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Dennis A. Brebner, 71, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, found peace on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, surrounded by his loving family after a valiant fight with cancer.
Hon. Larry Olen Baker, 81, of Elizabethtown, IL, passed away May 16, 2023, at Baptist Health Paducah. He was a retired Judge and Retired Lt. Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.
Lewis T. Steadman, Jr., beloved husband, father, brother, and grandfather, passed away on May 11, 2023 at the age of 66 after a decade-long battle with early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Peter J. Birnbaum, President and Chief Executive Officer of Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., (ATG®) was recently reappointed by Governor JB Pritzker as the Chief Justice of the Illinois Court of Claims, an action later confirmed by the Illinois Senate. Deborah Frank Feinen, ATG Vice President – Downstate Operations, was recently reelected for her third term as mayor of Champaign, IL, in a contested election where she earned 75% of the vote.
Henry Hardy Sugden III, 73, of Woodstock, passed away on March 31, 2023, at his home in Woodstock, surrounded by his family.
G. Robert "Bob" Mecherle passed away at 3:30 a.m. on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, at 93 years of age in Phoenix, AZ, where he had been in assisted living for the last several years near his daughter Cindy.
Theodore N. Schnell, Jr., 92, of Elgin, passed away April 12, 2023, peacefully at home.
Wayne M. Jensen, 82, formerly of Elgin and Geneva, Illinois, and Salida, Colorado, died April 3, 2023, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Robert R. Egan passed away on Thursday, April 6, 2023, at age 74, from complications from pneumonia after a recent cancer diagnosis.
Hon. Dennis Aloysius Dernbach, a loving husband, father, brother, and uncle, passed away peacefully on April 17, 2023, in Chicago, IL, at the age of 80.