Clement V. Rogall, 80, who for more than 30 years counseled troubled children as a school social worker and helped his son run a popular cigar store in downtown Elmhurst, died Saturday, Feb. 23, of a spinal stroke in Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. Born and raised on the South Side of Milwaukee, Mr. Rogall left home for Ripon College in Wisconsin in the early 1940s. At the beginning of World War II, he left college for the Army, serving as a medic in the Pacific throughout the war and rising to the rank of sergeant. When he came home, the GI Bill paid for his return to Ripon, where he studied education and social work. It was during his second stint at Ripon that he met Mary Kral, who would become his wife of 50 years. After graduation, Mr. Rogall moved to Chicago and began his first counseling job at York High School, where he worked for seven years. During this period he earned a master’s degree at Loyola University Chicago. In the late 1950s, he transferred to the Bensenville school system, where he worked with grade-school children for the rest of his career. After he retired in 1982, Mr. Rogall began assisting his son Steve in the operation of a cigar stand on 1st Street in Elmhurst. Besides his wife and son, Mr. Rogall is survived by two other sons, Mike and Dave, and a sister, Carolyn Konkle. A private memorial service is planned.
