Robert E. Bedore

Funeral services for Robert E. Bedore, 78, will begin at 9:15 a.m. Thursday at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Lisle, Ill., and proceed to St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church for Mass at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Assumption Cemetery in Wheaton, Ill.
Mr. Bedore died Monday, Dec. 12, 2011.
He was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War. He was a former member of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Lorraine Peterson Bedore; his children, Gary Bedore, of Lawrence, Robert A. Bedore and wife Joan, Gail Jungels and Tim Bedore; five grandchildren, Julianne, Elizabeth, Ryan, Sean and Nathan; three great-grandchildren, Haley, Ethan and Gabrielle; a brother, Jack Bedore and wife Lois; a sister, Joyce Kole and husband John; a sister-in-law, Carol Coffman and husband Jack; and many nieces and nephews. Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or at www.stjude.org.
Online condolences may be made at www.blake-lambfuneralhome.com.