Chester L. Anderson, believed to have been in practice the longest among Peoria attorneys, died April 13 just five weeks short of his 95th birthday. He was president of the Peoria County Bar Association in 1957.
A 1930 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Anderson joined the firm of Todd, Morgan, Pendarvis & Arber that year and remained in practice in Peoria for seven decades.
He retired late last year and had been of counsel to Hasselberg, Williams, Grebe & Snodgrass, the successor firm to Goldsworthy & Fifield and Goldsworthy, Fifield & Hasselberg.
Charles Ephraim
Former Chicago and Washington, D.C., attorney Charles Ephraim died May 4 at age 76 in Pompano Beach, Fla. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he was a 1951 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Ephraim received his law degree after service as a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II and additional duty with the Illinois Air National Guard from 1947 to 1950.
An administrative law practitioner for more than 30 years in the District of Columbia, Mr. Ephraim was president of the Transportation Lawyers Association in 1978-79. He retired in 1985 and lived in Texas for 12 years before moving to Florida.
James Good
Retired Chicago corporate and estate planning attorney James W. Good Jr. died May 5 at age 90 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he practiced for 41 years before retiring in the late 1970s.
The son of a congressman from Iowa who served in the cabinet of President Herbert Hoover, Mr. Good lived in Washington, D.C., for several years as a child. He served in the Navy during World War II.
A New Trier Township Republican committeeman for 12 years, Mr. Good served on an Illinois House Reapportionment Committee in 1965.
William Hazard
William R. Hazard of Mason City, a retired lawyer and educator, died in May at age 71. A 1958 summa cum laude graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, he also received a master's degree in 1951 at Illinois State University and a doctorate in education in 1966 at Northwestern University.
Mr. Hazard was a fine arts teacher at Lyons Township High School until 1963, when he became an assistant professor of art at Northern Illinois University. After 35 years, he was appointed emeritus professor of education.
As a lawyer in the private consulting firm of Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, Mr. Hazard provided education consultation to law firms in the evaluation of teachers. A founder of the Mason City Family History-Genealogy Society, he served on the boards of the Mason City Area Library Foundation and Mason City Area Nursing Home.
Mr. Hazard recently received a Community Service Award from the Salt Creek chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution for outstanding achievement in educational, humanitarian, historical and patriotic endeavors.
John Kelsey
Additional information has been received about Greenville attorney John W. Kelsey, whose death April 6 at age 90 was reported in the May 15 issue of the ISBA Bar News.
After receiving a law degree from Northwestern University and a juris doctorate in 1938 from the Chicago Law School, Mr. Kelsey practiced in Chicago for 10 years before serving as president of the Model Glove Co. in Greenville from 1948 to 1955. He also was vice president of W. G. Best Homes from 1950 to 1976.
Mr. Kelsey received the Gerald Turley Memorial Award in 1997 in recognition of his service to the Greenville community. He was past president of the Greater Greenville Development Corp., actively promoting projects that included formation of the Greater Greenville Airport Authority and Kingsbury Park District.
He also taught law courses at Greenville College, where he received his undergraduate degree, and served on the board of directors and alumni board. He received the school's Loyalty Award in 1978.
Survivors include a daughter, Lake Bluff attorney Stephanie K. Rives.
Otto Neumann
Otto C. Neumann, retired board chair of the Barbara Oil Co. in Chicago, died May 6 at age 92 of heart failure in his Winnetka home.
A graduate of the University of Miami Law School, Mr. Neumann practiced in Florida before enlisting in the Army Air Corps, serving for four years during World War II and attaining the rank of major.
His father-in-law asked him to become president of Barbara Oil after the war, and he expanded it into an independent exploration and development company with non-oil investments before retiring in 1997.
Mr. Neumann served several terms as president of the Indian Hill Road Association. A horse racing enthusiast who had his own colors, he was a director of the Detroit Race Course.
Colleen Rooney
Massachusetts attorney Colleen O'Connor Rooney, formerly of Wilmette, died April 12 at age 45 of cancer. She also suffered since birth from cerebral palsy, had leukemia, and lost a leg to bone cancer several years ago.
A graduate of the University of Illinois, Mrs. Rooney received a law degree from Boston College. She had a private appellate practice and was an attorney for the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
Betty Schierhorn
Betty Lou Stevens Schierhorn, a Chicago journalist who received a law degree in 1958 at the DePaul University College of Law, died May 9 at age 78 of lung cancer in her daughter's Wheaton home.
Mrs. Schierhorn, who had a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, worked at the City News Bureau before joining the staff of The National Provisioner, a meat industry magazine. After 37 years, she retired in 1989 as editor-in-chief and vice president.
Paul Schmid
Former Wheaton attorney Paul S. Schmid died April 23 at age 94 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1929, he served in the Navy during World War II.
Roy Schneider
Retired corporate attorney Roy B. Schneider, formerly of Morton Grove and Arlington Heights, died May 6 at age 74 of heart failure in Elkhorn, Wis. He was a resident of Lake Geneva.
A veteran of Army service in Germany during World War II, Mr. Schneider was a tank commander during the Korean War, leaving the Army Reserves in 1957 as a first lieutenant. He was a 1956 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law.
Mr. Schneider was legal counsel to several Chicago-area companies, including Motorola Inc. and Argonne National Laboratory. He joined the Morton Grove firm of Johnson & Colmar in the mid-1960s and later was a partner in Schneider & Graf.
A past president of the Morton Grove Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Schneider retired from practice in 1993. Survivors include a son, Robert R. Schneider, who is a senior tax attorney with BP America Inc. in Chicago
Gerald Sebesta
Gerald Sebesta Jr., who had a law degree but bypassed a legal career to take over his father's business, died May 10 at age 84 of Parkinson's disease in a Sarasota, Fla., nursing home.
A 1942 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Sebesta enlisted in the Army immediately after passing the bar exam. He served with the Tank Corps in the Philippines and as a major was ready for an assault on Japan when World War II ended.
In 1946, Mr. Sebesta's father asked him to become involved in the management of two Berwyn meat markets. He retired in 1978 as owner and operator of the Jerry Sebesta Market and moved from Cicero to Wisconsin and later to Florida.
President of the Cermak Road Business Association in 1959 and 1960, Mr. Sebesta served on the Morton College board.
Justin Simon
Washington, D.C., attorney Justin Daniel Simon, formerly of Wilmette, died April 5 at age 53 of leukemia in Atlanta, Ga. A 1971 summa cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he was the son of Thelma Brook Simon, who was president of the Women'a Bar Association of Illinois in 1956-57.
Mr. Simon practiced in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington before joining the firm of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin and later becoming a partner.
Martin Van Kampen
Tinley Park attorney Martin G. Van Kampen died April 11 at age 61. He was a 1984 graduate of The John Marshall Law School. Survivors include a son, Martin A. Van Kampen, in the Chicago office of the Illinois attorney general.
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