Woman from Gately department store family dies
By STEVE METSCH smetsch@southtownstar.com February 2, 2012 9:00PM
Waigand
Updated: March 23, 2012 10:20PM
A funeral Mass will be said Saturday for Therese “Terry” Waigand.
Mrs. Waigand, 60, whose maiden name was Kelly, died of lung cancer in Fort Myers, Fla., on Jan. 16, a cousin, Mary Gately, of Chicago’s Beverly community, said Thursday.
Their grandfather, James Gately, started a department store in Chicago’s Roseland community and later opened another in Tinley Park on 159th Street east of Harlem Avenue. The latter became home to the SouthtownStar newspaper until last year.
A graduate of St. Barnabas Grade School, Mrs. Waigand graduated from Mother McAuley in 1969 and then attended Loretto Heights, a Roman Catholic college for women in Denver, Gately said. Her third year of college was spent in Rome.
After college, she worked at Merrill Lynch.
Mrs. Waigand eventually left Merrill Lynch to work in brokerage for a bank in New Buffalo, Mich.
In 2008, she got a job offer in Fort Myers, Fla., with UBS Financial, so she and her husband moved there.
Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 10134 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago. The funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m., Gately said.
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