August 29, 1937 - August 10, 2023
Agnes Yodelis Essig, 85, of Chicago, passed away unexpectedly on August 10, 2023.
She was a loving mother and grandmother to her sons and grandsons, a supportive aunt to her nieces and nephews, and a warm friend to many. After graduating from Mercy High School and studying in the late 1950s at the School of the Art Institute under LeRoy Neiman and others, Agnes was a commercial fashion artist for a Chicago studio serving major department stores. She later became a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador in the mid-1960s where she founded and ran a preschool in San Salvador. While raising her children in the 1970s and 80s, Agnes earned a bachelor's degree at Northeastern Illinois University and later spent several years as a social worker for Catholic Charities before retirement.
Loving mother to Peter F. Essig and Bill (Karen) Essig, devoted grandmother to Michael and Christopher Essig, and deeply fond of her many nieces and nephews. She is reunited in heaven with her parents, Victor and Constance Yodelis, and her siblings, Dana Harding, Erdvil (Ed) Yodelis and Ozzie Yodelis.
A Memorial Visitation will be held Saturday August 19th at 9 a.m. immediately prior to the Memorial Mass at 10 a.m. at Divine Mercy Parish at Sacred Heart Church, 1077 Tower Road, Winnetka, IL 60093. If you would like to attend the Mass via Livestream, please visit https://www.divinemercynorthshore.org. Interment private at St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery
Agnes Yodelis Essig, 85, of Chicago, passed away unexpectedly on August 10, 2023.
She was a loving mother and grandmother to her sons and grandsons, a supportive aunt to her nieces and nephews, and a warm friend to many. After graduating from Mercy High School and studying in the late 1950s at the School of the Art Institute under LeRoy Neiman and others, Agnes was a commercial fashion artist for a Chicago studio serving major department stores. She later became a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador in the mid-1960s where she founded and ran a preschool in San Salvador. While raising her children in the 1970s and 80s, Agnes earned a bachelor's degree at Northeastern Illinois University and later spent several years as a social worker for Catholic Charities before retirement.
Loving mother to Peter F. Essig and Bill (Karen) Essig, devoted grandmother to Michael and Christopher Essig, and deeply fond of her many nieces and nephews. She is reunited in heaven with her parents, Victor and Constance Yodelis, and her siblings, Dana Harding, Erdvil (Ed) Yodelis and Ozzie Yodelis.
A Memorial Visitation will be held Saturday August 19th at 9 a.m. immediately prior to the Memorial Mass at 10 a.m. at Divine Mercy Parish at Sacred Heart Church, 1077 Tower Road, Winnetka, IL 60093. If you would like to attend the Mass via Livestream, please visit https://www.divinemercynorthshore.org. Interment private at St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery
August 29, 1937 - August 10, 2023
Agnes Yodelis Essig, 85, of Chicago, passed away unexpectedly on August 10, 2023.
She was a loving mother and grandmother to her sons and grandsons, a supportive aunt to her nieces and nephews, and a warm friend to many. After graduating from Mercy High School and studying in the late 1950s at the School of the Art Institute under LeRoy Neiman and others, Agnes was a commercial fashion artist for a Chicago studio serving major department stores. She later became a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador in the mid-1960s where she founded and ran a preschool in San Salvador. While raising her children in the 1970s and 80s, Agnes earned a bachelor's degree at Northeastern Illinois University and later spent several years as a social worker for Catholic Charities before retirement.
Loving mother to Peter F. Essig and Bill (Karen) Essig, devoted grandmother to Michael and Christopher Essig, and deeply fond of her many nieces and nephews. She is reunited in heaven with her parents, Victor and Constance Yodelis, and her siblings, Dana Harding, Erdvil (Ed) Yodelis and Ozzie Yodelis.
A Memorial Visitation will be held Saturday August 19th at 9 a.m. immediately prior to the Memorial Mass at 10 a.m. at Divine Mercy Parish at Sacred Heart Church, 1077 Tower Road, Winnetka, IL 60093. If you would like to attend the Mass via Livestream, please visit https://www.divinemercynorthshore.org. Interment private at St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery
Agnes Yodelis Essig, 85, of Chicago, passed away unexpectedly on August 10, 2023.
She was a loving mother and grandmother to her sons and grandsons, a supportive aunt to her nieces and nephews, and a warm friend to many. After graduating from Mercy High School and studying in the late 1950s at the School of the Art Institute under LeRoy Neiman and others, Agnes was a commercial fashion artist for a Chicago studio serving major department stores. She later became a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador in the mid-1960s where she founded and ran a preschool in San Salvador. While raising her children in the 1970s and 80s, Agnes earned a bachelor's degree at Northeastern Illinois University and later spent several years as a social worker for Catholic Charities before retirement.
Loving mother to Peter F. Essig and Bill (Karen) Essig, devoted grandmother to Michael and Christopher Essig, and deeply fond of her many nieces and nephews. She is reunited in heaven with her parents, Victor and Constance Yodelis, and her siblings, Dana Harding, Erdvil (Ed) Yodelis and Ozzie Yodelis.
A Memorial Visitation will be held Saturday August 19th at 9 a.m. immediately prior to the Memorial Mass at 10 a.m. at Divine Mercy Parish at Sacred Heart Church, 1077 Tower Road, Winnetka, IL 60093. If you would like to attend the Mass via Livestream, please visit https://www.divinemercynorthshore.org. Interment private at St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery
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