Mystic Shrine

Calvin DeWeerdt '64

11/03/2020

Calvin DeWeerdt, 78, passed away on Nov. 3, 2020, following a brief illness. Cal was born in Clinton, Iowa, and called Rockford home for more than 55 years. Following graduation from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, he was General Manager at Cudahy Packing Company for many years and transitioned to a decades-long real estate career, which included serving as past president of the Home Builders Association of the Greater Rockford Area.

William A. Stanford '65

10/31/2020

William A. Stanford '65

April 20, 1943 - October 31, 2020

Bill was born in Centralia, Illinois, then moved around the state during childhood due to his father's profession. For college, he chose the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he won an R.O.T.C. scholarship that gave him a Navy Commission as well as his Economics degree, with honors, in 1965.

William D. Phillips '49

08/25/2020

William “Bill” Duncan Phillips, 92, loving husband to Ruth, passed away peacefully at his Vienna, VA home of acute congestive heart and kidney failure on August 26, 2020. Bill was born in Springfield, IL, October 24, 1927, to William Wesley and Vineta Childs Phillips. He graduated from Springfield High School in 1945, where he ran track. He graduated from the University of Illinois with Honors in Economics in 1949. While at Illinois he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Phil Yenerich '64

03/29/2020

Phil Yenerich ’64 passed away on March 29, 2020.

Phil was from Mendota and studied Industrial Design at Illinois. He was active in both Star Course and The Illio in his first two years. In his senior year, he served as our chapter president.

Phil received a BFA in Industrial Design and worked in large corporations as a designer. While at IBM, he received 20 patents for his work.

 

Bruce Wayne Wettman ‘70

03/13/2020

Judge Bruce Wettman, 71, of Houston, TX, passed away Friday, March 13, 2020 at Memorial Hermann Hospital. Bruce Wayne Wettman was born in Springfield, Illinois on June 5, 1948 to Betty and Wayne Wettman. Bruce was a gifted athlete, playing quarterback and point guard for Champaign High School. Though offered multiple athletic scholarships by smaller schools, he opted to fulfill his dream and proceeded to make the University of Illinois basketball team as a freshman walk-on. 

Key Charles Pittman '57

12/26/2019

Key Charles "Charlie" Pittman '57

Key Charles "Charlie" Pittman, 84, of Springfield, died at 10:57 a.m. on Thursday, December 26, 2019, at Lewis Memorial Christian Village.

Charlie was born on July 26, 1935, in Ashland, IL, the son of Kenneth and Dorothy (Ogle) Pittman.

Joshua Bowler '97

07/28/2019

Joshua Thomas Bowler of Glen Ellyn, IL, passed peacefully from this earth in the early hours of Sunday, July 28th, 2019, at age 44. 

Josh attended Glenbard West High School and the University of Illinois. He was loved by many far and wide. Cubs games and pretty ladies were his pastimes, and he was well known for orchestrating party buses and filling other people's social calendars. 

John "Jack" Christiansen '49

08/16/2017

John "Jack" Christiansen '49

Passed away on 2017-08-16

John Valdemar (“Jack”) Christiansen was a long time resident of Bainbridge Island and died after a brief illness on August 16 at age 89. He was born on September 28, 1927, in Chicago to Christian Valdemar and Louise Linderoth Christiansen.

Ramon E Dale '50

01/21/2017

Ramon E Dale '50  7/71926 - 1/21/2017  The following is from the Sonoma Index-Tribune. 

Ramon "Gene" Dale passed away in Corte Madera, CA. Gene Dale, a long-time resident of San Francisco, Sonoma and Marin died January 21 at the age of 90. 

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