Emily I. Bergmann

January 1, 1938 - July 24, 2019

Emily I. Bergmann, 81, passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at Winchester House in Libertyville, IL. She was born January 1, 1938 in Libertyville, where she was a 1956 Libertyville High School and received her nursing degree from Grant Hospital in Chicago. She was employed by the Lake County Health Department as a Communicable Disease Coordinator, Condell Medical Center in Libertyville and Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago as an Infection Control Coordinator. Emily was a member of the IL Public Health Association and the Association for Practitioners in Infection Control & Prevention. She was a founding member of the Down Syndrome Development Council of Lake County, was a very active member of St. John Lutheran Church in Libertyville, the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society and the Lake County Farm Bureau. Surviving are her 2 children, Debra (Bill) Weichman and Rick Bergmann; 2 grandchildren, Gregory Torbeck and Nyssa (Joe) Torbeck Rodriguez and 2 brothers, Roy Kunke and William (the late Carole) Kunke. She was preceded in death by her parents, William & Irene Kunke, her son, Jonathan, a sister, Judy Burns and sister-in-law, Linda Kunke. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, August 1, 2019 at St. John Lutheran Church, 501 W. Park Ave. Libertyville, IL 60048. A visitation will be from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at Burnett-Dane Funeral Home, 120 W. Park Ave. (Rt. 176, one block west of Milwaukee Ave.) Libertyville. Interment will be at Lakeside Cemetery in Libertyville. Memorial contributions can be made to the Down Syndrome Developmental Council of Lake County or St. John Lutheran Church. For info: 847-362-3009 or share a memory at www.burnettdane.com.