Retired Orland Park attorney Rosemary Filter Larkin reportedly died in May at age 64 on the Caribbean island of Bequia, to which she and her husband had moved in 1995.
A graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and president of the South Suburban Bar Association in 1992-93, she was the daughter of Chicago attorney Patrick S. Filter. A 1995 recipient of an ISBA John C. McAndrews Pro Bono Service Award, he died in June 1999.
H. Haskell Lurie
Retired Chicago attorney H. Haskell "Hy" Lurie died in July at age 95. A member of the Illinois bar since 1934, he was a partner in Lurie & Cahan and Lurie & Lipschultz before retiring in 1988.
Edward Maag
Retired Belleville attorney Edward Gordon Maag died June 28 at age 80 in Gateway Regional Medical Center, Granite City. After Navy service during World War II, he graduated in 1950 from the Washington University Law School.
An assistant U.S. attorney from 1953 to 1958, Mr. Maag was vice president of the St. Louis chapter of the Federal Bar Association in 1957-58. He retired from Walker & Williams in 1984 and later had a law practice in Columbia. He was of counsel to Mathis, Marifian, Richter & Grandy from 1991 to 1999.
General counsel to Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in St. Louis from 1977 to 1984, Mr. Maag also chaired the hospital board. He was legal counsel for Ainad Shrine and imperial legal counsel for Shriners of North America.
Survivors include a son, retired appellate justice Gordon Esler Maag of Glen Carbon, and a grandson, Thomas Gordon Maag of the Lakin Law Firm in Wood River.
Thomas Metskas
Chicago attorney Thomas S. Metskas died May 30 at age 73 of leukemia in his Park Ridge home. A former partner in Ebers, Metskas, Bjorvik & Kyros, he was the court-appointed guardian ad litem for several estates.
A 1958 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, Mr. Metzkas was a Marine Corps lieutenant.
Mordecai More
Chicago attorney Mordecai Martin More died June 25 at age 82 in the Warren Barr Pavilion. After service in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he graduated in 1950 from the University of Chicago Law School.
Edward Osann
Retired Chicago patent attorney Edward W. Osann Jr. died May 28 at age 86 in Chesterton, Ind. A 1948 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II, including the occupation of Japan, and left service as a lieutenant senior grade.
After 40 years in practice, Mr. Osann retired as senior partner in Carlson, Pitzner, Hubbard & Wolfe. He moved to northwest Indiana and provided volunteer legal representation to the Save the Dunes Council in an effort to block construction of a nuclear power plant.
He was honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Park Service, the Izaak Walton League and the Indiana Conservation Council.
Victor Peters
Retired Northfield attorney Victor S. Peters Jr., a Winnetka resident, died in June at age 85. A 1949 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he was a Navy officer in the South Pacific during World War II.
Mr. Peters practiced for several years in Peters & Peters with his wife, Mildred G. Peters, who survives. He was a founder and president of the North Shore Senior Center and a member of the Winnetka Community House board.
Robert Potter
Retired Morrison attorney Robert Henry Potter died June 4 at age 87 in the Resthaven Nursing Home. A 1946 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he was a captain in the Navy Reserves for several years.
Mr. Potter became a partner in 1952 in Bull, Ludens & Potter, now Ludens, Potter, Burch & Melton, and was assistant Whiteside County state's attorney from 1952 to 1962. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he retired in 2002.
A member of the ISBA Legal Ethics Committee from 1967 to 1972, Mr. Potter was its chair for two years. He also served on the Senior Lawyers Section Council.
Survivors include a son, Thomas J. Potter, a partner in the Morrison firm.
James Rice
Frankfort attorney James Blaine Rice died recently at age 82. A veteran of Navy service during World War II, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1949.
Paul Sheridan
Retired Cook County associate judge Paul Michael Sheridan Jr. died June 21 at age 68 in his summer home at Long Beach, Ind. After service as in the Marine Corps on Okinawa, he graduated in 1964 from the DePaul University College of Law and became an assistant Cook County state's attorney.
When his father died in 1967, Mr. Sheridan took his seat as an alderman in Chicago's 16th Ward and served one term. He was an assistant city corporation counsel until 1988, when he was appointed an associate judge.
Mr. Sheridan handled criminal cases in the 6th Municipal District courthouse in Markham until he left the bench in 1998.
Survivors include a brother, retired associate judge Philip M. Sheridan, and two sons: Paul M. Sheridan III of Madden, Jiganti, Moore & Sinars, and Luke P. Sheridan of O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen.
Lary Stone
Retired Chicago attorney and administrative law judge Lary G. Stone died in June at age 68. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1962.
Gregory Sun
Chicago attorney Gregory R. Sun, a resident of Palos Hills, died June 4 at age 55 in Palos Community Hospital after a heart attack. A native of Hong Kong, he graduated in 1983 from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Survivors include his wife, Luanne M. Galovich of Jac A. Cotiguala & Associates, Chicago.
Julian Tishler
Retired Chicago attorney Julian Albert Tishler died June 8 at age 95 of prostate cancer in La Mesa, Calif. He was a 1934 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Tishler was corporate attorney for the Walgreen Co. until 1947, when he opened Herman's, an appliance and sporting goods store in Hyde Park. He added a television and radio rental and repair business in 1952.
Mr. Tishler later moved the store to the South Shore area and added ladies' handbags and accessories. He retired to San Diego in 1968 and sold commercial real estate until he moved to La Mesa in 1979.
A tutor of cursive handwriting and composition at La Mesa Middle School, Mr. Tishler received a Rose Award for volunteer excellence.
James Velde
Retired Chicago attorney James A. Velde died June 8 at age 100 in Lake Forest Hospital. A 1930 graduate of Harvard Law School, he was president of the Chicago Bar Association in 1970.
After a year with the Legal Aid Bureau of United Charities, Mr. Velde joined a Chicago firm and helped draft proposed Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that were adopted in 1938.
In 1942, he joined Gardner, Carton & Douglas as a partner in appeals and antitrust matters after practicing in the city corporation counsel's appeals division.
Thomas Weber
Retired attorney Thomas E. F. Weber, a resident of Wilmette, died June 16 of pancreatic failure. A graduate of the Brooklyn Law School, he practiced municipal public finance from 1967 to 1993.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Fleming Weber, a partner in Katten Muchin Rosenman, Chicago.
Larry Wolfson
Chicago attorney Larry Marshall Wolfson died in June at age 57 of colon cancer. He was a partner in Shaw, Gussis, Fishman, Glantz, Wolfson & Tobin.
A 1974 cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Wolfson previously practiced with Jenner & Block. A member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, he lectured on bankruptcy issues for the ISBA Law Ed Series.
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