Laila Malecki
Of Arlington Heights

Laila Wigren-Malecki was born on April 17, 1926 in Chicago to Aleksander and Elizabeth Wigren. She passed away on October 14, 2010 at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

Laila and her twin sister, Ella, were popular as the Toni Twins during the1950’s ad campaign for Toni Home Permanents. They also danced at the Chez Paree, Chicago’s famous Supper Club of the 1920’s through 1950’s. In her later years, she was a piano teacher in the Arlington Heights area.

Laila is survived by her husband Larry Malecki; her daughters, Liz (Jim Cosentino) Malecki, Melissa Malecki and Joy (Kevin) Wade; and her twin sister, Ella (late Edwin) Drath.

She is preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Helen Galloway.

Visitation 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM, Tuesday, October 19, 2010, at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Road, (4 blocks south of Palatine Road) Arlington Heights, followed by a Commital Service at Memory Gardens at 1:45 PM, 2501 E. Euclid, Arlington Heights, IL. Entombment at Memory Gardens Cemetery.


 

Glueckert Funeral Home