Richard J. Roth Sr.

He was born on August 14, 1919, in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1941 with a degree in economics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II as a professional meteorologist, having received his meteorological training at MIT.

After the war, he started the Crop Hail Insurance Actuarial Association in Chicago, which provided statistical and actuarial data to the insurance companies which insured corn and tobacco crops from hail damage. From 1960 to 1994, he worked as a professional insurance actuary for the Travelers Insurance Company in Hartford, the AIG companies in New York, the Great American Insurance Company in Los Angeles and finally the CNA Insurance Company in Chicago, where he retired.

He had five children: Richard Jr in Huntington Beach, California, Alex in Natick, Massachusetts, Regina and Michael in Glenview, Illinois, and Nancy in Brookline, New Hampshire. He had two step children: Leslie Fryxell of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Lori Dildy of Round Lake, Illinois.

There will be a memorial service at 10:00am on Saturday, April 17, at the St. James the Less Church, 550 Sunset Ridge Road, Northfield, Illinois. He will be buried afterwards in the cemetery at St. James the Less Church.

Arrangements under the direction of Wm. H. Scott Funeral Home, Wilmette, IL, 847-251-8200.