Services have been set for one of two Manhattan men who died Friday night following a crash in unincorporated Manhattan Township.
Brian Cadore, 31, was a passenger in a car driven by David J. Alberts, 36, that went off the road near Illinois Route 52 and Cedar Road and rolled over, according to Illinois State Police and the Will County coroner’s office. The incident occurred just before 9:30 p.m.
Cadore was pronounced dead at the scene just after 11 p.m. and Alberts was taken to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox where he was pronounced dead at 11:42 p.m., according to the coroner’s office.
State police are investigating the accident, and the coroner’s office said the two men suffered multiple injuries although a formal cause of death was yet to be determined. Police said both men were thrown from the vehicle.
Visitation for Cadore will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Kerry Funeral Home, 7020 W. 127th St., Palos Heights. A funeral mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Saint Alexander Church in Palos Heights, 7025 W. 126th St.
He worked for the last five years as an engineer for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad and previously worked as a firefighter and paramedic in Franklin Park, Dixmoor and for the Manhattan Fire Protection District.
Cadore began his paramedic training about a decade ago, working for Vandenberg Ambulance, and met his future wife, Taryn, who was working for Vandenberg’s sister firm, Trace Ambulance, as a paramedic. As part of his training and certification, he accompanied Trace paramedics on their calls, where they became acquainted, she said. The couple have been married almost six years and have two small children.
She said her husband knew Alberts through work at BNSF but that she did not know Alberts well.
Taryn Cadore said that her husband worked full-time as a firefighter-paramedic in Franklin Park and later Dixmoor. He worked part-time as a firefighter-paramedic for the Manhattan district from late 2008 until early 2010, according to Chief Daniel Forsythe.
The photo accompanying Cadore’s obituary at Kerry Funeral Home’s website shows him holding a fish he had caught, and his wife said it was something he always enjoyed.
“His whole world is fishing,” she said.
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