Obituaries
Wilmette Obituary: Margaret Herguth, 79
Herguth was a New Trier graduate and active in St. Francis Xavier parish, where she was proud to be the first female usher.
The following obituary is from Donnellan Family Funeral Services:
Margaret Herguth (nee Silsbee), 79, a long-time resident of Wilmette, most recently of Glenview, died peacefully Friday night in nursing/hospice care, after being diagnosed last year with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Born in Michigan, as a child her family moved around for her father’s job, making stops in New York and Maryland before settling in the Chicago area. She attended New Trier High School, Mount Mary College and Northwestern University, where she earned a master’s in journalism.
Marge worked for what is now the Pioneer Press chain of newspapers as a feature writer, then at the Chicago Daily News. There she met her future husband, Robert J. Herguth, a reporter and columnist.
Marge was long active in her parish, St. Francis Xavier in Wilmette, where she was proud to be the first female usher.
While raising her family and after, she continued to write, sometimes travel articles for newspapers, sometimes short stories. She authored a book about North Dakota, where she had a lot of family along the Montana border, and was active in the Off Campus Writers’ Workshop.
She had a dear circle of friends there and from different periods of her life, dating to college and beyond.
Her family appreciates the care shown to Marge by the staff at Bethany Terrace Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her parents Charles and Rose. Aside from her husband, Marge is survived by children Amy, Robert (Sue) and Jennifer (Brad); grandchildren Mila, Annika, Eli, Ava, Otto, Matthew, Aidan, Luke and Lauren; and honorary daughter Coralie (Ceaser), and their children Nunzzio and Dante.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to Misericordia, 6300 North Ridge, Chicago, IL 60660.
Info: 847-675-1990 or www.donnellanfuneral.com
Services
Visitation
Monday April 14, 2014, 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM at Donnellan Family Funeral Services, 10045 Skokie Boulevard, Skokie, Illinois 60077
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Funeral Mass
Tuesday April 15, 2014, 12:00 PM at Saint Francis Xavier Church, 912 Linden Avenue (9th & Linden), Wilmette, Illinois 60091
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Burial
Tuesday April 15, 2014 at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Lee & Dundee Roads, Northbrook, Illinois 60062
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