Warren E. Grant, 84, of Aurora, IL, passed away on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at his home, surrounded by his loving family.
He was born in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago in 1924.
He was a Life Scout and attended Schurz High School, where he was a member of the Drum and Bugle Corps and ROTC. Grant enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 and received the Purple Heart for combat valor during World War II as a B-24 bombardier with the United States 15th Air Force stationed in southern Italy.
After the war, he graduated from Northwestern University and then entered a 40-year career in advertising and marketing communications for firms in Chicago and North Kingston, RI. In retirement on Hilton Head Island, Grant was active as a member of the island’s Architectural Review Board and the Art League.
Grant and his wife, Mary, moved back to Aurora in 1995, where he served a three year term on the City of Aurora Public Art Commission.
He also was elected president of the condominium association for four terms, where he and his wife resided.
Grant also was active in communications for the Illinois Department of Veteran Affairs headquartered in Springfield, IL and he spent 20 years as a contributor and editor of a quarterly publication for the 376th Bomb Group Veteran’s Association.
His admiration for the architecture and design of Frank Lloyd Wright informed both his and his family’s lives for many decades.
A hobbyist architect himself, Grant did the preliminary drawings, inspired by the design aesthetics of Frank Lloyd Wright, for the home in Evanston, IL, where he and his wife raised their family.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Mary.
He is survived by three children, Cynthia (James) Biasi,Warren John Grant and Linda (Keith) Brown; and two grandchildren, Colleen and Trevor Brown.
He and his wife will be interred together after a Memorial Service held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 23 at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Elwood, IL. Arrangements by Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home, 44 S. Mill Street, Naperville, IL 60540.
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