Epilogue

Retired Chicago trial lawyer Arthur H. “Buzz” Barton Jr., who earned several medals for Army Air Corps service in Europe during World War II, died May 7 at age 84 in his Glenview home after several strokes.

A 1951 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Barton had been commissioned a second lieutenant in 1942 and assigned as a navigator-bombardier in England. He flew 70 missions, including two in which he was wounded.

His decorations included the Distin-guished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with two silver and two bronze oak leaf clusters, the European Theater Medal with two battle stars, the American Theater and Liberty Medals, and two Purple Hearts.

Before his discharge in June 1945, Mr. Barton turned down an opportunity to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor for heading a secret volunteer mission, which he later learned involved dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

After law school, Mr. Barton formed the personal injury and workers' compensation law practice of Arthur H. Barton & Associates. He was honored in 2001 as an ISBA Senior Counsellor.

News of the recent death of Chicago attorney Robert William Bergstrom on June 4 at age 87 was received at presstime. A fuller notice will be published in the July issue of the ISBA Bar News.

A 1940 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Bergstrom was among the staunchest advocates of an appointive system of selecting judges. His 30-year summary was published in 2001 by the American Judicature Society. He was secretary of the Chicago Bar Association during the 1970 Constitutional Convention.

A past president of the Union League Club of Chicago, Mr. Bergstrom was a recipient of its Distinguished Public Service Award.

Retired Chicago attorney Zedrick T. Braden Jr. died May 4 at age 78. A 1955 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, he was a partner in Braden, Hall, Barnes & Moss.

Survivors include a son, Chicago attorney Zedrick T. Braden III, and a brother, retired Cook County judge Everette A. Braden.

Former Michigan attorney Andrews J. Burrows Jr. of Woodridge, a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School who was never admitted to the Illinois bar, died May 22 at age 82.

Mr. Burrows was an urban planning consultant in Chicago before opening an outdoors products store, Trout and Grouse, in Wilmette.

Olympia Fields attorney Charles Guy Dalton died May 21 at age 79 of Parkinson's disease in St. James Hospital and Health Center, Chicago Heights.

A 1952 graduate of The John Marshall Law School who had served in the Navy during World War II, Mr. Dalton worked for Chicago Title and Trust during Law school and rose to senior vice president before retiring in 1991.

He chaired the Regional Transportation Authority finance committee and was president of the South Suburban Mass Transit Authority for more than 10 years each.

Mr. Dalton was a past president of the Hazel Crest School District and a former member of the Homewood Zoning Board.

Frank L. DeLeo of Clarendon Hills, a 1971 graduate of the University of Denver Law School who was never admitted to the Illinois bar, died recently at age 64.

He was an attorney for World Book and United Equitable Insurance in Chicago, and later a stockbroker at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Bank One before joining Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Retired Chicago attorney Antone L. Donna died May 30 at age 70 in his Black River Falls, Wis., home. He was a 1962 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Mr. Donna was a partner in Donna, Gelman, Schuller & Gershon until 1984. He owned and operated the Night Saver Inn at Lacrosse.

Retired Paxton attorney Sidney Harold Dilks died May 8 at age 99 in Heartland Health Care. He was a 1931 graduate of the St. Louis University College of Law.

Mr. Dilks practice in Paxton from 1932 until his retirement in 1990, except for service with the Army Signal Corps in the South Pacific during World War II. He was Ford County state's attorney from 1932 to 1936 and a past president of the Paxton Service Club.

Retired Chicago attorney Stanley Knox Feinberg died in May at age 90 in La Jolla, Calif. The son of former judge Michael Feinberg, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1938.

Retired Chicago and San Francisco attorney Donald Flynn died May 19 at age 71 of stomach cancer in a California hospital. A graduate of the Stanford University Law School, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1961.

Mr. Flynn practiced international tax law in Chicago before opening the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie in 1970 and becoming its co-managing partner. In the 1980s, he was a founder of Flynn & Steinberg.

He also founded Flynn Industries and had holdings in nurseries, restaurant and real estate in the Pacific Northwest. Frequently in Argentina, he was trying to establish a charitable organization to build homes for low-income people.

Retired corporate attorney George Boyd Foy, a Barrington resident, died May 11 at age 84 in Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village.

An Army Air Corps bomber pilot during World War II, Mr. Foy received two Purple Hearts for service in the South Pacific. He graduated in 1949 from the DePaul University College of Law and later received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Foy joined the United Airlines law department in 1951 and rose to vice president of flight administrative services before retiring in 1981.

He was a past president of the Barrington school board, and a village trustee from 1985 to 1989.

Retired Chicago trial lawyer John Williams Gilligan Sr. of Glen Ellyn died May 30 at age 86. He was a 1951 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law.

Mr. Gilligan had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a bomber pilot who flew 71 missions in Europe and Africa and earned 29 medals, and also served as a judge advocate.

A former partner in Peterson & Ross, Mr. Gilligan was a founder of the defense litigation firm of Crooks & Gilligan. He was of counsel to Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess from 1988 to 1990.

Survivors include a son, John W, Gilligan III of Stellato & Schwartz, Chicago.

Retired Chicago and Skokie personal injury attorney Leon S. Gillin, formerly of Highland Park, died May 20 at age 77 in Blowing Rock, N.C. He was a 1953 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

Chicago attorney Allen Marvin Gordon died in May at age 79. A 1960 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was an attorney for the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board.

Thomas Williams Heenan, a retired partner in Chapman and Cutler, died May 2 at age 74 in his Chicago home. He was a 1961 graduate of Harvard Law School.

Huntley attorney Ronald Leo Hildebrand, formerly of Barrington Hills, died May 20 at age 70 after a heart attack in his home.

A 1960 graduate of the Valparaiso University Law School, Mr. Hildebrand worked for Chicago Title and Trust in Chicago until 1988, when he retired as a senior construction underwriter and began a solo practice in real estate law and title searches.

Kankakee attorney Thomas Richard Judd died May 4 at age 65 in his home. He was a 1969 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.

Mr. Judd was a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1964 to 1972 and served as Kankakee city attorney for 15 years. He later worked for the National Association of Attorneys General and retired in 2005 from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mr. Judd was a past president of the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra and a volunteer with the Legal Aid Society.

Chicago attorney William Anthony Karnezis, who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1978, died recently at age 55. He served as supreme legal consul to the Pan-Arcadian Federation of America.

Retired Chicago attorney Dennis Peter Kyros died in May at age 66. He was a 1965 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

Winnetka attorney Robert Joseph Ley, who practiced for almost 60 years in Chicago and Buffalo, died in May at age 87. He was a 1946 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

A Navy officer with Pacific amphibious forces during World War II, Mr. Ley attained the rank of lieutenant commander. He participated in battles of the Solomon Islands, Kwajalein, New Guinea, the Marianas, Leyte and Luzon.

Retired Chicago attorney and certified public accountant Emory Spencer Naylor, former chair and managing partner in McDermott, Will & Emery, died May 17 at age 88 in his home.

A 1946 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Naylor was a Navy lieutenant commander during World War II. He practice with the McDermott firm from 1946 until he became of counsel in 1981.

He was a member of the Chicago Bar Association board of managers from 1972 to 1974, and he chaired the CBA Federal Tax Committee in 1968-69.

Glen Ellyn attorney John Edward Noel, vice chair of the DuPage County Board, died April 28 at age 59 of cancer in his home. He was a 1974 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law.

Mr. Noel was an assistant Illinois attorney general who served as chief of the Antitrust Division in 1978-79. He was with Chadwell & Kayser in Chicago from 1980 to 1987.

From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Noel was vice president and associate general counsel of Waste Management in Oak Brook, and a partner in Michael, Best & Freidrich from 1994 to 1995, when he formed Noel & Associates, a commercial litigation firm.

A member of the DuPage County fi-nance, public transit, stormwater, technology and transportation committees, he was named Governmental Leader of the Year in 2005 by the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference.

Peoria attorney Janice Margarete Powell died May 18 at age 48 in her home. A 1983 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, she practiced in Chicago before joining Howard & Howard in Peoria.

Retired Chicago attorney James Ed-ward Riley died May 9 at age 86 in his Arlington Heights home. After Navy service during World War II, he was a high school English teacher for several years. He retired from the Navy Reserve in 1979 as a commander.

Mr. Riley attended night classes at the DePaul University College of Law while teaching and received his law degree in 1963. He was an assistant Illinois attorney general in the Consumer Fraud Division before becoming an attorney for the Chicago Board of Education.

Later in private practice of workers' compensation law, Mr. Noel retired in 1995.

Geneva attorney Alan John Rusin, a former corporate tax attorney died June 1 at age 67. A graduate of the Cornell University Law School, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1962.

Mr. Rusin chaired the Chicago Bar As-sociation Juvenile Law Committee while an attorney for the GATX Corp. in Chicago. He also practiced at the Carborundum Corp. in New York.

The City of Highland Park will dedicate a bench in memory of former city attorney Berle L. Schwartz at 11 a.m. Friday, June 16, in the statue garden east of the city hall rose garden. A reception will follow.

Notice of the death of Mr. Schwartz on Feb. 4, 2005, was published in the March 2005 issue of the ISBA Bar News.

Chicago attorney John Michael Semple died recently at age 69. He was a 1963 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law.

Mr. Semple was a former executive in the Chicago offices of Pioneer National Title Insurance, TICOR Title and Chicago Title Insurance.

Richard H. Stroemer, a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law who was not admitted to the Illinois bar, died May 7 at age 78.

Chicago attorney Fred Sudak, a re-tired Cook County judge, died May 18 at age 75 in his Streeterville neighborhood home of heart failure. He was a 1954 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

Beginning his legal career in the city corporation counsel's office, Mr. Sudak was involved in such major projects as acquisition of air rights for commercial highrises and the conversion of O'Hare International Airport from a military facility.

Later in private practice for many years, Mr. Sudak was a member of an Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission hearing board from 1974 to 1987. He served on the Cook County Circuit Court from September 1987 to December 1988.

Retired Illinois and Wisconsin attorney Joseph E. Tansill died May 12 at age 83 of pneumonia. Formerly of Mt. Prospect, he had homes in Eagle River, Wis., and Bradenton, Fla.

After combat in the Pacific during World War II, Mr. Tansill was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1953. A lawyer and certified public accountant, he was a senior partner in Coopers & Lybrand before entering private practice.

Mr. Tansill was of counsel to Lello & Wittmeyer in Mt. Prospect until 1993. He was a past president of the Sierra Club of Chicago.

William P. Thompson, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School who was not admitted to the Illinois bar, died April 27 at age 87 of renal failure in the Plymouth Place Retirement Community, LaGrange Park.

After Army service during World War II that included prosecutions in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Mr. Thompson practiced with a Wichita, Kan., firm and became a name partner.

When he retired in 1984, he was elected associate secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace. He was a past president of organizations that promoted a unified Presbyterian Church.

Chicago attorney Daniel Wilkus Weil died May 30 at age 65 in his Lincoln Park home. A 1965 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he held several legal positions in federal, state, city and county government.

He was an assistant U.S. attorney, an assistant Cook County state's attorney, a commissioner of the city Buildings De-partment, a legal advisor to Gov. James Thompson, and warden of the Cook County Department of Corrections.

Also was a partner in Winston & Strawn for 10 years, Mr. Weil had been of counsel to Chapman and Cutler since 1994. He was former vice chair of the Royal Crown Bottling Co.

He was chair of the Wendy Will Case Cancer Fund and the Chicago chapter of the London School of Economics, and a board member of the Foreign Policy Research Center.

Retired Centralia attorney Fred L. Wham Jr. died March 13 at age 95 in his home. A 1933 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, he practiced in Mattoon, Chicago and St. Louis before opening an office in Centralia in 1939.

A Navy lieutenant in the South Pacific during World War II, Mr. Wham was a past president of the Centralia Grade School Board and a former assistant Illinois attorney general. He retired in 1982.

Survivors include a son, Rockford attorney Fred L. Wham III.