Obituaries

Stan Esping's Life in His Own Words

An interview recorded of Stan Esping, talking to his daughter and remembering his life in Geneva.

Margaret Selakovich and I were just trading e-mails on the vagaries of a technology world.

But one thing that is wonderful about this electronic age is the many ways  in which we now can tell stories, and hopefully add meaning and context—even joy, sometimes—to people's lives.

We hope that's the case here.

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Thanks to technology, and courtesy of Margaret, the Geneva History Center and the wonderful and amazing David Phyfer at , we offer here something just a little magical—telling his life story, in his own words, as interviewed by his daughter, Pam Dodson.

As an aside, this is the clip that is running in the current StoryCorps exhibit at the . The exhibition has been funded in part by grants awarded by the Illinois Association of Museums and the "We Serve" Federation."

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A huge thanks, too, to St. Charles Patch Editor Nick Swedberg, who created the video presentation you are about to see and hear. 


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