Already grieving the lack of relations from Rolling Meadows, the individuals who coached Thomas Dobosz discovered on Wednesday that he too had died from accidents sustained in an oncoming crash final weekend in McHenry County.
The 32-year-old Rolling Meadows father-of-four was being handled for critical accidents at Loyola College Medical Middle in Maywood after being airlifted there by helicopter early Sunday.
He was pronounced useless at 11:17 a.m. Wednesday on the hospital, in keeping with the Prepare dinner County Medical Examiner’s Workplace. The post-mortem has not but been carried out.
Illinois State Police and the organizer of a GoFundMe web page for the household additionally confirmed Dobosz’s dying on Wednesday.
“We include a heavy coronary heart right now with an replace on Tom. Tom has gained his angel wings and is now along with his great spouse Lauren and treasured kids. We ask that you just hold this household in your prayers. All proceeds will go to the household,” wrote Lisa Torres of the Oriole Park Falcons, a youth soccer and pep program the household was concerned in in Chicago’s northwest neighborhood.
En path to a trip at a Minnesota household cabin, Dobosz was driving the household’s 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck touring west on Interstate 90 close to Hampshire when it was hit by a touring 2010 Acura TSX sedan. within the flawed route. State troopers responded at 2:11 a.m. Sunday to the scene, the place the automobiles have been engulfed in flames.
Six passengers within the van have been killed: Lauren Dobosz, 31, her 4 kids — Emma, 13, Lucas, 7, Nicholas, 6, and Ella, 5 — and Katriona Koziara, 13, who was a good friend of the household.
Acura driver Jennifer Fernandez, 22, of Carpentersville, additionally died. State police solely mentioned they have been transferring east into westbound lanes “for unknown causes.”
Kasia Koziara, Katriona’s mom, instructed the Day by day Herald on Wednesday that she was planning a funeral and hopes to carry a memorial service quickly at a Rolling Meadows park. Affectionately recognized to household and pals as Kat, {the teenager} was a scholar instructor who ran lessons and mentored college students from the Prospect Heights-based Breaking Program, a breakdancing group that gives dance classes and workshops .
“It is a lot appreciated to help us as Katriona has been and at all times will likely be beloved and remembered by many,” her mom mentioned. “She deserves one of the best farewell I can provide to rejoice her life and her heavenly future.”
Mates of Thomas Dobosz gathered for an impromptu memorial throughout a soccer observe at Chicago’s Oriole Park on Wednesday evening. It’s on the similar location {that a} balloon launch memorial was held on Monday for the remainder of the Dobosz and Kat Koziara household.
“Tom was superb along with his fingers as a carpenter, a mechanic, an electrician – he was like a jack-of-all-trades,” mentioned cheer coach Wanda Perez of Chicago.
Based on Perez, Lauren and Thomas Dobosz met and fell in love at Ridgewood Group Excessive Faculty in Norridge. The couple then moved and raised their household in Rolling Meadows to assist help Lauren’s grandparents.
“They have been so loving, caring and beneficiant,” mentioned Perez, who befriended Lauren and Tom Dobosz in 2013. “Our friendship prolonged past teaching.”
A member of the family of the Dobosz confirmed on Wednesday that three on-line fundraising pages have been arrange on GoFundMe to assist with funeral and different bills.
The Oriole Park Falcons fundraiser, gofundme.com/f/dobosz-family-funeral-expenses, has raised over $98,000 for the Dobosz household.
The Rolling Meadows Police Division Hope Fund, gofundme.com/f/rmpd-hope-fund, raised greater than $43,000.
A web page created by Lauren Dobosz’s mother and father, gofundme.com/f/tom-and-lauren-dobosz-family, raised practically $26,000.
“I can not think about the ache and struggling the Dobosz and Johns households are feeling,” Perez mentioned. “I additionally ship my honest condolences to the household of Jennifer Fernandez, as I can not think about how they really feel and what they suppose. Additionally they suffered a loss.”
Funeral preparations are pending.
• Day by day Herald editor Scott C. Morgan contributed to this report.
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