Prentice, Wisconsin and has lived in the Beach Park area most of her life. She enjoyed playing cards and she started the Pinocle Club at Carmel House in Zion. Survivors include her three children,...

Marialuz Munji-Logarta

Marialuz Munji-Logarta

February 21, 2008

Marialuz Munji-Logarta, 45, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, passed away on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion. She was born May 21, 1962 in the Philippines and came to this country in 2001. She was employed as a Unit Secretary for St. Mary's Hospital in Racine, Wisconsin and prior to that she worked at Midwestern Regional...

Albert Kalo

Albert Kalo

February 16, 2008

His editorial comments, vocal and printed, are silenced. Albert Ozzie Kalo died on February 16, 2008, in Waukegan, the city in which he was born June 10, 1918. His parents, Sahag and Sarouhi Kaloustian of Armenia, settled here 1916 and instilled in him an immense pride of his Armenian heritage. Ozzie served in the United States Navy, Fleet Marines as...

Sheryl Scrivener

Sheryl Scrivener

February 16, 2008

Sheryl Lorraine Scrivener, 60, of Waukegan, died on Saturday, February 16, 2008, at home. Sheryl was born on June 16, 1947 in Wilmington, Delaware, and moved to Waukegan in 1986 from Guam with her husband Frank who was serving with the U.S. Navy. She married Frank Scrivener Jr. on October 22, 1966, in Annapolis, Maryland. Sheryl was a graduate of...

Kathleen Barton

Kathleen Barton

February 14, 2008

Kathleen Ann Barton, 50 , of Park City, IL, died on Thursday, February 14, 2008, at home. Kathleen was born February 2, 1958, in Chicago. She grew up in Cicero and lived in the Chicago area all of her life. Kathleen married Doug Barton on April 8, 1999, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother....

Dorothy Roy

Dorothy Roy

February 14, 2008

Dorothy Pavlik Roy, 82, of Beach Park died February 14, 2008. Dorothy was born November 13, 1925 in Waukegan, Illinois. She graduated valedictorian of the Class of 1944 from Waukegan High School. She attended the University of Illinois and Iowa State University on scholarship, where she studied Horticulture and Literature. Dorothy enjoyed playing piano for the USO during World War...

John Brown

John Brown

February 13, 2008

John E. Brown, Jr., 65, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, passed away on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 in Englewood, Florida. John was born November 28, 1942 in Waukegan to the late John Sr. and Alice Brown. John worked as an electrical engineer at Abbott Laboratories for 44 years, retiring in 2003. John loved his horses, dogs and cats, and enjoyed NASCAR...

Dale Kober

Dale Kober

February 11, 2008

Dale P. Kober, 68, of Waukegan, Illinois, died Monday, February 11, 2008 at Highland Park Hospital. Dale was born March 14, 1939 in West Bend, Wisconsin, moving to Chicago in 1964, to Deerfield in 1965 and lived in Highland Park from 1968 until 2003 when he moved to Waukegan. He received his undergraduate and his Law Degree from University of...

Thomas Parry

Thomas Parry

February 9, 2008

Thomas Parry, 82, of Beach Park, died on Saturday, February 9, 2008. Thomas was born September 7, 1925, in Zion, IL, and married Marlene Wood on October 5, 1951, in Zion. He served in the United States Navy during World War II from 1943-1946. Thomas was employed as an operating engineer for Union Local #150, retiring in 1989. Survivors include...

Rickard Johnson

Rickard Johnson

February 8, 2008

Rickard D. Johnson, 56, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, passed away on Friday, February 8, 2008 at St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Rickard was born September 17, 1951 in Waukegan and moved to Winthrop Harbor in 1990. He attended Waukegan schools and graduated from Waukegan Township High School in 1969. He was employed at Commonwealth Edison (Exelon) for 31 years,...

Bruce Bolling

Bruce Bolling

February 6, 2008

Bruce G. Bolling Bruce G. Bolling, 82, of Waukegan, died at Condell Hospital in Libertyville on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 following a long illness. Bruce was born May 27, 1925 in Clayton, North Carolina and came to this area in 1948 from Amory, Mississippi. He retired in 1990 from ITT Bell & Gosset in Morton Grove, Illinois and after that...

William Gaddis

William Gaddis

February 4, 2008

William J. "Bill" Gaddis, 91, of Beach Park, died on Monday, February 4, 2008 at home. Bill was born March 4, 1916 in New Auburn, WI, and retired from American Motors in Kenosha in 1978. After retirement he lived in Reedsburg, WI with his first wife, Louise, for many years. He married Nedra Krapf in the early 1980's in Zion,...

Kathleen Vogler

Kathleen Vogler

February 3, 2008

Kathleen Marie Vogler, 55, of Winthrop Harbor, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 3, 2008, at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. Kathleen was born December 14, 1952, in Antigo, WI, and was employed in the restaurant business before working as a student loan counselor. She loved to windsurf and travel.. Kathy spent many happy hours...

Kathleen Vogler

Kathleen Vogler

February 3, 2008

Kathleen Marie Vogler, 55, of Winthrop Harbor, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 3, 2008, at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. Kathleen was born December 14, 1952, in Antigo, WI and was employed in the restaurant business before working as a student loan counselor. She loved to windsurf and travel. Kathy spent many happy hours...

Costah Stidham

Costah Stidham

February 1, 2008

Costah Marie Stidham, 83, of Zion, died on Friday, February 1, 2008, at Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion. Costah was born August 22, 1924, in Marion County, Alabama, and married James Stidham in 1945 in Alabama. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Survivors, include a daughter, Helen (Tom) Plasky of Zion, IL; son, Alan Lane (Suzanne) Stidham...

Ronald Matulnik

Ronald Matulnik

January 28, 2008

Ronald "Ron" Matulnik, 69, of Beach Park and formerly of Mundelein, Illinois, died on Monday, January 28, 2008 at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. Ron was born September 28, 1938 in Chicago. He was currently a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Wadsworth and formerly belonged to Santa Maria Del Popolo in Mundelein. Ron was a Veteran having...

Melvin Prickett

Melvin Prickett

January 27, 2008

Melvin Lee "Red" Prickett, 77, of Park City, Illinois, died on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at Pavilion of Waukegan. He was born June 17, 1930 in Elgin, Illinois and he retired from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Julia; two daughters, Sherry Ostrander and Roxann Amundsen, both of Minnesota; six grandchildren, Jim (Anne) Amundsen,...

William Sandefur

William Sandefur

January 27, 2008

William Arch Sandefur of Beach Park, passed away peacefully on January 27, 2008 at Rolling Hills Manor. William was born March 20, 1930 the only child of Bondine Robinson and Parl Imogien in Sarasota, Florida. At an early age his family moved to Waukegan where William, known as "W.A." attended school, graduating from Waukegan Township High School. He married Janice...