Gardner Henry Stern, retired business executive, civic leader andone of the city's most enduring White Sox fans, died Saturday ofnatural causes at his North Side home. He was 92.
Mr. Stern was the great-grandson of pioneer sausagemaker DavidBerg. He retired in 1969 as president of Hillman's Foods. Mr. Sternattended the opening of the original Comiskey Park in 1910 andbrought one of his great-grandsons to Opening Day at the new ComiskeyPark in 1991.
Mr. Stern attended Forrestville School, the Harvard School forBoys and Yale University. He was a longtime trustee of theUniversity of Chicago, director of Encyclopaedia Britannica andChicago Title and Trust Co., and he was past president of theCommunity United Fund of Chicago.
Along with serving on boards of Roosevelt University, theChicago Historical Society, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, LincolnPark Zoo and Adler Planetarium, Mr. Stern was vice president of theJewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and headed the United NegroCollege Fund's chapter here.
He served in the Navy during World War II.
Mr. Stern's wife of 64 years, Hanchen, died in 1991. He issurvived by sons Gardner H. Jr., Harry, John and Jeffrey; 12grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Furth Funeral Home,5206 N. Broadway. Burial is private.
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