Mr. Carey began his legal career with the Lake County public defender. Returning to Cook County, he handled cases in the Juvenile Division before his assignment to the homicide task force.
Survivors include his wife, Alexandra Stevens Carey, also a public defender in the Felony Trial Division.
David Connolly
Retired Rockford attorney David Connolly died Jan. 8 at age 91 of Alzheimer's disease. A former member of the ISBA Board of Governors, he was president of the Winnebago County Bar Association in 1958.
A 1933 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Mr. Connolly was a lawyer for the Works Progress Administration in Milwaukee before joining the Rockford firm of Lathrop, Lathrop, Brown & Lathrop.
He enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and was a lieutenant in charge of a gun crew on a merchant ship sailing between the United States and Europe during World War II.
A part-time city attorney for several years and an assistant Illinois attorney general from 1949 to 1953, Mr. Connolly remained with the Rockford firm, which became Lathrop, Brown & Connolly, Brown, Connolly & Paddock, and the Connolly-Oliver Law Firm.
Active in the ISBA since 1950, Mr. Connolly served on the Board of Governors from 1967 to 1970 and on the Assembly from 1972 to 1978. He chaired the Special Committees on State Tax Study, on Screening of Judicial Candidates and on Financing of Judicial Campaigns.
Mr. Connolly also chaired the Committee on Judicial Advisory Polls for three years, and served on Committees on Convention and Meetings, Public Relations, Family Law Study, Grievance-Hearing Division, Specialization, Independent Administration of Decedents' Estates, and Federal Judicial and Related Appointments.
For several years beginning in 1971, Mr. Connolly was a hearing officer for the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
John Drost
Chicago attorney John Anton Drost died Jan. 19 at age 82. A partner on Drost & Schmidt, he also was of counsel to Drost, Kivlahan & McMahon in Arlington Heights.
Born in Brno, Czechslovakia (now the Czech Republic), Mr. Drost graduated in 1932 from the Masaryk University Law Faculty. He was a lieutenant judge in the Czech Army Judge Advocate General's Department and a law partner of Alois Prasak, a government official in exile in London.
Mr. Drost's private practice involved representing the interests of Jewish clients, for which he was jailed. He was ordered to report to a labor camp in 1944, but eluded Gestapo agents and went underground.
Returning to Brno after the war, Mr. Drost was pursued by communists after the 1948 coup, but escaped to Austria. There he worked for the Church World Organization, placing refugees in western countries.
Emigrating to the United States with his family, Mr. Drost was an administrator for a Chicago church while attending night classes at The John Marshall Law School. He received his law degree in 1961.
In addition to his law partnership in estates and international probate, he was attorney for the Austrian and German consulate generals in Chicago. He received Austria's Golden Badge of Honor in 1974.
Mr. Drost became a sponsor in 1993 of a continuing legal education exchange program between John Marshall and Masaryk University. He was a past president and life trustee of the Uhlich Children's Home.
Survivors include a son, George T. Drost of the Arlington Heights firm, and a granddaughter, Julie Drost-Hibler, a law student at John Marshall.
Albert Dordan
Streator attorney Albert G. Dordan died Dec. 16 at age 90. A graduate of the University of Detroit Law School, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1947.
A member of the Streator High School board for 28 years, Mr. Dordan was a life member of the Streator Elks Lodge and Streator Eagles Aerie, and a trustee of the St. Clement's Society branch of the First Catholic Slovak Union of America.
Raymond Goldstein
Retired Illinois attorney Raymond L. Goldstein, formerly of Winnetka, died Jan. 9 at age 93 in Singer Island, Fla. A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, he was active in civic affairs in Riviera Beach, Fla..
Louis Lebin
Retired Chicago attorney Louis Leben died Jan. 2 at age 88 in an assisted living center in Lake Mary, Fla. A former Chicago White Sox batboy, he graduated in 1932 from the DePaul University College of Law.
A hearing officer for the Illinois Interstate Commerce Commission from 1942 to 1952, Mr. Lebin was in private practice for 15 years and an assistant attorney general from 1968 to 1987. He was an arbitration hearing officer before retiring from practice in 1997 and moved to Florida.
Allen Lewis
Allen Bernard Lewis of Highland Park died Dec. 20 at age 78. A veteran of military service during World War II and a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he was affiliated with Bache and Co. and Blunt, Ellis and Loewi.
J. Clayton MacDonald
DesPlaines attorney Joshua Clayton MacDonald Jr. died Dec. 12 at age 75 in his Arlington Heights home of cancer and Parkinson's disease. He was a 1953 graduate of The John Marshall Law School.
Mr. MacDonald was a solo practitioner until 1984, when he was joined by a son, Gregory A. McDonald, in MacDonald & MacDonald. He became of counsel to Robinson, Pluymert, Piercey, MacDonald & Amato in 1997.
Clayton MacDonald was attorney for the DesPlaines Park District from 1976 to 1994 and a former member of the DesPlaines Elementary District 62 school board.
Lorraine O'Donnell
Chicago attorney Lorraine Marzano O'Donnell, who practiced only five years but maintained her active registration for six more decades, died Dec. 8 at age 89 in an Oak Lawn hospital.
A 1936 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Mrs. O'Donnell worked for the Legal Aid Bureau of Chicago until 1941, when her first child was born. Her late husband, Edward O'Donnell, also was an attorney.
David Parson
Retired Chicago attorney David Parson died Dec. 13 at age 77 of heart failure. A 1947 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he practiced at Kirkland & Ellis representing newspaper and broadcast media companies.
From 1961 to 1965, Mr. Parson was deputy counsel to Edward R. Murrow at the U.S. Information Agency and Voice of America in Washington, D.C. He returned to private practice with media clients in Chicago.
A former Winnetka resident, Mr. Parson served on the village board for several years. He served for more than 20 years on the board of the Drexel Home for the Aged and chaired the Lawyers Division of the Jewish Federation. He was a member of the WBEZ-FM advisory board.
G. Michael Perry
Retired Chicago patent lawyer and bond broker George Michael Perry, formerly of Northfield, died Dec. 13 at age 54 in a Casper, Wyo., medical center of acute rejection of a transplanted organ.
An industrial engineering graduate who became director of information services for the Chicago Board of Trade in 1972, Mr. Perry attended classes at The John Marshall Law School, graduating in 1977.
After working for Square D Co., Mr. Perry became a member of the Board of Trade in 1981 as an independent broker in the bond pit. He received a heart transplant in 1990, left the bond pit and received a master's degree in intellectual property at John Marshall.
Mr. Perry taught financial planning classes at Loyola University and volunteered as a swimming coach at Northwestern University and the YMCA. He also was founding president of the Northbrook Girls Softball Association
Moving with his family to Wyoming in 1999, he became volunteer state director and softball coach for the Special Olympics.
Maris Rodgon
Former Chicago attorney Maris Monitz Rodgon, a partner in a New York City firm, died Dec. 15 at age 53 in a New York medical center as a result of a perforated colon.
Mrs. Rodgon received master's and doctor's degrees in psychology from the University of Chicago and became an associate professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1972.
Years later, she enrolled in the University of Chicago Law School and graduated in 1983. She was a law clerk for Illinois Supreme Court Justice Seymour Simon for two years before joining Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
In 1995 Mrs. Rodgon joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in New York and became a partner in 1998 in its business and finance practice group. A member of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, she spoke in Poland, Slovenia and the Ukraine. She also helped establish the Heller Jewish Community Center.
Mrs. Rodgon and her husband, Chicago attorney Jack I. Rodgon, had homes in Chicago and New York City.
Marlene Rothbardt
Chicago attorney Marlene Schwartz Rothbardt, a former teacher, died Jan. 2 at age 58 in Evanston Hospital of breast cancer. She was a 1982 graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Mrs. Rothbardt earned master's and doctor's degrees in mathematics and education at Northwestern University and taught for several years. When she became pregnant and was told she would lose her job, she appealed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and won.
The experience attracted her to the study of law, and after graduation she had a private practice in family law and marriage dissolution mediation.
Samuel Smith
Samuel S. Smith of Highland Park, a former justice of the peace, died Dec. 13 at age 94 of pneumonia in a veterans' hospital in North Chicago. He served in the Army in Europe during World War II, owned an insurance firm and served on the Lake County Board for 15 years.
Elected a justice of the peace in 1939, Mr. Smith received an award from the American Bar Association for hearing traffic cases on Saturdays so workers wouldn't have to take time off.
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