Anne N. Danegger, 90, former president of the Fox Lake District Library Board, had spent a total of 62 years associated with libraries, including 42 years in the Chicago Public Library system.
A resident of Fox Lake since 1966, she died Thursday in St. Therese Hospital in Waukegan.
Mrs. Danegger started her library career at age 17 as a stack clerk in a library near her home on the West Side. At time she was employed fetching books for library patrons, she studied library science at Rosary College. She eventually became supervisor of the Chicago Public Library’s West Side Branch.
She retired in the late 1960s and moved to Fox Lake, where a small library served the community.
Appointed to its library board in 1970 to fill a vacancy, she subsequently was elected to the board over the next 20 years, was president twice and vice president three times.
Mrs. Danegger served on the library board during conversion of the library to one serving the surrounding area as well as the village. She also played a key role in the expansion of the library.
A passionate reader, she, however, had to switch to audiotaped books later in life because of an eye disorder.
“She was a great advocate of libraries,” Harry J. Bork, librarian for the Fox Lake District Library, said.
There are no immediate survivors.
Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday in the K.K. Hamsher Funeral Home, 12 N. Pistakee Lake Rd., Fox Lake.
Mass will be said for Mrs. Danegger at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Peter Catholic Church, 2206 Main St., Spring Grove.
