Obituaries

Bob Mork, age 58, died May 29 at his home surrounded by his loving family following a battle with cancer. All funeral services are private. A private family burial service was held at Wheaton Cemetery.

Bob was born in Chicago, and spent his early childhood years there and in California. He attended Wheaton Central High School and played as captain of the football team. He graduated from Wheaton College, where he met his wife of 34 years, Lorraine. He went on to the John Marshall Law School to earn his law degree. He demonstrated his skill as an attorney early by serving as a Law Clerk for Illinois Supreme Court Justice Howard Ryan.

A resident of Wheaton for 45 years, Bob's career was marked by public service to the community. He served as an attorney and advisor to the DuPage County Forest Preserve District working for the stewardship of local conservation efforts. As a Wheaton City Councilman from 1993 to 2005, Bob served his hometown working to revitalize the downtown area. Serving as the DuPage County Public Guardian, Bob cared for the well-being of the disabled and most vulnerable. In each of his positions of responsibility, he assumed and pursued an ethic of good government worthy of the public trust.

Lawrence Halley Hunt, Jr., age 68, passed away on Friday, April 27 at Evanston Hospital. He was born in Chicago in 1943. He was a current resident of Glenview and a former resident of Winnetka.

He received his B.A. cum laude from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1965), Certificat, Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris, France (1966), and his J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law (1969)

Mr. Hunt joined the law firm of Sidley, Austin LLP (Chicago) in 1970, and was made partner in 1975. He became a member of the firm’s Executive Committee in 1985. He started his own legal consulting firm upon retirement in 2007 called Hunt Consulting LLP. He served as head of the firm’s Derivatives, Financial Services and Litigation practice group. He represented brokerage firms, financial and professional services firms, domestic and foreign banks, multinational industrial corporations, grain companies and cooperatives. He was a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, a Fellow of the Foundation of the American Bar Association, and a member of the ABA Subcommittee on Futures and Options.

Ray H. Garrison, age 89, attorney, author, lecturer, public servant, story-teller and beloved husband and uncle, died at Advocate South Suburban Hospital on May 23, 2012. He was a long-time resident of Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Mr. Garrison was born August 6, 1922 in Allen County Kentucky to Emmett Washington Garrison and Ollie Irene Keen. He was the youngest of eight children, all deceased. He married Eunice Ann Bolz October 7, 1961 in Decatur, Illinois. Ray attended schools in Allen County Kentucky graduating from high school in 1940. He graduated with a B.A. degree from Western Kentucky University, a M.A. degree from the University of Kentucky, and a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago.

He was licensed to practice law in Kentucky and Illinois and admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Customs Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. His biographical sketch appears in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He served as Special Assistant, Special Attorney, and Assistant Regional Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and as a trial lawyer for the US Government for several years, before becoming the general tax attorney for Navistar International Corporation formerly International Harvester Company.

Richard W. Hall, attorney, a long-time resident of Park Forest, passed away on Monday, May 14, 2012. He was born on June 3, 1923 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Hubert and Almeada (Eardley) Hall.

He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona in 1945, and during the late 1940s, Mr. Hall worked as an analytical chemist for the USDA, a control chemist for Lever Brothers in Whiting, IN, and William E. Thompson Company, in Los Angeles, an instructor in Biochemistry Lab Technique at the University of Utah, and a research chemist in insulin production at Armour Pharmaceuticals in Chicago. He received several patents in chemistry and was involved in the development of the compound 2-4-D.

Mr. Hall attended John Marshall Law School at night and received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1951. As he began his law practice, he also taught Chemistry at the Chicago Technical College from 1951-55. Mr. Hall served as the village prosecutor in Park Forest from 1961 to 1987.