Hastings Family

James E. Hastings, 76, a Chicago attorney and longtime Northbrook resident, died Friday in Glenbrook Hospital, Glenview. Mr. Hastings was a partner in the firm of Chadwell, Kayser, Ruggles, McGee and Hastings. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and served in the Army during World War II. He is survived by two daughters, Camille MacKusick and Margaret Sullivan; two sons, Jeffery and James E. Jr.; and seven grandchildren. Services will be private.

...the west side of the street has changed little over the past eighty years. At 1574 Asbury Avenue, a vaguely Prairie-style two-story house still stands, although it has recently suffered an ignominious frosting of gray stucco. There is no plaque on the house to mark it as the childhood home of the author of Auntie Mame.
This comfortable, upper-middle class residence had a picture window fronting the street and a large solarium in the rear. On the side was a garage, a late-1920s addition, with space for two cars. Inside the house, everything was smartly upholstered in black sateen with brilliant turquoise welting, the result of a stylishness that always came naturally to Pat's mother, Florence. Although she had been born and raised in the much smaller town of Ottawa, Illinois, sixty miles southwest of Chicago, Florence Thacker had always been known for vast quantities of chic and charm that made her a hit in Chicago social circles. "She could charm the birds right off the trees," Pat often said of her.
Florence was one of three women in the house at 1574 Asbury Avenue. There were also pat's sister, Barbara, born ten years before him, and his grandmother, Samantha Thacker, Florence's mother, who doted on him.
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The women in Pat's house adored him, and his sister, Barbara, became his best friend.
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Once grown-up, Edward left Buffalo and worked his way into the Midwest. In Ottawa, Illinois, he met Florence Thacker at a dance at the boat club. Although a farming community, Ottawa had a rigid class system, and the local boat club was the equivalent of a yacht club anywhere else. Florence had a young daughter, Barbara, by a marriage that had ended in divorce—a rarity in that time and place. However, this did not deter Edward from proposing to Florence and accepting young Barbara as his own daughter. Edward would prove a better father to Barbara than to Pat—he did not carry the same expectations for her—and Barbara adored her new daddy. As far as she was concerned, Edward would always be her real father.
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the Tanners had been able to give their daughter a beautiful wedding when Barbara married Jack Hastings in 1935.

The Hastings Family

James Elliot Hastings

John Douglas Hastings

Leroy Hezmer Hastings