Judith Ann Milewski, age 72, of Barrington, IL, passed away on Thursday August 7, 2025, at her home.  Three Memorial Services will be held.  The first Memorial Service will be in Barrington, IL at St. Anne’s Church on September 6, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.  The second Memorial Service will be held in Thorp, WI at St. Bernard-St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church on October 11, 2025 at 11 a.m.  The third Memorial Service will be held as part of the Dominican University Memorial Mass on November 2, 2025 at 11 a.m. 

     Born February 23, 1953 in Rolling Meadows, IL, Judith was one of 3 children born to Lenard Milewski, an award winning and notable builder in the Chicago area featured in Chicago Home and Gardens and Architectural Digest and Elizabeth Milewski (nee Galaudet) a Daughter of the American Revolution who founded the nonprofit the Milewski Nature Fund educating about a balance between using our natural resources as in agricultural pursuits and conserving our natural resources.  Judith is survived by her twin 16-year-olds Daniel and Elliott Milewski and her two siblings, Michael Milewski, who continues his father’s work as a builder adding artist and sustainable housing to his CV and Victoria Milewski, a MENSA member and an internationally acclaimed artist. Judith was a dedicated mother who believed in her children’s potential and their hereditary genius from the Galaudet and Milewski families.  She was an independent thinker, liberated spirit and classic debater.  Her values of family and independence will remain an inspiration for all who knew her. 

     Judith began her professional career during the Vietnam War as part of the Pentagon’s Casualty Notification Team program which sent a team to fallen military members’ families to tell them of their loss and apprise them of the support on offer.  This was a new program spearheaded by Julia Compton Moore who thought the simple telegram that was previously sent to families was not enough to honor the service of fallen soldiers.  The Notification experience led Judith to receive a Bachelor of Arts with a Sociology Major in 1974 from Loyola University Chicago after completing her Associate in the Arts Degree from William Rainey Harper College in Palatine in 1972.  After the notifications ended with the end of the war, Judith received a paralegal certificate from Roosevelt University in order to pay for law school; however, after working at law firms in Chicago, Judith found her talents were more grounded in working behind the scenes with the law, “Where the real law takes place,” she would say.  This decision led her to receive her Masters Degree in Business Administration from Dominican University in 1983 which allowed Judith to manage large paralegal staffs for major law firms in Chicago like Kirkland and Ellis, Winston & Strawn and Schiff Hardin managing teams of 20-30 people working on national and international court cases.  Then in 2003 Judith volunteered to be the treasurer for the Milewski Nature Fund (MNF), a 501-C3 not for profit established by her mother Elizabeth Milewski in order to further the family’s work in educating about the balance between use of our natural resources—working with agriculture; and conservation of our natural resources—by supporting things like MNF’s “Give back to nature” forest and Walking Education Trails. 

Then, when most people would be thinking of retiring and relaxing, Judith decided to bring two children into this world in 2009, twins Daniel and Elliott; living frugally and with the intention of seeing her children graduate from a university.  Sadly, this dream was not to be; subsequently, Daniel and Elliott will be cared for by their uncle Michael Milewski and his sister and their aunt, Victoria Milewski, working with the twins to secure the future’s they dream about after graduating from the universities which will help them achieve those dreams. 

     In lieu of flowers please consider making donations, in care of Michael Milewski, to either the twins’ current financial needs in staying in Barrington, IL to finish school in the district they have been schooled in since first grade, or to the twin’s college fund.  You can also make a tax-deductible donation to the Milewski Nature Fund, in care of the Milewski Nature Fund.  If you choose one of these three, please specify which one you are donating to; for a donation to MNF please advise where to send our written acknowledgment substantiating your donation for your tax purposes.