(Jewish Group) 'Like a big, big oak tree': Remembering July 4 shooting victim Stephen Straus, 88
Among the Jewish people killed in Monday’s mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade was Stephen Straus, 88.
Describing him as a family patriarch and a busybody, Straus’ relatives said he seemed destined to live much longer.
“He had an unquenchable thirst for life,” his niece, Cynthia Straus, said Tuesday in an interview.
A financial adviser well past most people’s retirement age, Straus still took the train into the city for work five days a week, but also made time for after-work excursions to the Chicago symphony and the Art Institute.
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Stephen Straus (right), who was killed in the July 4 shooting, with his son Jon at a family wedding. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Cynthia Straus)
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What a tragedy for this family! And what an exceptional man. BTW, the bar mitzvah that I attended just before everything locked down was for the husband of one of the lovely women in my weekly meditation group. And it wasn't a regular bar mitzvah, it was the 70th anniversary of his bar mitzvah! Lois, the eldest lady in my group, invited everyone in the group - and we got to meet the family, including their son, Jon.
My heart goes out to this family - he may have been 88, but it was a valuable life cut short... 
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