Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

 

 SBT 1/15/1987

 

Lillian E. Vernasco

February 11, 1917 - January 14, 1987

 

Lillian E. Vernasco, 69, of Wood Dale IL, formerly of Mishawaka, died about 5pm Wednesday in the Bensenville Health Care Home, Bensenville IL, after an illness. Mrs. Vernasco retired in 1981 from the Marshall Field & Co in Chicago, after 35 years of service.

 

she was born February 11, 1917, in Elkhart.  On January 6, 1945, in Chicago, as Lillian Dean; she married Neil Vernasco.  He survives with two sisters, Edna Burke of North Palm Beach FL and Betty Kelba of San Bernardino CA.

 

Services will be at 10am Saturday at St Bavo's Catholic Church.  Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.

 

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm Friday at Hahn's DeVos Funeral Home, where a Christian prayer service will be held at 8pm.