By Sarah and Carrie Sherman
Lawrence H. “Skip” Sherman was born Oct. 25, 1926, in Chicago, Ill. He died of a sudden illness at Memorial Hospital on Aug. 5, 2021. He was just shy of his 95th birthday.
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