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Barbara Giolitto, Illinois House of Representatives; Edolo J. Giorgi, Illinois House of Representatives; Rodney Grams, Republican United States Senator, news anchor, WIFR 23 Rockford [14] Joyce Holmberg, educator and Illinois state senator; Alta M. Hulett, attorney, first woman admitted to the state of Illinois Bar [15]
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Greenwood Cemetery is a 100-acre (40 ha) cemetery in Rockford, Illinois. Founded in 1852, it is the largest and oldest in the city. Founded in 1852, it is the largest and oldest in the city. The Greenwood Cemetery Chapel and Crematory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Born in Rockford, Illinois, Giorgi served in the United States Army during World War II and then went to Washington and Lee University. During World War II, he served forty months as an Orientation Sergeant in Armored Corps (Tanks) and Amphibious. After the war, he served as the Deputy Assessor for Rockford Township.
Robert Ellin, 66, English-born American stone and wood sculptor, died of heart failure. [51] [52] [better source needed] William McCleave, 78–79, Irish-born Union Army officer [53] John James McDannold, 52, U.S. Representative from Illinois [54] Benjamin Pickard, 61, British coal miner, trade unionist and politician, died of heart disease. [55]
Raymond Lee Stewart (January 21, 1952 – September 18, 1996) was an American robber and spree killer who murdered six people during a week-long rampage in Rockford, Illinois and Beloit, Wisconsin in 1981. Stewart was sentenced to death for the murders he committed in Illinois and was executed in 1996 at Stateville Correctional Center. [1]
Dr. Richard Ragsdale (September 1, 1935 1 October 23, 2004 [1]) was a physician who performed abortions in Illinois. Ragsdale opened his Northern Illinois Women's Center in 1973, after the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court case striking down laws against abortion.
Sundstrand Corporation was founded in 1926 as a merger of two companies started by Swedish immigrants: the Rockford Tool Company and the Rockford Milling Machine Company in Rockford, Illinois. It was known as Sundstrand Machine Tool Company until 1959 when shareholders voted to change the name to Sundstrand Corporation.