Article: Robert Harvey, retired Downers Grove teacher

Robert H. Harvey, 61, retired Downers Grove teacher and longtime Du Page County Democratic worker, died yesterday of a respiratory ailment in Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital.

Mr. Harvey, of Downers Grove, retired last year after 20 years as a teacher in various Downers Grove elementary schools, where he took a special interest in teaching science.

A Chicago native, Mr. Harvey grew up in Wheaton and Glen Ellyn and earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Roosevelt University. He had taught in Joliet and California and at the private Avery Coonley School in Downers Grove.

Mr. Harvey was active in civil rights as past president of the Downers Grove Human Relations Council and the ...

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