Chicago Bear to start the final goodbye on Tuesday to the longtime owner of the Virginia Halas McCaski team – ABC7 Chicago

Chicago – The bears in Chicago will start saying goodbye to the longtime owner of the team Virginia Halas McCaski, who died last Thursday at 102.

Her visit happens from 1 to 8 pm Tuesday at Oehler’s funeral home in Des Plains.

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A private funeral will be held on Wednesday at the St. Emily Catholic Church in the Prospect Mountain.

McCaski has served as the bear owner since October 31, 1983, after his father’s death, bear founder George Halas.

Like his father, the co -founder of NFL, McCashi held the team in family hands. She gave operational control and title to the president of her oldest son, Michael McCaski, who in 2011 was the chairman until he was succeeded by Brother George McCaski.

During her leadership, the bears won a superboul in 1986 and lost a second 21 years later.

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McCasky, the older of Halas’s two children, never expected to be responsible. Her brother George Halby Halas Jr. was maintained to take over the team, but suddenly died of a heart attack in 1979.

McCaski took ownership of her father’s death in 1983, and her late husband, Ed McChaski, inherited Halas as chairman. Not long after, she turned control to Michael, the biggest of her 11 children.

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The official title of McCashi was the secretary of the Board of Directors. Despite the usual approach to the hands and the low public profile, it occasionally exercised the ultimate authority of team decisions such as the matriarch of the family.

McCasky had 11 children, eight sons and three daughters. He survives from his sons Patrick, Edward, Jr., George, Richard, Brian and Joseph, and daughters Ellen Tonkest, Mary and Anne Katron. She also survived from 21 grandchildren, 40 great -grandchildren and four great -grandchildren.

The Associated Press and ABC7 Chicago contributed to this report.