Anthony "Tony" Cutrano, beloved husband of Linda, nee Reule; loving father of Chance; dear son of Trudy (the late Dr. Thomas Reiter and Salvatore Cutrano) Reiter; loving brother of Dawn (Larry) Kjeldsen, Trudy (Sam) Scola, Joe (Gaylena) and Sam.
Founder of Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial, member of Toys for Tots and A.B.A.T.E. and co-founder of Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run.
Vistiation Thursday, 3 to 9 p.m. at Lack & Sons Funeral Home, 9236 S. Roberts Rd. (8000 W.), Hickory Hills. Service Friday, 12 noon at the funeral home.
Tony also served our country through the United States Navy.
Interment private.
Published in Chicago Tribune on May 29, 2012
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Palos Heights founder of Memorial Wall motorcycle ride, killed in Grundy County crash.
The Palos Heights co-founder of the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run and one of the founders of a memorial wall dedicated to military personnel killed in the Middle East conflicts died Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in Grundy County, officials said.
Anthony R. Cutrano, 52, died Sunday afternoon of multiple injuries he sustained in the crash near Seneca, according to Grundy County Coroner John Callahan.
The crash happened at about 3 p.m. on Route 6, about two-tenths of a mile north of Bluff Road. The area is known as Holderman Hill, Callahan said in a statement.
According to a preliminary investigation, Cutrano was driving northeast when he went into an included curve and lost control of his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
The motorcycle came into contact with the guardrail on the east side of the road, Callahan said, and traveled about 300 feet along the guardrail before Cutrano was thrown off the bike.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Cutrano was not wearing a helmet, according to Callahan.
According to the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial Website, Cutrano was a co-founder of the organization which helped build the wall in Marseilles. Officials remembered Cutrano's contributions and wrote about his death on the Website.
"Tony did so much and gave so much and he will be missed by so many people. This has been a shock and more will follow. May God bless you and keep you Tony. Rest in peace with all the fallen whom you loved so much," according to the Website.
In a 2006 Chicago Tribune story about the memorial wall built in 2004, Cutrano said the idea for the memorial, which he helped build with his friend Jerry Kuczera of Chicago, was born out of patriotic anger after they saw a protester on television defacing the American flag.
The wall and an annual motorcycle run to the memorial scheduled for next June honors the thousands of military personnel who have been killed in the Middle East conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We looked at one another and asked, 'Is this how we want our guys dying over there to be remembered?' " Cutrano said at the time. "We knew we had to do something. That's when we decided to build a wall."
Published: Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2012
Founder of Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial, member of Toys for Tots and A.B.A.T.E. and co-founder of Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run.
Vistiation Thursday, 3 to 9 p.m. at Lack & Sons Funeral Home, 9236 S. Roberts Rd. (8000 W.), Hickory Hills. Service Friday, 12 noon at the funeral home.
Tony also served our country through the United States Navy.
Interment private.
Published in Chicago Tribune on May 29, 2012
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Palos Heights founder of Memorial Wall motorcycle ride, killed in Grundy County crash.
The Palos Heights co-founder of the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run and one of the founders of a memorial wall dedicated to military personnel killed in the Middle East conflicts died Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in Grundy County, officials said.
Anthony R. Cutrano, 52, died Sunday afternoon of multiple injuries he sustained in the crash near Seneca, according to Grundy County Coroner John Callahan.
The crash happened at about 3 p.m. on Route 6, about two-tenths of a mile north of Bluff Road. The area is known as Holderman Hill, Callahan said in a statement.
According to a preliminary investigation, Cutrano was driving northeast when he went into an included curve and lost control of his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
The motorcycle came into contact with the guardrail on the east side of the road, Callahan said, and traveled about 300 feet along the guardrail before Cutrano was thrown off the bike.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Cutrano was not wearing a helmet, according to Callahan.
According to the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial Website, Cutrano was a co-founder of the organization which helped build the wall in Marseilles. Officials remembered Cutrano's contributions and wrote about his death on the Website.
"Tony did so much and gave so much and he will be missed by so many people. This has been a shock and more will follow. May God bless you and keep you Tony. Rest in peace with all the fallen whom you loved so much," according to the Website.
In a 2006 Chicago Tribune story about the memorial wall built in 2004, Cutrano said the idea for the memorial, which he helped build with his friend Jerry Kuczera of Chicago, was born out of patriotic anger after they saw a protester on television defacing the American flag.
The wall and an annual motorcycle run to the memorial scheduled for next June honors the thousands of military personnel who have been killed in the Middle East conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We looked at one another and asked, 'Is this how we want our guys dying over there to be remembered?' " Cutrano said at the time. "We knew we had to do something. That's when we decided to build a wall."
Published: Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2012
Anthony "Tony" Cutrano, beloved husband of Linda, nee Reule; loving father of Chance; dear son of Trudy (the late Dr. Thomas Reiter and Salvatore Cutrano) Reiter; loving brother of Dawn (Larry) Kjeldsen, Trudy (Sam) Scola, Joe (Gaylena) and Sam.
Founder of Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial, member of Toys for Tots and A.B.A.T.E. and co-founder of Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run.
Vistiation Thursday, 3 to 9 p.m. at Lack & Sons Funeral Home, 9236 S. Roberts Rd. (8000 W.), Hickory Hills. Service Friday, 12 noon at the funeral home.
Tony also served our country through the United States Navy.
Interment private.
Published in Chicago Tribune on May 29, 2012
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Palos Heights founder of Memorial Wall motorcycle ride, killed in Grundy County crash.
The Palos Heights co-founder of the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run and one of the founders of a memorial wall dedicated to military personnel killed in the Middle East conflicts died Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in Grundy County, officials said.
Anthony R. Cutrano, 52, died Sunday afternoon of multiple injuries he sustained in the crash near Seneca, according to Grundy County Coroner John Callahan.
The crash happened at about 3 p.m. on Route 6, about two-tenths of a mile north of Bluff Road. The area is known as Holderman Hill, Callahan said in a statement.
According to a preliminary investigation, Cutrano was driving northeast when he went into an included curve and lost control of his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
The motorcycle came into contact with the guardrail on the east side of the road, Callahan said, and traveled about 300 feet along the guardrail before Cutrano was thrown off the bike.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Cutrano was not wearing a helmet, according to Callahan.
According to the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial Website, Cutrano was a co-founder of the organization which helped build the wall in Marseilles. Officials remembered Cutrano's contributions and wrote about his death on the Website.
"Tony did so much and gave so much and he will be missed by so many people. This has been a shock and more will follow. May God bless you and keep you Tony. Rest in peace with all the fallen whom you loved so much," according to the Website.
In a 2006 Chicago Tribune story about the memorial wall built in 2004, Cutrano said the idea for the memorial, which he helped build with his friend Jerry Kuczera of Chicago, was born out of patriotic anger after they saw a protester on television defacing the American flag.
The wall and an annual motorcycle run to the memorial scheduled for next June honors the thousands of military personnel who have been killed in the Middle East conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We looked at one another and asked, 'Is this how we want our guys dying over there to be remembered?' " Cutrano said at the time. "We knew we had to do something. That's when we decided to build a wall."
Published: Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2012
Founder of Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial, member of Toys for Tots and A.B.A.T.E. and co-founder of Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run.
Vistiation Thursday, 3 to 9 p.m. at Lack & Sons Funeral Home, 9236 S. Roberts Rd. (8000 W.), Hickory Hills. Service Friday, 12 noon at the funeral home.
Tony also served our country through the United States Navy.
Interment private.
Published in Chicago Tribune on May 29, 2012
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Palos Heights founder of Memorial Wall motorcycle ride, killed in Grundy County crash.
The Palos Heights co-founder of the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run and one of the founders of a memorial wall dedicated to military personnel killed in the Middle East conflicts died Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in Grundy County, officials said.
Anthony R. Cutrano, 52, died Sunday afternoon of multiple injuries he sustained in the crash near Seneca, according to Grundy County Coroner John Callahan.
The crash happened at about 3 p.m. on Route 6, about two-tenths of a mile north of Bluff Road. The area is known as Holderman Hill, Callahan said in a statement.
According to a preliminary investigation, Cutrano was driving northeast when he went into an included curve and lost control of his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
The motorcycle came into contact with the guardrail on the east side of the road, Callahan said, and traveled about 300 feet along the guardrail before Cutrano was thrown off the bike.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Cutrano was not wearing a helmet, according to Callahan.
According to the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom Run Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial Website, Cutrano was a co-founder of the organization which helped build the wall in Marseilles. Officials remembered Cutrano's contributions and wrote about his death on the Website.
"Tony did so much and gave so much and he will be missed by so many people. This has been a shock and more will follow. May God bless you and keep you Tony. Rest in peace with all the fallen whom you loved so much," according to the Website.
In a 2006 Chicago Tribune story about the memorial wall built in 2004, Cutrano said the idea for the memorial, which he helped build with his friend Jerry Kuczera of Chicago, was born out of patriotic anger after they saw a protester on television defacing the American flag.
The wall and an annual motorcycle run to the memorial scheduled for next June honors the thousands of military personnel who have been killed in the Middle East conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We looked at one another and asked, 'Is this how we want our guys dying over there to be remembered?' " Cutrano said at the time. "We knew we had to do something. That's when we decided to build a wall."
Published: Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2012
