Kenan Heise

Clare C. Lyden, 91, who was a kindergarten teacher for 32 years at Francis W. Parker School, died Monday in her home in the Old Town neighborhood. "She was one...

Barbara Borre, 100, who grew up on a truck farm in Niles Center, now Skokie, operated a grocery store for many years at 3142 W. Central Ave. in Evanston. A...

Robert W. Palmer, 67, an engineer for CPC International (Corn Products) for more than 25 years, worked since his retirement as a consultant in the use of pre-stressed concrete. A...

William A. Redmond, 84, speaker of the Illinois House from 1975 to 1981, served as a Democrat in that body from 1959 to 1982, representing a section of strongly Republican...

Duke ''Daddy Duke'' Groner, 84, a jazz musician, began as a vocalist with Nat ''King'' Cole and later became a bass player who also composed songs. In recent years, he...

Dr. Frederic A. Gibbs, 89, a psychiatrist and neurologist, played a key role with his late wife, Erna, in explaining the causes, diagnoses and treatments of epilepsy. They pioneered the...

R. John Queeney, 79, a retired marketing manager for Illinois Bell Telephone Co., started with the firm as a ''nickel snatcher''-or collector from coin-operated home telephones-and eventually helped market and...

George F. Lauritzen, 79, founder and chief executive officer of Lauritzen and Co. Inc. of Wheeling from 1943 to 1982, helped extend the food processing firm to international markets through...

Jay McMullen, 71, the flamboyant husband of former Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne, was equally controversial in his more than 23 years as a City Hall reporter for the Chicago...

Milton Leonard Fisher, 70, a retired partner in the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt, was a top expert in bankruptcy law and the former chairman of the Chicago...