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Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 30

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Chicago Tribune, Sunday. August 17, 1980 Section 3 News footage: the soft leathers i I i I i t- It If I LA flllllll Trlbunt Photoi waller Kait Peter Drist and daughter Olga arrive Saturday for the funeral of his wife, Sophia, who died cancer Tuesday, and his son I lliilpli I1 i iiiiili HODen, wno was gunnea aown i ithe next day. Slaying victim, mother buried It's Capezio for work, Capezio for play and Capezib for just about anything that comes along. Up-tothe-mln'ute softies that easily run from one mood to another. Moccasin-fldp ballet slipper in waxy wine calf.

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A. STEVENS words Saturday morning as the bells began to toll for the victims of the double tragedy. "It's really a difficult occasion; to say anything In human words is really quite nothing," he said slowly. "We're looking to God for help to take these people wh" remain after this tragedy the family in His Because the deceased will be okay in "his hands." Fifteen pallbearers carried the two coffins into the church, Mrs. Drist's first, then Robert's.

Mrs. Drist's husband, Peter, and their daughter, Olga, followed, in front of Robert's fiance, Rosemary Coronado, 19. "We have come face to face with the greatest pain we can know," said the Rev. Andrij Chirowski, speaking in English for the benefit of the Drists Latino and other non-Ukrainian-speaking friends. "Today the world is in need of a lot of healing," be said.

"Soohia and Bob's family need healing. Their friends need healing. The people who caused Bob's death need healing, perhaps most of all." Mrs. Drist and her son would later be buried side-by-side in St. Nicholas Cemetery, Park Ridge Robert in a plot his father bought for himself immediately after his wife died.

"IT'S JUST not fair," said one shocked friend, Ed Kajor, 21. "He wasn't running around in the gangs or anything, and he went like this." "It just doesn't want to register," said another longtime neighborhood pal. "He won't be at the playground playing basketball, or coming down the street bouncing a ball, and it's just not going to be the same." By George de Lama I TWENTV-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Robert Drist was buried iext to his mother Saturday, three weeks before he as to be married and three days after a West Side gunmen killed him, seemingly at random. I More than 250 mourners packed the SS. Volodymyr and Ohla Ukrainian Catholic Church, 739 N.

Oakley Saturday morning to attend the divine liturgy rites for Mrs. Sophia Drist, 69, and her son. 1 The younger Drist was to have been among the Inourners. His mother, had died of cancer Tuesday in Illinois Masonic Hospital. But the next night, after a date with his fiance, Drist was standing with friends the corner of Fairfield Avenue and Iowa Street when he was shot down by youths firing from a passing car.

Those who had known him since his boyhood days in the neighborhood described him as friendly, good-look-Sng, athletic. The Gordon Tech High School graduate, a laborer for the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, was described by his employers as "a faithful employe who never missed a day's work." Police, searching for a motive for the slaying, said Drist was an innocent victim. Two street gang members, Wilfredo Romero, 27, of 844 N. California and Miguel Rivera, 18, of 450 N. Albany were, arrested and charged with murder after police said informants revealed their names.

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