Jack E. Wichman
1933 - 2004
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Jack Edmund Wichman, Jr. was born January 28, 1933, in Barrington, to Jack and Evelyn Wiemuth Wichman.
Wichman earned the rank of Eagle Scout as a member of BSA Troop #21, and played basketball at Barrington High School. He went on to graduate from the University of Dubuque in Iowa.
He served in the U.S. Army in Germany from October, 1954 to July, 1956 during the Korean Conflict.
Wichman married Lillian “Pepper” Lang on November 26, 1960; they raised three children in Tower Lakes and Barrington.
He owned the Zang's Company in Chicago, started by his wife’s uncle, and was active in the Barrington community as a life member of the Barrington Lions Club and a member of the Monitor Lounsbury Masonic Lodge #522. Wichman enjoyed golf, sailing, downhill skiing, bicycling, painting, and traveling.
Veteran Jack E. Wichman Jr., a lifelong resident of Barrington, passed away July 14, 2004, at the Lutheran Home in Arlington Heights. He rests in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery with other family members.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.