Frederick Kuharich Obituary

Frederick Kuharich was born in Chicago on May 11, 1921 and passed at home with family members present on December 22, 2009. He attended Chicago public schools, including Lane Tech High School, graduating in 1938. After four years of pre-med at Lewis Institute, he entered Northwestern University Medical School. He received his MD degree in 1946 after internship and was ordered to Great Lakes Naval Station. There he served as Naval Medical Officer and was assigned to U.S. Public Health Service where he did tuberculosis case finding in south Texas until discharged in 1949. He started post-graduate work at St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, and later Cook County Hospital and Hines VA Hospital. In 1954, he moved to Glen Ellyn where he did solo practice in Internal Medicine until 1964 when he and six other local doctors started the Glen Ellyn Clinic, retiring in 1988. He was president of the DuPage County Medical Society in 1963 and president of Central DuPage Hospital staff in 1970. He was a member of the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago and painted there 15 years as well as continuing membership in the DuPage Art League. Through the years he had numerous exhibitions locally and in Chicago. He is survived by his wife Wanda and their son Andrew, and children Douglas and Amy by a previous marriage, and stepsons, Marc and Brett Henry; grandson Asa Kuharich, granddaughters Lauren Henry Finley, Jennifer Henry, and Amber Coleman St. Onge; daughter-in-law Heidi Fennewald Kuharich; nephew Richard Kuharich of Pensacola, Florida, nieces Carol Parden of Chicago, Nancy Mills of Vermont; great-nieces Leslie, Lara, and Rachel; also, sister-in-law Elizabeth Brunty of Carbondale, Illinois. He was preceded in death by his parents, Max and Mary Kuharich, and three brothers: William, Max, Jr., and Charles. Memorial arrangements pending. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to CNS Home Health and Hospice, 690 E. North Avenue, Carol Stream, Illinois, 60188.