Victor Warner grew up during the Depression, served in the Army during World War II, then owned and ran J.S. Warner & Sons Monument Co. in East Dundee. A tuba player in his youth, he sang bass for many years in the choir at St. Catherine of Siena Church in West Dundee. Mr. Warner, 84, died of Alzheimer’s disease Friday, Jan. 9, in ASTA Health Care Center in Elgin. Born in St. Cloud, Minn., he attended school through the 8th grade before his family moved to Chicago. He was drafted into the Army in 1943, was a radio operator and then erected telephone lines in the Marshall Islands until his discharge in 1946. He got married that year, five years after being introduced to his wife, Kathleen, by his sisters. His father, John, a stonecutter, in 1946 bought a tombstone business in East Dundee, running it with his three sons. In 1955 his brothers decided to try other lines of work and Mr. Warner continued to run the business until his retirement in 1994. The business was sold in 1998. He is survived by four sons, Stephen, Michael, Philip and John; five daughters, Kathy Hurley, Lauren Christopherson, Susan Stec, Vicki Domich and Joan Torres; three sisters, Margaret Dospil, Gertrude Rotundo and Therese Fitzsimmons; 25 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Visitation is scheduled from 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Miller Funeral Home, 504 W. Main St., West Dundee, and Wednesday from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. mass in St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 845 W. Main St., West Dundee.
