Chicago, he had a home in Phoenix.
A 1937 graduate of the Stanford University Law School, Mr. Trautman practiced with a San Francisco firm until World War II, when he was a lawyer for the Navy.
Representing Greyhound after the war, he became vice president and general counsel in 1963, president and chief executive officer in 1966 and board chair in 1969. He moved corporate offices from Chicago to Phoenix in 1971 after engineering the takeover of Armour & Co.
Leigh Trevor
Former Galesburg resident Leigh B. Trevor died Sept. 21 at age 65 of a heart attack while driving from his Cleveland office to his home in Rocky River, Ohio.
A Navy veteran and 1962 graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Trevor practiced with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue for 37 years and was partner in charge of the Cleveland office from 1990 to 1993.
He was past president of the Cleveland Bar Association, past chair of the Ohio Bar Association Corporate Law Committee, and a trustee of the State Troopers of Ohio, the Cleveland University Foundation and the Great Lakes Theater Festival.
James Zacharias
James L. Zacharias of Wilmette, a 1935 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, died Oct. 29 at age 87 of cancer. He practiced for three years with D'Ancona & Pflaum and operated Industrial Arts Corp., a plastics manufacturing company until 1942.
After Army service during World War II, Mr. Zacharias and his brother operated the Precision Plating Co. until his retirement in 1989. They also developed the Dove Bar from a neighborhood business to national prominence and purchase by the Mars Co.
Mr. Zacharias received the Roger Baldwin Award in October from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois for his long service on the board of directors and executive committee and as chair of the advisory council.
He also chaired the Special Bail Project, which helps individuals in Cook County Jail before weekend Bond Court hearings, the Illinois Commission on Children and the John Howard Association. He created the Zacharias Center in Gurnee to help victims of sexual assault.
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