Peter Foote

1933 - 2015

Peter Foote obituary, 1933-2015, Chicago, IL

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Peter Foote Obituary

Age 82, of Chicago, passed away at home, after a struggle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was the former Director of Communications and press secretary for the Archdiocese of Chicago, & served as Director of the Calumet Area Industrial Commission until retiring. He attended St. Ignatius College Prep & Loyola University and served in the Army in Okinawa, Japan during the Korean War. Peter was preceded in death by his beloved wife Elizabeth Anne (nee Glynn); parents, Peter & Helen; siblings, Edmund & Angela; brothers-in-law, Thomas (Nannette) & William Glynn; and sister-in-law, Mary Quinn. Loving father to Peter James (Anna Rentmeesters), John, Mary Elizabeth (Michael) Fasano, Anne (Patrick) Devane, Catherine Marie & Loretta (Timothy) Casey; fond grandfather to Michael, Meghan, Maria, Peter, Elizabeth & J.P.; uncle to many; sisters Mary Helen (William) Sheahan, Ann Jane (the late Ronald) Axium, Irene Mary, Rosemary, Laura (the late Stephen) Meyer & Sarah Therese (the late George) Sparks; brothers-in-law Neil (Joyce) Glynn & Brian (Marybeth) Glynn; sister-in-law Jeanne (Thomas) Stevens. Visitation Sun, Aug 30th, 3PM-8PM. Funeral, Mon 9:15 AM from Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, www.blakelamboaklawn.com 4727 West 103rd St, Oak Lawn to St. Barnabas Church, Mass 10am, 10134 S. Longwood Dr, Chicago. Info: 847-256-5700.

Published by Chicago Tribune from Aug. 29 to Aug. 30, 2015.
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Very sorry endarterectomy of Peters passing. Can you please send me the name of the book he wrote in about the late 60 s about the neighborhood of Grand Crossing? Thank you. [email protected]

Thomas Vincent Faragoi

July 2, 2021

Please accept my belated condolences, as I just learned of Peter's passing. I got to know Peter in the early 1980s when I was the religion editor at the Chicago Tribune and he was serving as a spokesman for Cardinal Cody, a job that included some interesting challenges. Peter handled those challenges with grace and a wry wit. May the memories of his life and faith be a steady source of consolation.

Bruce Buursma

July 21, 2018

Thank you to all who responded here and in many other forums. Your prayers and support have provided much comfort to our family in the months following Dad's death. His life was one of love, faith and action and the benefits of his life and his gifts will live on in our lives and the lives of many others for many years.

Peter James Foote

April 8, 2016

God bless you and keep you at this time. You are in our prayers
Regina Vorbach-Boegel

Regina Vorbach-Boegel

September 4, 2015

My heartfelt sympathy to the family. Peter was a great help to me and some of my students at Washington High School 20 years ago.
Brian McCann

September 1, 2015

Uncle Peter will be missed so much in my life. He has been one of the few and incredibly great persons I have known. I will always remember you fondly- uncle Peter!

Ayna Ovezova

August 31, 2015

Mr. Foote was very kind caring and friendly . My prayers go out to each and everyone of the family. Take care my thoughts are with u all. Beth Deiters Piescinski.

Beth Piescinski (Deiters)

August 30, 2015

Anne, please accept our sincerest sympathies on the loss of your father.
Tom and Lillian.

Thomas Lyons

August 30, 2015

i AM SORRY TO HEAR THIS HE WILL BE MISSED, MY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY
BILL DEITERS

August 30, 2015

My deepest sympathy to you Mary and your family. Your father will be in my thoughts and prayers.

Theresa Gottfried

August 30, 2015

What a remarkable kind man. Wishing the family peace to bring comfort, courage to face the days ahead, and loving memories to hold in your hearts.

I last saw Peter at my mother's funeral in 2013 in Elkhart, Indiana. What a thoughtful man to travel there to support his cousin's family.

Love,
Julie Delks Campbell (Merry Harris Delk's daughter)

Julie Campbell

August 30, 2015

A very touching story of your father's life, Peter. I never knew that he was in the Selma march. What a fine man

August 29, 2015

I feel very privledged to Know Peter jr. and can't helped but be warmed by His Fathers admirable and ideal life of service , in the love and light of the Holy Spirit, May we all be blessed to follow his example of service and care for his fellow men and the betterment of all things good. What a tremendous inspiration in the Life of PETER John Foote. who I am sure is smiling big down on all of us now , reveling in the rewards of a life excellently lived <3 Mark Pfaff Springhill College 1980

mark pfaff

August 29, 2015

I was on the board of directors when Peter was the Executive Director of the Calumet Area Industrial Commission and was always impressed by his grasp of the issues as well as the fact that he was a kind and gentle man. May he rest in peace.

Al Raffin

August 29, 2015

So sorry to hear about Peter's passing. He was a consummate professional with awesome communication skills. He will be missed.

Ted Stalnos

August 29, 2015

Peter saw more in me than I saw in myself. I was truly blessed to have him as a friend for so many years. May he now rest in God's warm embrace for all of eternity. I'll miss you Peter.

Frank R. Ardito, Jr.

August 28, 2015

Peter was a great man and mentor to us and all the Beverly Writers' Group. What an imagination!! He once wrote a magnificent essay about a Medieval-age war waged by parts of speech and punctuation marks--commas against semicolons; metaphors against similies. Someday we--and he--deserve to see it on the "big screen."
Spiritually, we have no doubt that Peter was whisked immediately through the Gates of Heaven by his namesake, St Peter himself. As we used to sing around Lake Michigan bonfires in the 50's:

Peter, if you get to Heaven before we do
Just poke a hole and pull us through.

Love, Carolyn and Tom Trinley

carolyn & tom trinley

August 27, 2015

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