Malcolm Dick Minnick, a 39 year resident of Clarendon Hills, IL, formerly of Kettering, OH, Richfield, MN, and Indianapolis, IN, died on Wednesday, January 1, 2003. Mr. Minnick, 80, was born October 22, 1922, in Terre Haute, IN, to Ralph Ora Minnick and Hannah Agnes Dick Minnick who preceded him in death. He graduated from Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis and was given a Rector Scholarship to attend DePauw University in Greencastle, IN, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and lettered three years on the baseball team. At DePauw, he entered the V12 program and became a supply officer in the Navy where he served aboard a destroyer escort in the Atlantic during World War II. After 47 years with Sears, Roebuck and Company, in a variety of positions, he retired as the general manager of the Fashion Merchandising Center in Chicago. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Board of the Clarendon Hills Library. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Frances Louise, nee Porter; his sons M. David (Heidi), Lawrence P., Douglas K. (Birthe); and six grandchildren, Michelle, Matthew, Erika, Katherine, Alexander and Christopher; and two cousins, Betty Anne Dick (Charles) Bosstick and Virginia Claire Wright (Gilbert, Jr.) Gambill. A service was held at 1 p.m. Friday, January 3, in the Elliston Funeral Home in Hinsdale, IL. Interment was at 1:30 p.m. among many large oak trees in Bronswood Cemetery in Oak Brook, IL. Memorials appreciated to St. Thomas Hospice, 8230 S. Madison, Burr Ridge, IL 60527.
