| William Conway
Funeral services for William I. Conway, 82, of Oak Park, a
former FBI investigator who worked on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping,
were held Tuesday, Nov. 9 at St. Edmund Church, Oak Park. Burial was in
St. Joseph Cemetery, rural Aledo.
He died Saturday, Nov 6 in an Elmwood Park Nursing Home.
Mr. Conway graduated from Georgetown University's law school in
1928 and worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1928 to
1933. As an investigator, he worked on the infamous kidnapping and
murder case of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
Mr. Conway was chief investigator for a special prosecutor
investigating charges of official corruption in Brooklyn, New York, from
1938 to 1942. He served on the Air Force Air Transfer Command from 1942
to 1945 and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He participated in the Yalta Conference, the famous 1945 meeting
of President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin that led to the occupation of
Germany and the formation of the United Nations.
Since 1945, Mr. Conway worked as a private attorney, with offices
in Chicago. He served on the Oak Park Police and Fire Commission in the
late 1960s and early 1970s.
Mr. Conway is survived by his wife Jane; two daughters, Jane Anne
and Mary Catherine; two sisters, M. Philomena Conway of Aledo and Mrs.
Margaret Keeler of Washington, DC; and a brother, Vincent of rural Aledo.
He was a brother of the late Joe Conway, and the late Dr. Martin
E. Conway, both of Aledo.
(Aledo Times Record, November, 1982)
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