Andrew Yurksaitis of Elburn.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

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Andrew Yurksaitis of Elburn Visitation for Andrew Yurksaitis, 69, will be from 12 to 4 p.m. Saturday, at Conley Funeral Home, 116 W. Pierce St., Elburn. Born on Oct. 18, 1935, in Lithuania, the son of John and Maria (Povlitis) Yurksaitis, he died unexpectedly Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, at Delnor Community Hospital, Geneva, where he was stricken with a heart attack.

His family came to the United States when Andrew was 16 and settled in Connecticut. Later moving to Chicago, Andrew attended DePaul University while serving in the Army National Guard. He graduated from DePaul with a bachelor's degree in accounting and went on to earn his master's degree in finance from Northwestern University, Evanston. Through the years that followed, Andrew lived mostly in the...