OBITUARIES:
(published
Feb. 2, 2012)
Dr. Michael
Joseph Campbell
Dr. Michael
Joseph Campbell, died Jan. 30, 2012, at home.
Dr. Campbell, 99, was born in 1912 in Ireland.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Cathleen Campbell, nee
Corkery; his children, Nancy (Terrence) Sullivan, Barbara
(Dr. Thomas) Kwiatt, Dr. Daniel (Dr. Katherine) Campbell,
Mary (Leonard) Carnevale, and Patricia Schuster; his
grandchildren, Catherine (Jason) Davenport, Brian (Kelly)
and Christopher Sullivan, Dr. James (Katherine), Dr. Michael
(Dr. Kathleen) and Anne Kwiatt, Dr. Joseph (Laura),
Elizabeth and Mary Kate Campbell, Nathan and Amy Rose
Carnevale, and Thomas and Laura Schuster; and his
great-grandchildren, Terrence, Charles, Jack, Caitlin,
Charles, Claire, Patrick and Michael.
Visitation is from 3 to 8 p.m. today, Thursday, Feb. 2, at Adams-Winterfield
& Sullivan Funeral Home, 4343 Main St.. Downers Grove.
The funeral will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at the funeral
home, proceeding to St. Isaac Jogues Church, 306 W. Fourth
Street, Hinsdale, for an 11 a.m. Mass.
Interment is at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Little Company of Mary
Foundation, Department of Pediatrics, 2800 W. 95th St.,
Evergreen Park, IL 60805; or SASED STARS Program, Attn:
Sarah Ellsworth, 1590 Fairfield Ave., Lombard, IL 60148.
Dr. Gene A.
Harvey
Dr. Gene A.
Harvey died Jan. 28, 2012, at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital.
Dr. Harvey, 77, was born in Harvey in 1934.
He is survived by his wife, Mary, nee Stocks; his children, Cherie
(David) Watt, Cindy (Al) Ruginis, Cathy (Steve) Harvey-Slawkin
and Connie (Dana) Moses; his grandchildren, Will, Amanda,
Heather, Bryan, Joshua, Zachary and Katie; and his sisters,
Connie Rubin and Carol Gabel.
A funeral was held Feb. 1 at the Hinsdale Seventh-day Adventist
Church.
Interment was at Clarendon Hills Cemetery in Darien.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hinsdale Adventist
Academy Student Aid, payable to Hinsdale Seventh Day
Adventist Church, 201 N. Oak St., Hinsdale, IL 60521.
Gibbons Elliston Funeral Home in Hinsdale handled the arrangements.
Mary B. Imrie-McGowan
Mary B. Imrie-McGowan
died Jan. 29, 2012, in San Francisco, a son beside her, the
morning after most of her family gathered to visit. She had
homes in Oak Brook and Hinsdale for nearly 40 years, and
healed hundreds of patients around the country as a
Christian Science practitioner for most of that time, almost
to the week of her passing.
Her middle son, Hinsdale Central and Harvard standout John Imrie,
was posthumously inducted into the Hinsdale Central
Foundation Hall of Fame in 2007. Her second marriage also
made local news, as it was to a World War II boyfriend.
Robert Lee McGowan, of Alexandria, Va., also widowed, had
neglected to get formally engaged when he deployed as a
PT-boat captain in the South Pacific a half-century earlier.
“It don’t mean a thing if I ain’t got that ring,” she later
explained. She married Army Air Corps Lt. Walter Curtis
Imrie in 1945 and they enjoyed nearly 60 years together
until his death in 2004. McGowan found Mary 18 months later,
with help from an Internet-savvy poker partner, and six
months after that they eloped, enjoying eight months as
newlyweds before McGowan died.
Mary McIntosh Brookings was born in 1922 and raised in Alexandria,
Va., in an antebellum house on 100 acres. Her mother died
when she was 3. She was adept at tennis (played into her
80s), piano, riding and track. She set the U.S. high school
broad jump record in 1936 with a leap of 16 feet, notable
because she was only an eighth grader. “I had a tail wind,”
she recently confessed.
She graduated from Madeira School and spent a gap-year at Walnut
Hill School before entering Mount Holyoke College. She
graduated in Northwestern University’s Class of 1944 in
sociology. She was in the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
In WW II, with all three brothers in the Navy, she worked with the
Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Before marrying Walter, she
was art director at Washington’s Barney Neighborhood House,
a venerable shelter for the poor, the disabled and the
elderly. Her three sons were born in Washington: Walter
Curtis Imrie Jr. of Buena Vista, Colo.; John Brookings Imrie,
who died in 1969; and Gordon MacDonald Imrie of San
Francisco.
The family spent 10 child-rearing years in Atlanta, moving to Oak
Brook in 1963. Soon after, when people began calling her to
pray with them on health, financial and family problems,
Mary Imrie officially became a Christian Science
practitioner, a kind of Bible-based prayer-coach. Her
healing record was such that she was invited to give many
four-hour addresses on her practice to groups around the
U.S. over her 40-year career. Her sons entered Northwestern,
Harvard and Stanford, as husband Walter shifted careers from
aircraft sales, to manufacturing, to management of 24
housing units the couple built. He also served as an Oak
Brook village trustee.
In 1963-4, Mary Imrie was pivotal in the Illinois presidential
nomination campaign of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, run by her
college roommate, Violet Dawson of LaGrange Park. Together
with a nearly “all-girl” team, they rallied enough voters
that Smith came in second to Goldwater with a quarter of the
vote and earned the first nominating convention votes in
history cast for a woman by a major party.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hinsdale was her spiritual base
in Illinois. She served in several leadership positions
there, including lay reader. She also enjoyed the Hinsdale
Tennis Association, the Hinsdale Garden Club and others, and
was a Daughter of the American Revolution. She sometimes
skied with Walter in Colorado, traveled to 49 states and
Europe, South America, and the Mideast Holy Lands; and was
intensely interested in politics, music, and family history.
Mrs. Imrie-McGowan is also survived by California grandsons John
Brookings Imrie II, Parker Ludlow Imrie and Milo McIntosh
Imrie.
The family has arranged a Facebook celebration of her long life.
Postings may be seen and made at
http://on.fb.me/x6sMw8.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, 275 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA
02115; or the Animal Welfare Institute, 900 Pennsylvania
Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003-2140.
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