Attended New Trier East

Passed away due to complications associated with heart and double lung transplants 12 years earlier. Survived by her children and a sister who attended NTE and her brother Dan DeGross NTE '76.

- Submitted by Abbie Halperin Schuetze following a phone call with Dan DeGross

Deceased Name: Marie Shook-Karlovitz
Services for Marie Shook-Karlovitz (Nee DeGross)
43, of Mount Prospect, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, at Willow Creek Community Church, 67 E. Algonquin, Barrington. Born Oct. 8, 1953, she died Friday, Aug. 29, 1997. Interment will be in Memory Garden Cemetery. She was the wife of John Karlovitz; mother of Matthew Grudzien and Meagan Grudzien; daughter of Phyllis and Jerome DeGross; and sister of Daniel DeGross, David DeGross, Cynthia Ostrowski, Sandra Nielsen and Laura Steiner.

- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) - September 2, 1997