Epilogue

M. Denny Hassakis, the son of ISBA Third Vice President Mark D. Hassakis and Janet Strunk Hassakis of Mt. Vernon, died Aug. 10 in Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago.

He was 23 years old and grandson of the late Demetri Hassakis, founder of the firm of Hassakis & Hassakis.

The Hassakis family has expressed its sincere gratitude for the tremendous outpouring of cards and calls at this difficult time in their lives.

Memorials may be contributed to the Illinois Bar Foundation for youth programs in Southern Illinois.

Retired Cook County jurist Ellis Edmund Reid III, who died last month, was a man in motion before he became a man of motions.

Prior to his distinguished 48-year presence within the bench and bar, he was a Chicago Transit Authority bus driver and ticket agent, a railroad cook and waiter, and a taxi driver.

Mr. Reid died Aug. 7 at age 73 of brain cancer in his home in the Beverly neighborhood. He had been a member since 1985 of the board of trustees of Bethel A.M.E. Church, where services were held Aug. 11.

A founding member of the Illinois Judicial Council, made up primarily of African American jurists, and its chairperson in 1990-91, he frequently chaired its annual meetings in Chicago.

Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1959 after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Reid practiced with McCoy, Ming & Leighton for five years, and for 13 years was a partner in McCoy, Ming & Black.

During that period, he became a consultant to the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity Legal Services Program, and a hearing officer for the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission.

Mr. Reid also was general counsel to locals of the United Auto Workers and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and represented the National Organization of Minority Architects and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

In 1977, he established his own litigation firm, Ellis E. Reid & Associates, and practiced corporate, labor and real estate law until his appointment in 1985 to the circuit court.

Elected to the court in 1988, he was presiding judge of the 1st Municipal District from 1990 to 1994, and served in the Chancery Division for the next six years. He was a member of the ISBA Assembly from 1990 to 1993.

After his retention in 2000, Mr. Reid was appointed to an Appellate Court vacancy in the 1st District and was presiding judge in the 4th Division when he retired last year. He was of counsel to Neal & Leroy.

Mr. Reid served for 11 years on the Illinois Judges Association board, and was president of the Cook County Bar Association from 1970 to 1972. He was a co-founder of the Cook County Bar Foundation and the Dickerson House Trust Fund.

He received a Civil Rights Award and the Kenneth E. Wilson Memorial Award from the Cook County Bar, and the C. Francis Stradford Award from the Cook County state's attorney.

Mr. Reid served in the Army before law school and retired as a captain in the Army Reserves in 1969.

Retired probate attorney Richard G. Bodenstab died in August at age 88. A 1950 graduate of the Valparaiso University Law School, he practiced in Chicago until 2000.

Retired Cook County associate judge Eugene Callahan Campion, a former captain in the Chicago Fire Department, died Aug. 11 at age 77 of diabetes and renal failure at St. Francis Hospital, Blue Island.

A 1973 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law who served in the Army Combat Engineers during the Korean War, Mr. Campion became a Cook County assistant public defender in 1975 and was supervisor of the Felony Division.

He was appointed to the bench in 1980 and served in the 4th Municipal District until 2000.

Chicago attorney Stephen Richard Chesler, a resident of Elizabeth, died there on July 30 at age 67. He was of counsel to Arnstein & Lehr.

A 1966 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Chesler was an assistant Cook County public defender before entering private practice.

Law firms in which he practiced previously include Pearlman & Hecht, Hecht, Chesler & Weiss, Gottlieb & Schwartz, Schwartz & Freeman, and Michael Best & Friedrich.

Chicago attorney Kevin Patrick Connor, a family law practitioner who became deputy director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, died Aug. 22 at age 55 in his home of melanoma.

A 1981 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law with a neighborhood practice for several years, Mr. Connor joined the state department four years ago to oversee personnel and administrative services and to help low-income families get health care coverage and home energy assistance.

A story-teller who took classes at Second City, he once acted in a Chicago Park District stage production.

Paul A. Downing of Antioch, a retired attorney and financial institution executive, died Aug. 7 at age 86 of heart failure in the Vista Medical Center East, Waukegan.

A 1950 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law who had a master's degree in business administration from Harvard, Mr. Downing grew up in a Rockford orphanage and served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

He became general counsel to Uptown Federal Savings and Loan in Chicago and moved to Glenview, and he was senior vice president when he left in 1982.

A year later, Mr. Downing was appointed Illinois Commissioner of Savings and Loan Associations and helped rewrite the Savings and Loan Act before he resigned in 1987.

Chicago attorney Charmaine Elizabeth Dwyer, an Oak Park resident, died in August at age 48. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1984, she practiced in employment discrimination.

Retired Cook County judge Paul Francis Gerrity, former presiding judge of the 6th Municipal District, died Aug. 12 at age 80 of prostate cancer in his Homewood residence.

A 1953 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law after Army Air Corps service at the end of World War II, Mr. Gerrity moved to Calumet City and was elected an alderman in 1959.

He also was appointed police magistrate, which led to his 1964 appointment as an associate judge. He was elected to the circuit court in 1973 and subsequently chosen to preside in the new Markham courthouse.

After retiring from the bench in 1987, Mr. Gerrity practiced in Lansing.

Chicago attorney Tyree Lamont Givens, who was a law clerk to Magistrate Judge Marie G. Valdez of U.S. District Court, died July 25 at age 29 as a result of an eight-story fall in the atrium of the Macy's store on State Street. The medical examiner described it as a suicide.

A 2004 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Givens also had been an assistant Illinois attorney general.

Retired East Moline attorney Roy Harold Glockhoff of Rock Island, a 1937 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, died July 27 at age 95 in Trinity Medical Center.

Mr. Glockhoff's practice included serving as East Moline city attorney, village attorney for Carbon Cliff and Colona, and attorney for fire protection districts in rural East Moline, Cordova, Hillsdale and Campbell's Island, and the Greater Metropolitan Housing Authority.

He also helped organize the Community Savings and Loan Association and the Illini Hospital District and served both for several years.

Belleville attorney Marvin W. Goldenhersh died in July at age 86 in Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis. A 1942 graduate of the Washington University Law School, he was a partner in Goldenhersh & Goldenhersh and former assistant St. Clair County state's attorney.

His partners included a brother, former Illinois Supreme Court justice Joseph Goldenhersh; a son, Del A. Goldenhersh, and a grandson, Benjamin F. Goldenhersh.

Elmhurst attorney Roger S. Gorman Jr. died in August at age 94. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1938.

Retired Chicago attorney Walter Phelps Loomis Jr., a Barrington resident, died Sept. 17 at age 79. A 1952 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he served in the Coast Guard during World War II and with the Air Force in the Korean War.

Mr. Loomis joined Seyfarth Shaw in 1952 and was a senior partner when he retired in 2000.

Former Chicago attorney Chester F. Mitchell Jr. died in August. A 1948 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

Former Chicago attorney and health insurance executive Peter William Nauert died Aug. 19 at age 64 of cancer in his Santa Fe home. He was a member of the New Mexico Film and Media Council.

A 1969 graduate of the George Washington University Law School, Mr. Nauert practiced law briefly before joining Pioneer Life Insurance Co. of Illinois, which his father had founded.

He was chairman of Pioneer Financial Services from 1981 until 1997, when it was purchased by Conseco Inc, and was chief executive of the Ceres Group Inc. from 1998 to 2002.

Mr. Nauert founded Insurance Capital Management Inc. in 2002 and became chief executive of Access Plans USA when it merged with ICM in January.

Retired 17th Circuit judge John Walker Nielsen of Rockford died Aug. 8 at age 76 after a second stroke. A 1960 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, he started as an assistant Winnebago County state's attorney.

Mr. Nielsen was appointed Rockford city attorney in 1965 and also practiced with Anderson & Nordquist. He became an associate judge in 1971 and subsequently was appointed to the circuit court. He retired in 1995.

Mr. Nielsen served on the Rockford Park District Foundation board and volunteered at Rockford Memorial Hospital.

Retired corporate executive Sidney H. Paige, a graduate of Harvard Law School, died Aug. 7 at age 82 in Charlotte, N.C. He was a Navy navigator in the Atlantic during World War II.

A former Lake Forest resident, Mr. Paige was an alderman for three terms, a board member of Lake Forest Hospital and the Police and Fire Commission, and an adjunct professor of business at Lake Forest College.

He joined the AB Dick Co. in 1970 as vice president of personnel, and held the same position later with Illinois Tool Works. After retiring, he was with Hardy Freeman & Associates in Chicago before moving to Hilton Head.

Retired Chicago attorney Frank Albert Reichelderfer, a former partner in Wilson & McIlvaine, died Aug. 19 at age 88 in Plymouth Harbor Nursing Home, Sarasota, Fla.

A 1943 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, along with his future wife, Catherine Aaron, Mr. Reichelderfer practiced commercial real estate and helped develop several shopping centers.

He participated in writing Illinois condominium law and was involved in conversion of the John Hancock Center. He also was attorney for the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust before it went public.

On vacations and in retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Reichelderfer traveled the globe to catalog more than 5,000 species of birds in locations such as Thailand, Peru and Kenya.

Survivors include his wife and a daughter, Ann Reichelderfer, an attorney with Stevens & Lee, Princeton, N.J.

Granite City attorney Randall E. Robert-son, for whom a park is named on the former site of Webster School, died Aug. 16 at age 87 in his home. A 1947 graduate of the St. Louis University Law School, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

Mr. Robertson was a founding partner in Lueders, Robertson & Konzen, where a son, R. Eric Robertson, and grandson, Ryan E. Robertson, also practice.

An assistant Illinois attorney general from 1953 to 1961 and a special assistant for utility regulation from 1970 to 1984, Mr. Robertson also served on the Illinois State Ethics Committee.

He drafted legislation to create the Tri-City Regional Port District Act and was its general counsel from 1960 to 1994, and was instrumental in establishing a local school district. He also was chief legal counsel for the referendum and litigation that resulted in the merger of Nameoki to Granite City.

General counsel to the Granite City Park District from 1949 to 1994 and campaign chair for the Tri Cities Community Chest, he was named the Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year.

Ira E. Rubin of Pauker & Rubin, Chicago, died Aug. 12 at age 75 of heart failure. He was a 1955 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law.

Thomas Fenton Rutherford, former partner in the Rockford firm of Crosby, Rutherford & Gilbert, died Aug. 1. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1965, he also was senior legal editor in the Commerce Clearing House tax department in Chicago.

Lansing attorney John F. Sager of Sager & Associates, a resident of Merrillville, Ind., died Aug. 12 at age 62. He was a 1976 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Chicago attorney Robert Marc Schneider of Baker, Miller, Markoff & Krasny died Aug. 6 at age 53 in his home. He was a 1981 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.

Retired Chicago attorney and certified public accountant Charles Lawrence Schuber died April 10 at age 86 in Woodlands, Texas. He was a former resident of Glenview and Wilmette.

A 1950 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Schuber served on a Navy amphibious command ship in the Pacific during World War II. He was employed by National Address Plate Co.

Retired Paris attorney James Caleb Stanfield, a past president of the Edgar County Bar Association, died July 21 at age 83 in the Paris Healthcare Center.

A 1948 graduate of the Washington and Lee University Law School, Mr. Stanfield was a Navy photographer's mate during World War II. He was an assistant Illinois attorney general from 1952 to 1954 and an Illinois Commerce Commission hearing officer from 1954 to 1960.

During his years of practice in Paris, Mr. Stanfield was associated with Harold Wilson, Lawrence B. Moore, Steven L. Garst and Karen L. Burkybile.

He served on the Paris Public Library board, was general counsel and director of the Edgar County Bank and Trust Co., and was vice president of the Nelson Title Co.

A life trustee of the American Legion post, he was former treasurer of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America.

Retired 11th Circuit judge Wayne Carlyle Townley Jr. of Normal, a past president of the McLean County Bar Association, died Aug. 11 at age 78 in his home.

A 1952 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, Mr. Townley was an Air Force judge advocate for a year before joining the Bloomington practice of his father, Wayne Carlyle Townley, who chaired the city's centennial celebration in 1950.

Elected McLean County state's attorney in 1956 and 1960, the younger Townley became an associate judge in 1962 and was elected to the circuit court in 1970. He retired in 1992.

He served on the Illinois Commission on Children from 1972 to 1977 and was vice chair of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission from 1977 to 1982. He twice chaired the executive committee of the Illinois Judicial Conference.

Mr. Townley was past president of Friends of Milner Library and a certified mediator and arbitrator for the circuit court.

Chicago attorney Seymour Velk of Seymour Velk & Associates died Sept. 4 at age 85. A 1949 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, he was a Navy aviator during World War II.

Mr. Velk was an assistant Illinois attorney general, assistant Cook County state's attorney and probate judge before entering private practice in 1961.

Retired Chicago attorney Morrison Waud, a former managing partner in Gardner, Carton & Douglas, died Aug. 14 at age 96 in the Balmoral Center at Lake Forest Place. A Lake Forest resident for many years, he was mayor from 1957 to 1960.

A 1935 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mr. Waud was an Army Air Corps major and legal contract officer during World War II. He received the Legion of Merit.

A member of many corporate and foundation boards, he served on the executive committee of the U.S. Golf Association and officiated at several tournaments. He was a lifetime board member of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Chicago Crime Commission.

Springfield attorney Donald E. West-brook died Aug. 11 at age 76 in his home. He was a 1959 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.

Retired corporate attorney Robert Maurice Zimmerman, formerly with Zenith Radio Corp. in Glenview, died in August at age 73. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1963.