Vera Doby – Mother of Vivian Frazier, Joy Doby-Langford, Shirley Cunningham (Steve), Henry Doby, Jr. (Gloria), William and Anthony Doby; twenty-two grandchildren and thirty-three great-grandchildren; sister of Eloise Irving, Thelma Everett, Baby Helen Taylor, Velma Thomas, Mary Hall, Evett Irving (Addie), Edward Irving, Garfield Irving, Billy Irving; special sister-in-law to Joe Dumas, Sr. and a […]
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City’s First Black Woman Alderman, Mayme Spencer, Remembered As Open-Housing Advocate
A lawyer, civil rights activist and Evanston’s first African American woman alderman, Mayme Finley Spencer (1921-2011) passed away Feb. 8, only three weeks shy of her 90th birthday. A wife, mother and attorney, she was fondly known to many as Auntie Mayme for her work as a family and real estate lawyer and friend to […]
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ETHS Remembers Coach Riehle With Scholarship in His Name
Evanston Township High School is establishing a scholarship in the name of former Wildkits football coach and athletic director John S. Riehle (1947-2010) – a man known for his optimism and humor, his loyalty and kindness and his passion to teach and train, to motivate, mentor and win. Coach Riehle passed away in December at […]
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Elizabeth Ann Brown Gregory
Elizabeth Ann Brown Gregory, affectionately known as “Peggy” was born on July 12, 1930 in Jacksonville, FL, to Hattie Mae Maree and Clarence Brown, Sr. She had two siblings, Clarence Jr. and Jesse Kay. Peggy relocated to Evanston, IL as a young girl and attended Clarke University for two years, where she majored in English. […]
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Methodist Bishop Edsel A. Ammons Founded Center For The Church and the Black Experience at Garrett
Bishop Edsel A. Ammons helped build unity in the United Methodist Church. A pastor, an urban missionary, a teacher at Evanston’s Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, he became the first African American bishop in the church’s nine-state North Central Jurisdiction. That was in 1976. Retired in 1992, Bishop Ammons returned to Evanston to serve as a Garrett […]
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John S. Riehle – Long-time Evanston Football Coach and Athletic Director
On December 16, 2010, beloved football coach, teacher and Evanston Township High School athletic director John S. Riehle passed away at his home in Glenview. He was 63 years old. Growing up in Franklin Park, John attended Luther North High School where he played football and baseball. He was a Chick Evans Scholar at the […]
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Hans Sittler, Services Planned for January
Joseph “Hans” Sittler, was a multi-talented humanist. He was a musician, computer teacher and programmer, auto mechanic, photographer, college Humanities and English teacher, house remodeler, homemaker, bureaucrat, and active father of two children. According to his sister Bay, “He was interested in just about everything, and seemed able to do just about everything.” Joseph Andrew […]
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Irene Suyeoka
Like a great American novel, Irene Suyeoka’s story took dramatic twists and turns and occasionally plucked triumph from the mouth of peril. When she completed her narrative, at age 87, it turned the page of a rich, complex life. She liked to say that her Japanese American story began when her grandmother left Japan on […]
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Memorial Service Oct. 8 for Margaret Blymeir Lee
A memorial visitation for Margaret Blymeir Lee, longtime professor and administrator at Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, will take place Friday, Oct. 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Donnellan Family Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd., Skokie. Ms. Lee recently died Monday, Sept. 13, at the age of 88. A longtime […]
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Zoning expert James T. Murray Buried at Calvary Cemetery
Mr. Zoning they called him around the corridors of Evanston’s civic center. As assistant corporate counsel for the city from 1971 to 1978, James T. Murray (1941-2010) became a local zoning expert and, when he entered private practice, he applied what he’d learn. And always in the most diplomatic way. Friends and legal foes all […]