Mike Nassar of Edgewater died suddenly, March 4, 2021, at the age of 71. Mike was a United States Marine who served in Vietnam. He completed his B.A. in philosophy at Loyola where he would later take a job as evening supervisor at the Cudahy Library. He held this position for 44 years until his recent death. Mike loved Loyola, his co-workers, the faculty, and the many students with whom he worked with daily. Mike was a huge movie enthusiast. Prior to the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic he went to theaters regulary and kept an up-to-date (and enviable) collection of DVDs. Besides his beloved city of Chicago, he enjoyed the beaches on Cape Cod, Nauset in particular, and the Berkshire hills in western Massachusetts. One of his favorite past times was arguing with friends about the New England Patriots. He loved dogs and his parakeet. Mike was predeceased by his mother, Hanora, in 1993. He leaves the Kerr family, Lisa and Jim of Ashfield, MA; James Daniel, Caitlin, Lila and Madeline of Colorado; his godson, Evan William of St. Paul, MN; Irene "Nana" Kerr of Boston; Don Kelly and the Kelly family of Wilbraham, MA; a sister, Sue, of Arizona, and several nieces and nephews. Mike will be greatly missed by his entire Loyola Libraries family, especially members of his Access Services Department, including Avril De Bat and Tori Golden; his evening coworkers Faith Bennettt and Mary Donnelly; Elise Aversa; and former colleagues and friends Karen Cherone and Penny Dimakos. A burial service will be held at All Saints Cemetery (East side of the cemetery)  in Des Plaines, Illinois on Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. Please enter the cemetery from  the East gates on River Road.

A virtual memorial service will be held on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. CST. Please email lucitia53@gmail.com for the link and password to this memorial service. Memorial contributions on Mike's behalf may be made to the University Libraries Gift Fund at Loyola University of Chicago.