After receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering in 1962, Mr. Larson worked for Texas Instruments in the U.S. and Asia before deciding to attend law school. He then joined the law firm then known as Allegretti, Newitt, Witcoff & McAndrews.
Adolf Loeb
Retired attorney Adolf L. Loeb, who practiced in Illinois and California, died in early January, shortly after his 90th birthday, in Sacramento.
A 1938 graduate of The John Marshall Law School, he practiced with the Lester Abelson law firm and Schwartz & Cooper before moving to the West Coast. He was an administrative law judge for OSHA until he was more than 80 years old.
James Mohan
Retired Springfield attorney James Thayer Mohan died Nov. 28 at age 77 in St. John's Hospital. A 1949 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1950, he was of counsel to Mohan, Alewelt, Prillaman & Adami.
A part-time teacher of economics and political science at the university while he studied law, Mr. Mohan practiced with the John M. Mitchem Law Offices in Urbana from 1949 to 1951. He was an Air Force judge advocate from 1951 t0 1953.
From 1953 to 1960, Mr. Mohan was an associate at Stevens, Herndon & Nafzifger. He was a partner from 1960 to 1965 and subsequently formed his own firm.
Thomas O'Keefe
Retired Chicago corporate attorney Thomas J. O'Keefe Jr. died Dec. 19 at age 83 of cancer in his Dallas, Texas, home. A Navy officer in the South Pacific during World War II, he was a 1948 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.
Mr. O'Keefe joined the General Finance Corp legal department and later became an officer of Associates Corp. of North America, retiring in 1987 as executive vice president and general counsel.
Paul Preston
Retired Cook County judge Paul P. Preston died Dec. 16 at age 91 in his Chicago home. A 1939 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was a personal injury practitioner and corporate counsel until he became a judge in 1979. During the Vietnam War, he was appointed to the Selective Service Board.
Mr. Preston was barred by age from retention in 1991, but was recalled to the bench until he retired in 1997 at age 84. He continued to serve the circuit court as an arbitrator for three more years.
Survivors include a son, Cook County Judge Lee Preston.
G. Patrick Riley
Retired Eureka attorney G. Patrick Riley died Dec. 3 at age 64 at BroMenn Regional Medical Center, Normal. A 1974 graduate of the Drake University Law School, he had been a high school teacher and basketball coach and a professional golfer.
Mr. Riley's practice included two terms as Woodford County state's attorney. He was a trustee of Kaufman Park.
Felecia Shankle-Rogers
Chicago attorney Felecia Shalynne Shankle- Rogers died Dec. 8 at age 27 in Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Texas, after falling ill during her honeymoon. A 2001 honors graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, she was an associate at Leydig, Voit & Mayer.
David Spark
Retired Chicago attorney David I. Spark, formerly of Highland Park, died in December at age 94. Born in the Ukraine, he moved to Romania at age 6 and to Chicago at age 13. A 1934 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Spark retired in 1995.
Louis Spear
Retired Chicago newspaper executive Louis L. Spear, a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, died Dec. 26 at age 89 of myasthenia gravis in Miami Jewish Hospital.
Born in Russia, Mr. Spear moved to England before emigrating to the U.S. in 1926 at age 12. After receiving his law degree in 1938, he practiced in Chicago until 1951, when he was named circulation director of the Chicago Sun-Times.
A former vice president of the Newspaper Distributors Association of Chicago, Mr. Spear was a trustee of Roosevelt University and Chicago-Kent and a board member of financial institutions.
Morris Stickgold
Retired U.S. Justice Department attorney Morris Stickgold, a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, died Dec. 24 at age 96 of kidney failure in Oceanview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Santa Monica, Calif. A Wilmette resident for 48 years, he moved to California last year.
Unable to get work in a law firm during the Depression, Mr. Stickgold became an agent of the federal Alcohol Tax Division. When Prohibition ended in 1933, he was appointed special agent in charge of investigations for the Agriculture Department.
Howard Trimble
Retired Princeton attorney Howard B. Trimble died Nov. 21 at age 85 at the Illinois Veterans Home in LaSalle. After Marine Corps service during World War II, he received a bachelor of law degree and juris doctorate in 1951 at the University of Mississippi Law School.
Mr. Trimble was an agent for the Office of Price Stabilization in Jackson, Miss., and the Civil Service Commission in New Orleans and Nashville before becoming an attorney for the Mississippi Tax Commission.
In 1958, he joined the Princeton firm of Trimble & Trimble, which had been established in the 19th century by Cairo A. Trimble and Perry D. Trimble. It was Trimble, Angel, Isaacson & Tracy when he retired in 1998.
Former executive director, secretary and treasurer of the Bureau County Housing Authority, Mr. Trimble helped establish the county's day care center and served on its board for several years. As pro bono chair for the Bureau County Bar Association, he received an ISBA Community Service Award in 1989.
R. Sheridan Welch
Kewanee attorney R. Sheridan Welch died Nov. 19 at age 85 in Kewanee Hospital. A veteran of Navy service in the western Pacific during World War II, he graduated in 1946 from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Mr. Welch joined the Kewanee firm of his father, Thomas J. Welch, and later added his son, Michael C. Welch, who preceded him in death.
A past president of the Henry County Bar Association, Mr. Welch was also president of the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center board. He served on the boards of the Kewanee Library, Social Service, the Community Chest, Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees.
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