Services today for Eby-Brown chairman.(Business)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July, 2004 | by Kukec, Anna Marie

Byline: Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Staff Writer William "Bill" Sayles Wake, chairman of Naperville-based Eby- Brown Co. LLC, will be remembered by family, friends and colleagues at a memorial service at 3 p.m. today at St. David's Episcopal Church, 701 N. Randall Road, Aurora. Wake died Saturday.

He was 78. "He had an incredible sense of integrity, honesty and a sense of humor," said The Rev. Susan Holstrom, St. David's rector. Wake was a long-time member of the church, joining with wife, Bobbie. She died in 1999. About four years ago, Wake married Elinor Nuyen, who survives him. Other survivors include two stepchildren, his six children, several grandchildren, nephews and a niece. Eby-Brown is a 100-year-old company that distributes several...