Park Ridge attorney David J. Gibbons, a retired partner in the Chicago firm of Chadwell & Kayser, died April 12 at age 73 of multiple sclerosis in Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago.
A 1954 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law, Mr. Gibbons served for two years in the Marine Corps Judge Advocate General's Office at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He returned to Chicago and joined the Chadwell firm, eventually heading its civil litigation division. He retired in 1989.
A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and former member of the Chicago Bar Association Board of managers, Mr. Gibbons chaired the Park Ridge Zoning Board of Appeals.
Virgil Jones
Virgil M. Jones of Wheeler, a retired Kentucky attorney, died March 21 at age 91 in the Effingham Health and Rehabilitation Center.
A graduate of the Jefferson School of Law in Louisville, Ky., Mr. Jones handled land contracts for the Army Corps of Engineers until 1944, when he returned to Wheeler to raise turkeys on the family farm.
Daniel Kennedy
Joliet attorney Daniel L. Kennedy died April 9 at age 70 in Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, of a brain injury suffered in an automobile accident in March. He was a partner in Daniel L. Kennedy & Associates with his son, Daniel L. Kennedy Jr.
A 1956 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Kennedy served for three years in the Air Force Judge Advocate Corps in Great Lakes Falls, Mont., before starting the Joliet firm.
He also served as an assistant Will County state's attorney and a special assistant Illinois attorney general, and was a founding board member of Joliet Junior College from 1967 to 1980. He was vice president of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Joliet Diocese.
Richard Michal
Retired Chicago attorney Richard Walter Michal died recently at age 84. Admitted to the Illinois bar in 1947, he had served in the Army during World War II as a major.
Survivors include a son, Jon A. Michal of Michal Legal Services, Chicago.
Thomas O'Bryan
Retired Chicago and Oak Park attorney Thomas Roland O'Bryan Sr. died recently at age 68. He was a 1960 graduate of the Loyola University School of Law.
William Papke
Glen Ellyn attorney William L. Papke Sr. died March 14 in his home at age 80. A captain in the Army Air Corps who flew 130 combat missions during World War II, he was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1952.
Tracy Donner Reckmeyer
Milwaukee, Wis., attorney Tracy Donner Reckmeyer, a former associate at Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, died April 14 at age 39 of cancer.
A 1988 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, she was with Keck, Mahin until 1996 and with Flaherty & Jacobson in Chicago until 1998, when she relocated to Milwaukee and became associate counsel for HK Systems.
Survivors include her father, Milwaukee attorney Kenneth Donner, and her husband, former Chicago attorney Victor R. Reckmeyer II.
Arthur Rosenblum
Retired Cook County associate judge Arthur Rosenblum died April 12 at age 86 of respiratory failure in a Sarasota, Fla., hospital.
A 1940 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law, Mr. Rosenblum served in the Army as a sergeant during World War II. He practiced with Marcus & Corn and Weinrob & Feldman before forming Rosenblum, Lipkick & Joseph and Rosenblum & Associates.
Appointed to the bench in 1983, Mr. Rosenblum served in Criminal Housing Court, Juvenile Court and Marriage Court before retiring to Florida.
Survivors include a nephew, Lawrence Jay Weiner of Scariano, Himes & Petrarca, Chicago, a member of the ISBA Assembly and past chair of the Education Law Section Council.
Lester Shapiro
Retired Chicago attorney Lester Shapiro died recently at age 82. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1942.
Charles Stein
Retired Chicago attorney Charles D. Stein died April 18 at age 80 in California. A 1947 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he had served in the Army as a combat infantry lieutenant in Europe during World War II.
Mr. Stein also served in the Counter Intelligence Corps and participated in the postwar de-nazification program until 1946.
Joining the Chicago firm of Gottlieb & Schwartz in 1948, he became managing partner and a special master for Judge James B. Parsons of U.S. District Court for four years. He later was trial counsel to Katten, Muchin & Zavis.
Mr. Stein moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and formed the firm of Stein, Berman & Blanchard. He was general counsel, vice chair and secretary of Carpetland USA.
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