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Doug Dussman was a kind, caring, fun-loving person who loved animals and his family, those close to him said. And he had been that way since he was a small boy. "Everybody loved Doug," his younger brother, Luke, said. "He was always laughing, always telling a joke. People enjoyed being around him." Doug was never judgmental, so others found spending time with him a safe space. "If you were with Doug, you were just present with him," Luke said. Doug died in August at age 45...
One of Dr. Andrew Dingwall's students at Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine came to him in a quandary. A sudden family illness necessitated an immediate return home, but the student didn't know how to arrange for his program absence on such short notice. "My dad said to him, 'Don't worry about it, book your flight. I will handle everything,' " relayed Dingwall's daughter, Caitlin Dingwall, from her conversation with the student at her father's memorial service last...
Don't live with regrets. Be nice to people. Do it today, not tomorrow. Don't stop learning. These are some of the tips for living a good life that Tom McCleary passed along to his kids just days before he died March 12 at the age of 63. "He just rattled off all these things about how to get a good life," his wife, Megan McCleary said. "My son had typed them up in his phone in his notes." He shared the advice shortly after learning there was nothing else doctors could do to tre...
Mary Elaine Shouvlin was known by many attributes: witty, stylish, loyal, cat lover, social justice champion. To her childhood best friend in Hinsdale, she was simply "Mares." "We spent all of our summers together," Cyndy Travis said. "She was very smart, always willing to try things and do things." And Mary adored her hometown, maintaining a residence in Hinsdale even as a new love named Raphael Shouvlin meant frequent trips to Florida, where he wanted to retire. She kept...
Peggy Smego lived two lives with her husband, Mark - the one before his 2004 stroke and the one after. And yet both were characterized by Mark's love of family, zest for life and unshakable faith. The two met when Peggy, 23 at the time, was being set up with her roommate's male friend, who brought Mark along to make it a foursome. "It was a blind date gone awry," Peggy said. "It was a funny start. There was like a glow around Mark when I met him." The two were engaged six...
Hinsdale's Steve Foster took a good friend to Wrigley Field last Labor Day to watch his beloved Cubbies. Suddenly a foul ball sailed their way and landed just behind their row. Steve was quick to retrieve it. "Just as quickly he handed the ball to me with a request to give it to the young girl siting across the aisle from us," according to an account by that friend, relayed by Steve's brother Jim at a Nov. 13 memorial service. Jim held back tears as he read how the girl's...
Joanne Smith, president and CEO of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, was a noted physician and the driving force behind the transformation of care delivery in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. But her husband, Rory Repicky, said she still was very much the unassuming, fun-loving girl he met working in a hospital emergency room in Pontiac, Mich., while in college. "Out here, she always went by Mrs. Repicky. Most people didn't even know she was a doc," he said. She...
