Obituaries

Marian S. Hempel, 88

Services have been scheduled for Palatine resident Marian S. Hempel.

Visitation for Marian S. Hempel will be held at , 201 N. Northwest Highway, Palatine, on Thursday, Jan. 5, from 4 to 8 p.m.

A funeral service will be on Friday, Jan. 6, at St. Paul United Church of Christ, 144 E. Palatine Road, Palatine, at 11 a.m., with visitation prior from 10 to 11 a.m. Interment will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Arlington Heights.

Marian was born on Jan. 25, 1923, in Benld, Ill., the daughter of the late Simeon and Anna (nee Hatlovich) Sabat, and passed away Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at her daughter, Mary, and son-in-law's in Hoffman Estates. Marian graduated in 1947 from Evangelical Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis, Mo. as an R.N. and from the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill., with a bachelor's degree in health.

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She then went on to work as a hospital nurse, an industrial nurse, and finally, prior to her retirement. working for Community School District 15 of Palatine as a school nurse. She was the beloved wife of 61 years of Rudolf M. Hempel; loving mother of Mary (Alan) Theile, Barbara Greene and David (Laura) Hempel; and cherished grandmother of Jonathan, Lauren and Eric Theile, Katherine, Andrew, William and Jennifer Hempel.

In lieu of flowers, memorials would be appreciated for the American Lung Association , in Memory of Marian S. Hempel, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004, 202-785-3355 or online at www.lungusa.org/donate.

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