Survivors include a son, Associate Judge Mark J. Lopez of Cook County Circuit Court.
Peter Pappas
Former Illinois attorney Peter V. Pappas of Lake Bluff died May 4 at age 81 of injuries from an automobile accident in Williamstown, N.J., where he had recently relocated.
After Army service during World War II as a second lieutenant in the Medical Administrative Corps, Mr. Pappas graduated in 1949 from the Loyola University School of Law. He was counsel to several interstate automobile transport firms for 16 years.
In 1965, Mr. Pappas began an eight-year tenure with the Illinois secretary of state's office, serving under three secretaries and helping to draft codifications of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
He received an honorary lifetime membership in the Illinois Library Association for his support of the public library system, and he was honored by the Illinois Professional Firefighters Association for helping to enact pension laws.
Mr. Pappas later became involved in the operation of two Chicago restaurants, Ireland's and Barney's Market Club.
Robert Predan
LaGrange attorney Robert A. M. Predan, retired corporate counsel for Allied Signal and Fiat Allis, died in May at age 70. A 1965 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, he served in the Navy during the Korean War.
Roger Quinnan
Winnetka attorney Robert M. Quinnan, a retired partner in Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, died May 17 at age 70 of pulmonary fibrosis in Evanston Hospital. A 1957 graduate of the University of Detroit Law School, he had a master's degree in tax law from New York University.
After clerking in the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C., Mr. Quinnan was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1960, when he joined Baker & McKenzie. He became a partner in 1963 and also worked in the firm's New York City and Minneapolis offices.
Mr. Quinnan retired in 1988 and became a tax accountant for H&R Block.
David Riesman
David Riesman, a Harvard Law School graduate who was a professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago from 1947 to 1958, died May 10 at age 92 in Binghampton, N.Y. He was the author of the 1950 book, "The Lonely Crowd," an acclaimed sociological study about dependence on authority and peer approval.
Mr. Riesman was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and deputy assistant New York County district attorney before joining the University of Chicago faculty. He also taught at Harvard until 1980.
Theodore Robinson
Chicago attorney Theodore C. "Theo" Robinson, a resident of LaGrange, died in May at age 86. A 1940 honors graduate of the Western Reserve University Law School, he was commanding officer of a Navy submarine chaser during World War II.
Mr. Robinson had been an associate, partner and trial counsel with Ray, Robinson, Hanninen & Carle and Ray, Robinson, Carle, Davies & Snyder for more than 40 years in Chicago and Cleveland, and he became of counsel in 1986.
A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he served on the executive committee of the Maritime Law Association of the U.S. from 1981 to 1986. He was president of the Chicago chapter of the Propellor Club of the U.S. from 1966 to 1968 and a member of the International Shipmaster's Association.
Sterling Schrock
Michigan attorney Sterling William Schrock, formerly of Dixon, died April 15 at age 79 in his St. Joseph, Mich., home. He had been Houghton County prosecuting attorney and an assistant Michigan attorney general.
A 1949 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, Mr. Schrock served in the Army Air Corps during World War II as a B-26 pilot in Europe. Survivors include a son, St. Joseph attorney Sterling Roy Schrock.
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