Kenan Heise

Aaron D. ''Doc'' Pashkow, 90, founder and longtime president of Chocolate Products Co., created in the 1920s a syrup that dairies mixed with skim milk and delivered door to door--to...

William C. Griffin, 87, retired Skokie police chief, started on the force in 1933, when it had six officers, and retired in 1959, when it had 41. Services will be...

Howard S. Powell, 86, retired vice president in charge of traffic for the Illinois Central Railroad, worked for the IC for 43 years. He was a brother of the late...

Mary Spoor Brand, 98, an artist, was the sister of motion picture pioneer George K. Spoor. As a child in the mid-1890s, she performed in one of his earliest sequences....

Theodore O. Yntema, 85, an economist, was a longtime University of Chicago professor, a member of the (Presidential) Committee on Economic Development and a former vice president and director of...

Cartoonist Chester Gould, 84, creator and artist of the ''Dick Tracy'' comic strip for 46 years, died of congestive heart failure at his farm home in Woodstock early Saturday. He...

Mass for Leon F. McGrath, a retired Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) marketing executive and longtime Near North Side resident, will be said at 10 a.m. Thursday in Holy Name Cathedral,...