Mcavoy, Kenneth H., Sr.
appeared in Glenview Announcements, 30 Aug 2001, p. 136
Description
- Media Type
- Genealogical Resource
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Obituaries
- Notes
- Spouse: Annette McAvoy (nee Durand)
Survived by: His wife, Annette; two sons, Kenneth Jr. (Alice) and james (Joanne); a daughter, Barbara (Peter) Mulcahy-Deuel; eight grandchildren, Patrick (Dana), Kathy (Christopher) Johnson, Anne Marie (Ed) Rice, Erin (Steve) Glassman, Cortney and Casey Mulcahy, and Michael, Robert and RoseAnne; seven great-grandchildren, Hannah, Abigail, Sara, Tyler, Ryan, Emma and Lauren; a brother, Robert (Charlene)
Age 84; 43-year resident of Glenview; top union business agent; son of a union plumber, grew up in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood; graduate of Calumet H.S.; window trimmer for Walgreens drugstores in 1937 and active in Window Trimmers Local 41; during WWII served as staff sergeant for engineering company that built a fuel pipeline across France and into Germany, landed at Normandy four days after D-Day, earned four battle stars; business agent of Local 41 in 1947 and local 17 in 1957; after opening of McCormick Place in 1961, negotiated contracts for Teamsters and carpenters union contracts; elected president of IL State Council of Upholsterers International in 1968, vice president at large for the general executive board of Upholsterers International in 1982; retired in 1991; preceded in death by his sister, Mary Margaret Davis
Cemetery: All Saints Mausoleum, Des Plaines - Date of Publication
- 30 Aug 2001
- Date Of Event
- August 23, 2001
- Last Name(s)
-
Mcavoy
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Glenview Public LibraryEmail:genealogy@glenviewpl.org
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