Obituary: Dubuque Telegraph Herald June 27, 2012, p.C2
GALENA, Ill. -- Richard E. Alexander, 87, died Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at his home in Galena, of esophageal cancer.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 28, at Grace Episcopal Church, Galena. Burial will be held at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Miller and Steinke Funeral Home, Galena.
Mr. Alexander established his own international intellectual property law firm in Chicago in the 1960s and was on numerous charitable and community boards. He served in World War II in the Army and was wounded following D-Day outside Metz, France. He received the Purple Heart.
A native of Yellow Springs, Ohio, he attended courses that included engineering and philosophy at University of Dayton and Carnegie Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology). He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1950. After working for several corporations and law firms, he formed his own firm in Chicago and practiced until his retirement in 1994. A few of his long-time clients were Kmart, American Express and Dun and Bradstreet in their world-wide intellectual property interests.
He was a life-time board member of the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, the Hope Foundation, Episcopal Charities and other charitable organizations. He was founding president of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago and belonged to the St. James Episcopal Church in Chicago and Grace Episcopal Church in Galena. He was elected to the Jo Daviess County Board and served for two years.
He wrote a play, which was produced in Galena, about the meaning of life as depicted through conversations between God and famous religious figures.
According to his wife of 35 years, Barbara (Shapiro) Alexander, "Not only was Dick a great advocate for his clients, a loyal friend, loving father and husband, but he had a great joy for life, philosophy, music, religion, travel and literature. Living to age 87 was his demonstration of this joy, because he survived his war injury, atypical polio, a revolution in Argentina, a kidnapping in South Africa, emergency triple bypass surgery, a severe auto accident and several terrible rounds of golf.
His first marriage to Mary Waring Barnes ended in divorce.
Surviving are his wife, Barbara; three daughters, Susan (William) Shipman, Amy Alexander and Jane (William) Beck; his six grandchildren, Andrew Sapien, Elizabeth (Andrew) Lovasz, Sarah Sapien, Emily (Tom) Kean, Mary Beck, Laura Beck and Maxwell Swihart; his two great-grandsons, William Alexander Lovasz and James Peter Lovasz; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Mary Lou Dean.
The family requests no flowers. Donations may be given to Hospice of Dubuque.
GALENA, Ill. -- Richard E. Alexander, 87, died Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at his home in Galena, of esophageal cancer.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 28, at Grace Episcopal Church, Galena. Burial will be held at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Miller and Steinke Funeral Home, Galena.
Mr. Alexander established his own international intellectual property law firm in Chicago in the 1960s and was on numerous charitable and community boards. He served in World War II in the Army and was wounded following D-Day outside Metz, France. He received the Purple Heart.
A native of Yellow Springs, Ohio, he attended courses that included engineering and philosophy at University of Dayton and Carnegie Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology). He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1950. After working for several corporations and law firms, he formed his own firm in Chicago and practiced until his retirement in 1994. A few of his long-time clients were Kmart, American Express and Dun and Bradstreet in their world-wide intellectual property interests.
He was a life-time board member of the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, the Hope Foundation, Episcopal Charities and other charitable organizations. He was founding president of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago and belonged to the St. James Episcopal Church in Chicago and Grace Episcopal Church in Galena. He was elected to the Jo Daviess County Board and served for two years.
He wrote a play, which was produced in Galena, about the meaning of life as depicted through conversations between God and famous religious figures.
According to his wife of 35 years, Barbara (Shapiro) Alexander, "Not only was Dick a great advocate for his clients, a loyal friend, loving father and husband, but he had a great joy for life, philosophy, music, religion, travel and literature. Living to age 87 was his demonstration of this joy, because he survived his war injury, atypical polio, a revolution in Argentina, a kidnapping in South Africa, emergency triple bypass surgery, a severe auto accident and several terrible rounds of golf.
His first marriage to Mary Waring Barnes ended in divorce.
Surviving are his wife, Barbara; three daughters, Susan (William) Shipman, Amy Alexander and Jane (William) Beck; his six grandchildren, Andrew Sapien, Elizabeth (Andrew) Lovasz, Sarah Sapien, Emily (Tom) Kean, Mary Beck, Laura Beck and Maxwell Swihart; his two great-grandsons, William Alexander Lovasz and James Peter Lovasz; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Mary Lou Dean.
The family requests no flowers. Donations may be given to Hospice of Dubuque.
Obituary: Dubuque Telegraph Herald June 27, 2012, p.C2
GALENA, Ill. -- Richard E. Alexander, 87, died Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at his home in Galena, of esophageal cancer.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 28, at Grace Episcopal Church, Galena. Burial will be held at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Miller and Steinke Funeral Home, Galena.
Mr. Alexander established his own international intellectual property law firm in Chicago in the 1960s and was on numerous charitable and community boards. He served in World War II in the Army and was wounded following D-Day outside Metz, France. He received the Purple Heart.
A native of Yellow Springs, Ohio, he attended courses that included engineering and philosophy at University of Dayton and Carnegie Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology). He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1950. After working for several corporations and law firms, he formed his own firm in Chicago and practiced until his retirement in 1994. A few of his long-time clients were Kmart, American Express and Dun and Bradstreet in their world-wide intellectual property interests.
He was a life-time board member of the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, the Hope Foundation, Episcopal Charities and other charitable organizations. He was founding president of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago and belonged to the St. James Episcopal Church in Chicago and Grace Episcopal Church in Galena. He was elected to the Jo Daviess County Board and served for two years.
He wrote a play, which was produced in Galena, about the meaning of life as depicted through conversations between God and famous religious figures.
According to his wife of 35 years, Barbara (Shapiro) Alexander, "Not only was Dick a great advocate for his clients, a loyal friend, loving father and husband, but he had a great joy for life, philosophy, music, religion, travel and literature. Living to age 87 was his demonstration of this joy, because he survived his war injury, atypical polio, a revolution in Argentina, a kidnapping in South Africa, emergency triple bypass surgery, a severe auto accident and several terrible rounds of golf.
His first marriage to Mary Waring Barnes ended in divorce.
Surviving are his wife, Barbara; three daughters, Susan (William) Shipman, Amy Alexander and Jane (William) Beck; his six grandchildren, Andrew Sapien, Elizabeth (Andrew) Lovasz, Sarah Sapien, Emily (Tom) Kean, Mary Beck, Laura Beck and Maxwell Swihart; his two great-grandsons, William Alexander Lovasz and James Peter Lovasz; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Mary Lou Dean.
The family requests no flowers. Donations may be given to Hospice of Dubuque.
GALENA, Ill. -- Richard E. Alexander, 87, died Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at his home in Galena, of esophageal cancer.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 28, at Grace Episcopal Church, Galena. Burial will be held at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Miller and Steinke Funeral Home, Galena.
Mr. Alexander established his own international intellectual property law firm in Chicago in the 1960s and was on numerous charitable and community boards. He served in World War II in the Army and was wounded following D-Day outside Metz, France. He received the Purple Heart.
A native of Yellow Springs, Ohio, he attended courses that included engineering and philosophy at University of Dayton and Carnegie Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology). He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1950. After working for several corporations and law firms, he formed his own firm in Chicago and practiced until his retirement in 1994. A few of his long-time clients were Kmart, American Express and Dun and Bradstreet in their world-wide intellectual property interests.
He was a life-time board member of the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, the Hope Foundation, Episcopal Charities and other charitable organizations. He was founding president of the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago and belonged to the St. James Episcopal Church in Chicago and Grace Episcopal Church in Galena. He was elected to the Jo Daviess County Board and served for two years.
He wrote a play, which was produced in Galena, about the meaning of life as depicted through conversations between God and famous religious figures.
According to his wife of 35 years, Barbara (Shapiro) Alexander, "Not only was Dick a great advocate for his clients, a loyal friend, loving father and husband, but he had a great joy for life, philosophy, music, religion, travel and literature. Living to age 87 was his demonstration of this joy, because he survived his war injury, atypical polio, a revolution in Argentina, a kidnapping in South Africa, emergency triple bypass surgery, a severe auto accident and several terrible rounds of golf.
His first marriage to Mary Waring Barnes ended in divorce.
Surviving are his wife, Barbara; three daughters, Susan (William) Shipman, Amy Alexander and Jane (William) Beck; his six grandchildren, Andrew Sapien, Elizabeth (Andrew) Lovasz, Sarah Sapien, Emily (Tom) Kean, Mary Beck, Laura Beck and Maxwell Swihart; his two great-grandsons, William Alexander Lovasz and James Peter Lovasz; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Mary Lou Dean.
The family requests no flowers. Donations may be given to Hospice of Dubuque.
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