D’Aste celebration planned for Aug. 25
Mary Herak Sand photo
The D’Aste Church, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999, is a community center owned and maintained by the D’Aste Women’s Service Group. Insert early photos of D’Aste Church.
Mary Herak Sand photo
Special guests Inez Evans Freshour Pounds (102 years old) and Lila Fay Evans Kranz are two of 11 children of D’Aste settlers Jesse and Lila Evans. Inez is 102 and the oldest of all the living children of the original D’Aste settlers.
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Pat Quinn, former Governor of Illinois, is a great-nephew of Tom Quinn, a beloved early D’Aste leader.
Janis Keith photo
Gallagher sisters, Ethel Mcready and Fran Keith, are the nieces of Mike Gallagher, an early settler. Ethel and Fran’s parents, Frank and Mabel Gallagher, moved to D’Aste in the 1920s and attended mass in D’Aste for decades.
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