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OBITUARIES By Trevor Jensen Tribune staff reporter Robert E. Hynes was a tax attorney who, as assistant general counsel with the Illinois Department of Revenue, helped put together the apparatus to handle the first income tax. Mr. Hynes, 62, diedFriday, Feb. 16, of a heart attack at his home in Palos Heights, said his sonKevin.

For the last several years, Mr. Hynes had been a partner in the Loop law firm of Lyons Hynes. Though he neverheld a public office, Mr. Hynes had an innate understanding of politics and was a close adviser to his broth- erThomas, a former Cook County assessor and onetime Chicago mayoral his nephew, Illinois Comptroller Daniel Hynes. turned to him for advice on so many subjects, and so did a lot of Thomas Hynes said.

had great political wisdom, which I benefited As an attorney, Mr. Hynes was known for hisknowledge of federal, state and local tax law and the elegance of his legal motions, said his law partnerKe- vin was one of the best writers ever able to both turn a phrase and make dense legal issues comprehensi- ble, said. Mr. Hynes, the son of Irish immigrants, grew up in Gresham neighborhood.He met Legoria McEnery, who lived in the neighborhood, when he was 4, and married her in 1965. After his graduation from Leo High School, Mr.

Hynes worked his way through Loyola University and law school, where hereceived a degree in 1969, with a job at the Internal Revenue Service. When first income tax was passed that same year, he was tapped for a job with the Illinois Department of Revenue and helped put in place the means to collect the tax, his brother said. He went on to serve as general counsel under Cook County Assessor Thomas Tully before going into private practice. Raising his family in Beverly neighborhood, Mr. Hynes was a ready volunteer to coach his sports teams.

Between work and his family, he kept a busy schedule despite often being in intense pain from a bone disease that had plagued him for many years, his brother said. was incredibly resilient and motivated to take care of his family despite what he was going his son said. A natural storyteller who would spin yarns about growing up on the South Side, was one of the funniest people ever his son said. was as comfortable with CEOs as he was with guys in the Said was a guy who knew when to lawyer, knew when to father and knew when to have Besides his wife, son and include two other sons, Brian and Michael; two other brothers, Tim and Jack; and six grandchildren. Visitationwill be from 3 to 9 p.m.

Tuesdayin Andrew J. McGann and Son Funeral Home, 10727 S. Pulaski Chicago. Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Wednesdayin St.

Cajetan Catholic Church, 2445 W. 112th Chicago. Aided state on income tax Revenue Department attorney helped put in place the means to collect the tax and also served as an adviser to his brother and his nephew Robert E. Hynes advised his brother Thomas, former Cook County assessor, and his nephew Daniel, state comptroller. Robert E.

Hynes 1944 2007 By Graydon Megan Special to the Tribune Richard Charles Thorne had avoice and a vision to match, parlaying his talents into a career that spanned radio, politics, journalism and industrial training. had this great baritone voice, we used to call it voice of said John Rosenheim, founder of Universal Training Systems, where Mr. Thorne helped produce audiocassettes for clients. Mr. Thorne also created, wrote and produced Hall of a series of half- hour radio dramas to the supernatural, the unusual and the that aired in the early 1950s on the Mutual Broadcasting System, according to family members.

Mr. Thorne, 81, died of complications from pneumonia Monday, Feb. 12, in Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, Minn. He had lived in Glenview for about 14 years before health problems forced him to move closer to family in Minneapolis.

Mr. Thorne was born and raised in Chicago. His interest in radio began at Amundsen High School. think he had that voice all through high said his daughter, Janice Kidd. of his teachers told him he ought to put it to He became involved in radio classes, and during that time he met Janice Olsen, according to family sources.

They were married in 1948. Mr. Thorne took some classes at Columbia College in Chicago, where Kidd said her father later taught. taught at night as asecond job for many she said. By the late 1940s Mr.

Thorne and Carl Greyson, who would also become a well-known Chicago radio voice, were at a station in Salt Lake City, where they began working on a radio drama that would eventually become Hall of That was apparently about the time he adopted Thorne as his name, deciding it was shorter and easier to remember than his birth name, Rappaport. After a stop in New York, Mr. Thorne returned to Chicago and worked as a staff announcer at WGN radio. By the early 1950s, Hall of was nationally syndicated by Mutual. The show, audio samples of which can be found on the Internet, opened with Mr.

voice saying to the Hall of inviting listeners to with me, my Mr. Thorne left radio for public relations in the mid-1950s. He worked for the Chicago Board of ElectionCommission- ers and joined the gubernatorial campaign of Otto Kerner in 1960. Kerner was elected and Mr. Thorne became his press secretary and an administrative assistant, staying in the post until fall 1962, when he returned to Chicago to take a job with radio station WNUS.

From there he joined Universal Training, first as a freelancer, then full time in 1970. was not only the voice, but he was also the Rosenheim said. eventually headed up the audio-visual department as vice president in charge of production. was a great director. He knew how to bring out the best in In 1991Mr.

Thorne shifted to part-time work with the company and continued with a small business of his own for a few years, family said. Mr. first marriage ended in 1990. A 10-year second marriage ended in 2004. Survivors also include two other daughters, Robin Darcy and Lowell Wagner; a son Richard; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren Visitation will be held from 3 to 9 p.m.

Tuesday in Ahlgrim Sons Funeral Cremation Services, 330 W. Golf Schaumburg. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Created radio show in 1950s Announcer with rich baritone used voice for Hall of and to create industrial training cassettes Richard Charles Thorne 1925 2007 On Feb.

20, 1437, King James I was murdered by political enemies in the Scottish city of Perth. In 1792 President George Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office. In 1809 the Supreme Court ruled that the power of the federal government is greater than that of any one state. In 1895 abolitionist Frederick Douglass died in Washington; he was 77.

In 1933 the U.S. House completed congressional action on an amendment to repeal Prohi- bition. In 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as In 1962 astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. (He circled the globe three times inside the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.) In 1974 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee voted to test President Richard willingness to cooperate with its impeachment inqui- ry asking the White House for specific items of Watergate evidence.

In 1980 the U.S. announced it would boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. In 1988 American Brian Boitano won the figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. In 1996 Patrick Buchanan won the New Hampshire Republican primary by a slim margin over Bob Dole. In 1999 Chicago Tribune mo- vie columnistGene Siskel died in Evanston of brain cancer; he was 53.

In 2003 fire erupted at a West Warwick, R.I., nightclub during a pyrotechnic display at a concert by the rock band Great White, killing 100 people and injuring more than 200 others. In 2005 Cabinet gave final approval to the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. Also in 2005 counterculture writer Hunter S. Thompson died in Woody Creek, he was 67. ALMANAC Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES When Peggy Gilbert decided to switch from playing piano to saxophone when she was in high school in Sioux City, Iowa, in the 1920s, she faced resistance.

Girls could play violin, piano and harp in the school bands, she was told, but they allowed to play wind instruments. So Ms. Gilbert, hot to learn the sax, took lessons from a local bandleader. And a year after high school graduation in 1923, she formed her own all-female jazz band, the Melody Girls. The group was the first in a string of all-female jazz bands that Ms.

Gilbert led throughout the 1920s, and an era in which female musicians were considered inferior to males and Ms. Gilbert became known as a strong advocate for female instrumentalists. Ms. Gilbert, who led her most recent all-female Gilbert and the Dixie into her 90s, died of complications fromhip surgery Feb. 12 in Burbank, said her friend Jeannie Pool.

She was 102. Pool and Ms. Gilbert had been working on a biography, Peggy Gilbert Story: American Jazz Band Leader, Saxophone Player and Advocate for Women for the past four years. had just a fabulous recollection of names, dates and Pool said. of the things about the film and the book is she not only tells about her own life, she documents dozens of women musicians and their why she callsMs.

Gil- bertan said Pool. often went down to the union and demanded equal opportunity for women instrumentalists, and she wrote a column women for the Local 47 newspaper. She was always calling for an end to Pool said Ms. various all-female bands played jazz, and she was in the forefront of the swing movement in the a time in which her band also appeared in a number of movies. Peggy Gilbert 2007 Advocate for women in jazz Associated Press LOUISVILLE Former Rep.

Marion Snyder, a veteran of 11terms representing largest city in Congress, has died at age 79. The conservative Republican died late Friday in Naples, where he had retired, according to family friend Joe Whittle, a former U.S. attorney who was with Mr. family in Florida. lost a good Whittle said.

brought a lot of improvements. He loved Kentucky. He was a great Mr. Snyder was first elected in 1962 from 3rd District, covering Louisville, but lost a re-election bid. He ran again in 1966, after the seat was redrawn as the 4th District, and held it for the next two decades.

He was succeeded by Jim Bunning, who is now a U.S. senator. Mr. Snyder, known for blunt rhetoric, served as a mentor to most of current lawmakers, including Bunning and Sen. Mitch McConnell.

will always remember Gene as the man who gave me my first real opportunity in McConnell said. the summer of 1963 I served as an intern in his Capitol Hill office and I learned a lot from watching him Mr. energy set him apart, said former Rep. Anne Northup, who served five terms in the 3rd District. filled a big said Northup, a Republican now running for governor.

was bigger than life in a lot of ways, and I know be Despite the Snyder decided not to run for a 12th term in 1986. He endorsed Bunning, who won the seat in 1986 and went on to hold the seat for 12 years. Mr. Snyder described himself as a poor boy from other side of the tracks in a cold-water in West End, but at the time of his retirement from Congress he was the richest member of congressional delegation, with assets of $1.6 million, according to a financial disclosure form. He earned part of his fortune as a broker of coal and real estate to electric power companies.

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