After studying at both the Northwestern University School of Law and DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Barasa joined the law practice of his father, Bernard P. Barasa, the first Italian-American elected to the Cook County Circuit Court.
In 1941, Mr. Barasa became legal counsel for the Illinois Department of Regulation, and he became assistant to the chair of the Industrial Commission in 1946 and was its secretary from 1953 to 1961. After another stint in private practice, he rejoined the commission in 1968 an arbitrator of workers' compensation cases.
Mr. Barasa was the brother of Chicago attorneys J. Laurence Barasa and Kathryn Barasa Rinella, a past president of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, and the brother-in-law of Samuel A. Rinella. Survivors include a nephew, Bernard B. Rinella of Rinella & Rinella.
Roscoe Batts
Retired corporate attorney Roscoe W. Batts died July 7 at age 88 in California. A graduate of the Indiana University Law School, he was a night watchman for International Harvester while a student.
After graduation, Mr. Batts joined the corporation's legal department in Chicago. He retired in 1976 after serving as executive vice president.
Richard Bernardi
Olympia Fields attorney Richard L. Bernardi died in August at age 48. He was a 1980 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.
Alice Boyer
Former Missouri attorney and state legislator Alice J. Tanner Boyer, a resident of Homewood, died in July at age 82. A Women's Army Corps truck driver and troop movement recorder in England during World War II, she studied law on the GI Bill after the war as a member of the Army Reserve and was elected to the Missouri legislature.
Assigned to the Judge Advocate Unit, she married a senior law officer, taught law and was a librarian at the Kansas City Law School. She continued to do pro bono legal work while raising a family.
Peter Edge
Retired Chicago attorney Peter Edge, a Winnetka resident and former partner in Arnstein & Lehr, died Aug. 16 at age 89. A 1938 graduate of Harvard Law School, he was a Coast Guard lieutenant and navigator in the Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II.
Mr. Edge was a founding life member and past president of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary near Kempton, Pa., and an avid bird watcher with more than 4,000 sighted species.
Raymond Frey
Raymond Michael Frey of Chicago and Paris, Ill., died Aug. 1 at age 64 in a Chicago hospital from an infection related to cancer. A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he was an international corporate attorney in Europe, South America and the Middle East for many years.
Arthur Galt
Former McHenry County attorney Arthur Thomas Galt Jr. died July 21 at age 90 in a Wisconsin hospital. A former resident of Greenwood, he lived in New Lisbon, Wis.
A graduate of Kent Law School (now Chicago-Kent), Mr. Galt was a captain with the 1st Army Tank Division in Belgium and Germany during World War II and a member of the Black Horse Troop. He remained after the war to serve as legal counsel to the War Crimes Commission in Nuremburg.
Mr. Galt was instrumental in starting the Civil Air Patrol at Galt Airport near Wonder Lake, and he was inducted into the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame in 1999.
He was a past president of the Maywood Park Trotting Association, a member of the Red Cross board, an officer of First Presbyterian Church of Woodstock and a volunteer in the Greenwood School mentor program.
Robert Gartland
Retired Chicago real estate attorney Robert E. Gartland of Niles died in July at age 88. A 1938 graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
M. Leonard Goodman
Retired Chicago attorney M. Leonard Goodman died July 13 at age 82 in Kennesaw, Ga. A 1943 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he was deputy chief probation officer for adjudication of the Cook County Circuit Court Juvenile Justice and Child Protection Department when he retired to Georgia two years ago.
Lloyd Gregerson
Lloyd G. Gregerson of Zionsville, Ind., associate counsel for the Prudential Insurance Co. in Chicago until his retirement in 1986, died in July at age 71. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1959, he had been a lieutenant in the Army Judge Advocate General Department.
Michael Kalika
Chicago attorney Michael Kalika, a former administrative law judge with the Illinois Department of Employment Security, died in July at age 76. He was a 1951 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law.
Joseph McGrane
Former Chicago Heights attorney Joseph J. McGrane died in August at age 93. A 1939 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was a partner in McGrane, Perozzi, Stelter, Gerardi, Brauer & Ross when he retired in 1996.
William McNamara
Former Oak Park attorney William J. McNamara, a past president of the West Suburban Bar Association, died Aug. 10 at age 86 in Painesville, Ohio. A 1940 graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School, he was a partner in McNamara & Marcus until his retirement in 1982.
Andrew Schnack
Retired Quincy attorney Andrews C. Schnack Jr. died July 2 at age 79. A 1949 graduate of the Valparaiso University Law School, he had been an Army Air Corps cryptographer and plane spotter in British Guinea and the Panama Canal Zone during World War II.
After two years of practice, Mr. Schnack formed a law partnership in 1951 with his brother, Loren E. Schnack, who had been admitted to the bar in 1950 and remains of counsel to the Schnack Law Office, formerly Schnack, Schnack & Cashman.
Andrews Schnack retired in 1989. He was a board member of Spring Lake Country Club and former board member of the Quincy YMCA.
In addition to his brother, he is survived by a son, Andrew C. Schnack III, and a nephew, Kent R. Schnack, both of the Quincy law firm.
Wallace Solum
Chicago Heights attorney Wallace G. Solum of Solum & Hopper died June 4 at age 80. A 1949 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he had earned a Bronze Star as a Navy lieutenant commander during World War II.
At one time a partner in the Chicago firm of Solum & McGarr, Mr. Solum had been a partner in the Chicago Heights firm for 16 years. In his first years out of law school, he won a case before the Illinois Supreme Court that established East Chicago Heights (now Ford Heights) as a village.
Mr. Solum was Crete village attorney for 30 years, and he also represented the villages of Steger and East Chicago Heights. He was special corporation counsel for Chicago Heights in the late 1960s.
Charles Wolff
Retired Chicago workers' compensation attorney Charles Wolff, a resident of Peterson Park, died in August at age 91. He was a 1935 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
Survivors include two sons, Chicago attorneys Daniel H. Wolff and Henry P. Wolff.
Phillip Wood
Aurora attorney Phillip S. Wood died July 26 at sge 58 of cancer in his son's Elmhurst home. First in his 1978 class at the Lewis University Law School (now Northern Illinois University College of Law), he had been a Glendale Heights police officer and a night law student until he was struck by a drunken driver.
A partner in Wood & Johnson, Mr. Wood represented more than 100 of the air traffic controllers who were fired after going on strike in 1981, and helped them form the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. A former Wheaton postmaster, Mr. Wood served on the Glendale Heights Police Pension Board for 20 years.
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