Dear Austin Family,
Please accept my deepest sympathy at this sad time. Please also know that your friends in Lincolnshire are supporting you in prayer.
Most Sincerely,
Kim Sylvan

I was very saddened to receive the news of Dave’s passing. My thoughts go out to his family…I am sorry for your loss.
We had lots of good times during our years in junior high and high school growing up in Deerfield.
We kept in touch for a bit after high school , he was a nice guy, and we were friends for my part.
RIP Dave

David is/was his own man.  As a child and through his ensuing years he developed his own values and goals, some quite different from his father, others following his fathers’ leading well beyond my rejection of those formerly common values, but always true to his committed believe.  We enjoyed many summers of youth baseball and latter, while his health permitted, rounds of golf together.  One occasion was winning our flight at the Oak Park Country Club Invitational while loosing in a sudden death playoff to the number one flight, after having tied in the overall flight playoff.  Although we have had several luncheon over the past few years our discussions were usually academic in nature.  I am grateful that he was able to get me and his siblings’ families together for a movie night at his home a week before his death.  He was a student of history and kept up to date on the state of our nation and its politics.  I was always interested in his perspective of our circumstances.  I wish we’d been able to regain our comradery on the golf course, but that was not to be.  It is satisfying to recall we always parted with the mutually stated and felt words, “I LOVE YOU DAVID/DAD.”  I miss him dearly!

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David Laurence Austin

November 5, 1964 – July 25, 2026

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