Virginia Z. Kucera
Of Arlington Heights for 46 years

Virginia Kucera was born October 3, 1938 in Chicago to William S. Sr. and Helen (nee Gawrylak) Zittnan. She died on Monday, February 28, 2011 at Autumn Leaves of Crystal Lake.

Mrs. Kucera attended Providence High School in Chicago, graduated from Loyola University in 1960 with a B.S. in Sociology/Psychology, and Roosevelt University with a M.A. in Gerontology in 1990. Virginia was the Director, Division of Chapter Services for the American Academy of Pediatrics in Elk Grove Village from 1985 to 1996, and an Associate Executive Director for the Clearbrook Center for the Handicapped in Rolling Meadows from 1977 to 1984. She served as an Arlington Heights Village Trustee from 1997 until 2009, and a Trustee of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library from 1977 to 1983.

She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Robert C. Kucera, Sr. whom she married April 8, 1961; her children, Anne Marie Sablock, Robert C. Jr. (Jolanta) Kucera, and Matthew P. (Kristine) Kucera; her grandchildren, Julia and Nicholas Sablock, Mark, Helena, Nicole, and Amanda Kucera; and her siblings, William Jr. (Maryann) Zittnan, Melanie (Theodore) Porter, and Robert (Christine) Zittnan.

Visitation from 3:00 PM until 8:00 PM, Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd., (4 blocks south of Palatine Rd.) Arlington Heights. Prayers 8:45 AM, Thursday, March 3, 2011 at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., to Our Lady of the Wayside Church, 440 S. Mitchell, Arlington Heights for Mass at 9:30 AM. Interment is at St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery in Palatine.


 

 

Glueckert Funeral Home

(847) 253-0168

1520 North Arlington Heights Road

Arlington Heights, IL 60004