Epilogue

John Loomis Petersen, an associate judge of the 16th Circuit for 17 years who was the son of the late judge John S. Petersen, died Feb. 7 at age 69 of cardiac arrest in his Aurora home.

A 1961 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Petersen practiced criminal law in Aurora until 1982, when he became an associate judge. He retired in 1999.

An advocate of fire prevention and safety, Mr. Petersen was involved in implementation of a 911 system in Aurora and a training program for paramedics. He was an assistant fire chief and paramedic in Sugar Grove and a member of the Illinois Fire Advisory Commission, which he chaired for five years.

Mr. Petersen declined an invitation to become the first administrator of the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration.

Survivors include a son, Aurora attorney Stuart A. Petersen.

Chicago attorney John James Alioto, a past president of the West Suburban Bar Association, died Feb. 8 at age 56. In addition to his own practice, he was of counsel to Abramson & Fox and maintained an office in Milwaukee.

A 1974 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Alioto was an assistant Cook County state's attorney before entering private practice. He headed the West Suburban Bar in 1990.

Mr. Alioto served on the board of the National Italian Golf Tournament for Charities and was a charter member of the Societa di San Giuseppe.

Survivors include a daughter, assistant Cook County state's attorney Marilyn Alioto, who serves on the board of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois.

John S. Bainbridge, who was dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law at the onset of its transition from Lewis University from 1979 to 1981, died Jan. 25 at age 90 in Pennsylvania.

A graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, Mr. Bainbridge helped establish the Touro College Law Center in New York in 1981 and was its dean until 1984. He was on the law school faculties of Wayne State University, Pace University and Widener University.

Retired patent attorney Donald Witte Banner of Chicago and Washington, D.C., died Jan. 29 at age 81 of cancer in his Tucson, Ariz., home. He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on April 19.

A graduate of the University of Detroit Law School who received a master's degree in patent law from The John Marshall Law School, Mr. Banner was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1953. That year, he joined Borg-Warner in Chicago as general patent counsel.

He had served in the Army Air Corps in Europe during World War II. His fighter plane was shot down over Italy, and he was held prisoner in a German war camp for five months in 1945.

In 1978, Mr. Banner received a presidential appointment as U.S. commissioner of patents and trademarks. After a year, he began private practice in Washington and headed the intellectual property program at the George Washington University Law School.

He founded the law firm of Banner & Witcoff, with offices in Washington and Chicago, where a son, Mark Thomas Banner, is a partner.

Northfield attorney Peter Maurice Barron, village prosecutor since 1998, died Feb. 22 at age 58. He was a 1981 honors graduate of The John Marshall Law School.

Mr. Barron was a Highland Park Park District commissioner for six years, a high school board member for three years, secretary of the Highland Park Civil Service Commission for 15 years, and Northbrook village prosecutor for 10 years.

Retired Chicago attorney and certified public accountant Wilson J. Besant died Feb. 23 at age 78 in his North Shore home.

A 1955 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Besant passed the CPA examination in 1957 with a Gold Medal. He was with Arthur Andersen & Co. for 35 years.

Retired Chicago attorney John Robert Blomquist, a former Glenview resident, died Feb. 17 at age 85 of congestive heart failure in Scottsdale, Ariz.

A 1945 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, Mr. Blomquist was an Army Air Corps officer during World War II and a member of the Judge Advocate General Corps in the Pacific.

A former partner in Burditt & Calkins, he played saxophone in a dance band for charity events and was an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Glenview.

Springfield attorney Myron W. Brigman died Feb, 9 at age 63 in Memorial Medical Center. An Army veteran, he was a 1977 cum laude graduate of The John Marshall Law School.

Chief of the collections bureau for the Illinois Department of Health Care and Family Services, formerly the Department of Public Aid, Mr. Brigman was with the Cook County Department of Public Aid until 1970, when he joined the state agency.

Retired Springfield attorney John Roger Chapin died March 1 at age 87 at St. John's Hospital. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1943.

Waukegan attorney Robert James Fox died Feb. 9 at age 61 in his Lake Forest home. A partner in Fox, Lunardi & Zeit, he was the son of the late judge Warren G. Fox

A 1975 graduate of The John Marshall Law School and former assistant Lake County state's attorney, Mr. Fox received the Benedict J. Ori Award in 2004.

Springfield attorney Edward Frederick Chandler Gain Sr. died Feb. 15 at age 65 of injuries suffered when his automobile collided head-on with a Pontiac High School bus near Streator.

Mr. Gain was a 1965 graduate of the Washington University School of Law.

Edward Michael Glazier of Highland Park, a 1937 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, died in February at age 91. A past president of North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, he was a principal in the Glazier Corp., an apparel manufacturer.

Retired Chicago attorney Harry Golter died Feb. 8 at age 81 of prostate cancer at The Jefferson in Arlington, Va. A 1951 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1952, he was a veteran of World War II.

Mr. Golter was a partner in Overton, Marx & Schwartz, which merged with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, and with Hamblet, Oremus & Little.

Retired Chicago attorney John Wing Hughes of Lake Forest died Jan. 27 at age 86 in his Arizona home. He was a partner in the tax and estate planning firm of Hughes & Hughes.

A 1948 graduate of the Virginia Law School, Mr. Hughes was an Army captain in the Pacific during World War II. He received a Bronze Star for action in the Bataan peninsula.

Former chair of Governor Ogilvie's Horse Racing Study Commission, Mr. Hughes was a past president of the Chicago Tumor Institute and a governing life member of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Retired Chicago attorney Louis Jeremiah Keating, a former partner in Kirkland & Ellis, died Feb. 1 at age 76 of a heart attack.

Mr. Keating started working in the firm's mailroom in 1944, graduated in 1952 from the DePaul University College of Law, and managed complex domestic and international business transactions. He was author of the firm's first training program, Kirkland Institute for Corporate Practice.

Retiring in 1991 with Parkinson's disease, Mr. Keating was a member of the Catholic Charities advisory board and author of a guide to help charitable organizations deal with volunteer liability issues.

He received the John Courtney Murray Award from DePaul's Center for Church-State Studies.

Retired Chicago attorney Clark Chapman King Jr., a former partner in Lord, Bissell & Brook, died March 6 at age 76. He was a 1954 graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Army service.

Former Chicago attorney Elizabeth Anne Graham Martin, who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1951 but never registered to practice, died Feb. 10.

An art teacher in two Chicago public schools, she retired in 1980 to Ireland and became a silk batik landscape artist.

Former attorney and author Susan S. Robin McComb of Springfield, formerly of Highland Park, died Feb. 5 at age 50 in her home. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1987, she was a member of the Society of Human Resource Management.

Retired Tuscola attorney Harrison Jones “Budge” McCown Jr. of Villa Grove died Feb. 7 at age 83 in Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago.

A graduate of the University of Florida Law School who was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1948, Mr. McCown was a Marine captain and night fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War. He also was a defense counsel in courts martial.

A partner in Nichols, Jones & McCown, Mr. McCown was Douglas County state's attorney from 1952 to 1968 and Arcola city attorney.

He was a past president of the Tuscola Masonic Lodge and a director of First National Bank and Trust of Illinois and Villa Grove State Bank.

Additional information has been received about Deerfield attorney Maurice James Miller, whose death on Jan. 29 at age 79 was reported in the February issue of the ISBA Bar News.

A 1955 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Mr. Miller had served in the Army Infantry during World War II, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and earning two Purple Hearts.

An auditor for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture before law school, he joined Sidley & Austin in Chicago as an associate and became a partner in tax law and corporate practice.

Mr. Miller retired in 1990 as head of the firm's corporate group.

Retired Chicago corporate attorney Robert Dillingham Mitchell of Evanston, formerly of Winnetka, died Feb. 13 at age 87. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1946 after military service, he was with the Amoco law department for 33 years.

Wheaton attorney David G. Mountcastle, a retired partner in Mountcastle, Kelly & Dyer, died Feb. 23 at age 74. He was a resident of Seminole, Fla. Mr. Mountcastle was a 1961 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and a former Air Force intelligence officer in Germany.

Freeburg attorney Gregory C. Nold died Feb. 5 at age 48 after being stricken during a recreational flag football game.

A 1982 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, Mr. Nold was a partner in Nold & Nold, the firm he established with his late father, Norman L. Nold.

Gregory Nold was Freeburg village attorney since 1992, treasurer of the Freeburg Park District and president of the Freeburg Camber of Commerce.

Peoria attorney Daniel Robert O'Brien died Feb. 22 at age 54. A 1976 graduate of the Washington University School of Law, he began practicing with Lester Berry Smith Ltd.

In 1982 he became a founding partner in Moos, Schmitt & O'Brien.

Monmouth attorney Channing Lee Pratt died in February at age 76 as a result of an automobile accident. Mr. Pratt had been missing since Feb. 18 when his wrecked car was found Feb. 24 in a ditch near Dubuque, Iowa.

A 1954 graduate of the Indiana University School of Law who was admitted to the Indiana bar that year and to the Illinois bar in 1958, Mr. Pratt served on the ISBA Negligence Law Section Council from 1960 to 1963 and was secretary for two years.

A former Warren County state's attorney, he was a partner in Beal, Pratt & Pratt with his wife, Jane Hartley Pratt.

Chicago attorney Michael Thomas Reid, a resident of Deerfield, died Feb. 16 at age 56. He was a partner in Keeley, Kuenn & Reid.

A 1974 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Reid was a prosecutor for several years.

Chicago attorney John Robert Sarnowski Jr. died Feb. 2. He was a 1974 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.

Mascoutah attorney Meryl Thompson Schroeder died Feb. 8 at age 84 after surgery in Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis. He was a partner in Schroeder & Schroeder with a daughter-in-law, Mary T. Schroeder.

After Navy service as a lieutenant in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, Mr. Schroeder graduated in 1949 from the Washington University School of Law and opened a practice with Herbert F. Lill, who died in 1965.

Mr. Schroeder was attorney for the City of Mascoutah, the school board and First National Bank. He was a past president of the Mascoutah Chamber of Commerce and the First Federal Savings Bank.

Mr. Schroeder was instrumental in establishment of the Village of Albers and the Mascoutah Rural Fire and Surface Water Protection Districts.

Springfield attorney Robert Francis Scott died March 7 at age 90 in his home. He was of counsel to Scott & Scott, where his sons Gregory A. Scott and R. Stephen Scott are partners.

A 1947 graduate of the Lincoln College of Law, Robert Scott founded several law firms and served on the Springfield Election Commission.

Survivors include a son-in-law, Bruce A. Beeman of Wolter, Beeman & Lynch, Springfield.

Retired Chicago attorney Theodore R. Sherwin died in March at age 92. A 1937 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he was a partner for many years in Sherwin & Sherwin with his late brother, Julius Sherwin.

Chicago attorney Leo Emmett Smith died Feb. 19 at age 79 in his Evanston home of congestive heart failure after several strokes. He was a 1950 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

After practicing with the Cook County state's attorney and the Northwestern University Traffic Institute, Mr. Smith was a director of the Commercial Law League of America for 20 years and editor of its journal.

He was with the law firm of Howe & Hutton for a5 years before retiring in 2000.

Chicago attorney Alfred J. Solari, head of STC Productions and executive director of the Athenaeum Theatre, died March 9 at age 55 in his Skokie home. He was a 1975 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law.

Mr. Solari founded the theater's annual Dance Chicago festival and provided a venue for experimental performance. He also helped manage the Shubert Theatre, Woodstock Opera House and Civic Opera House.

Mount Sterling attorney Robert Edward Utter died Feb. 9 at age 78 in St. John's Hospital. A 1952 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law who was admitted in 1953, he served in the Army during World War II.

Mr. Utter practiced in Decatur for a year before opening his Mount Sterling Practice. He was Brown County state's attorney from 1956 to 1972.

Bloomingdale attorney John Edwin Waghorne III died in February at age 74. He was a 1960 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

Former East St. Louis and Edwardsville attorney Edward Lee Welch died Jan. 10 at age 77 in his Renton, Wash., home. He was a 1966 graduate of the Washington University School of Law.

Mr. Welch was general counsel of the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, deputy counsel for East St. Louis, and attorney for the school district and Comprehensive Mental Health Center for St. Clair County.

He also served on the National Labor Relations Board for the St. Louis region and was an attorney for Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co.

Chicago attorney Leonard Norton Wenig of the Rogers Park neighborhood died in February at age 77. He was a 1957 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law.