Mario Pasin, 95 – Wednesday Journal

Mario A. Pasin, 95, died peacefully on Aug. 18, 2025. Born on Feb. 6, 1930, in Oak Park, he was the son of Antonio and Anna Pasin, each initially from Italy. From an early age, he skilled life each within the United States and in Italy, the place he spent frequent childhood summers. Those journeys gave him a deep appreciation for historical past, design, tradition, and the pure world. He carried these sensibilities with him.

He accomplished a mixed undergraduate and legislation diploma on the University of Notre Dame. The years he spent there have been amongst his happiest, remembered for its freedom, friendships, and progress.

He met Mary Kay, the love of his life, and so they married in 1959. They shared 66 years of marriage. He was pleased with his position as a father of 5, grandfather to 9, and great-grandfather to 1.

Mario led Radio Flyer, maker of the long-lasting crimson wagons for youths, the corporate based by his father, from the Sixties into the Nineties. He stewarded the household enterprise, treating everybody the identical no matter rank or standing. He believed deeply in high quality, not simply as a enterprise precept however as a lifestyle.

He cherished time in nature, remodeling the household farm in Wisconsin from a working dairy right into a restored pure sanctuary, planting hundreds of bushes and rejuvenating the land and lake. The farm was his favourite place. In later years, he additionally loved time in Florida, the place he walked, swam, gardened, and chaperoned his grandchildren on journeys to the ice cream store.

He can be remembered for his persistence, generosity, humility, and devotion to his household and neighborhood. He leaves behind a legacy of timeless values.

Mario was the husband of Mary Kay (née Berigan); the daddy of Mark (Mary Margaret), Therese (David) Brandenstein, Antonio, Paul (Jane), & Robert (Muriel Quinn); grandfather of Paul (Jenny), Mary (Kassi), & Miles Brandenstein, Helen, Henry, Oscar, & Linus Quinn Pasin, and Augustine (Moe) & Joy Pasin; great-grandfather of June; and brother of the late Mary Ann (the late Steve) Contro & Jeanette Pasin Sloan (Jack Lemon).

Visitation, adopted by Mass, passed off on Aug. 23 at St. Francis Xavier Church, 124 N. Spring Ave., LaGrange, with interment at Bronswood Cemetery, Oak Brook. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Mario’s title to UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, and Habitat for Humanity are appreciated.

Arrangements had been dealt with by Hallowell & James Funeral Home, Countryside.

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