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Postlethwait, Maria MacKenzie
Maria MacKenzie Postlethwait, 46, of Barrington, Ill., died Nov. 17, 2009, at St. Alexius Hospital, Hoffman Estates, Ill. Services will be 2:30 p.m. Monday at Willow Creek Community Church, 67 E. Algonquin Rd., South Barrington, IL 60010. Pastor Wally Marshall will officiate. Burial will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Evergreen Cemetery, Barrington. Visitation begins at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the church.
Survivors include her husband, Rich; her parents, Keith and Shirley MacKenzie; her children, John (12), Kelly (10) and Emily (8); brothers, Joe, Mark and Don MacKenzie; her father-in-law and mother-in-law, David and Anne Postlethwait; and sisters-in-law, Jody Spears, Joelyn Postlethwait and Traci VanWeelden.
Maria - We will all dearly miss you in our lives, but take great solace in knowing that you are now free to frolic in God's Kingdom of Heaven.
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