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Virginia McCaskey always seemed as comfortable with ordinary folks as she was with the most powerful people in the NFL.
The Bears matriarch herself was both, and her funeral mass Wednesday morning at St Emily Catholic Church in Mount Prospect reflected it.
Guests arrived on private jets and in the back of darkened towncars. Some came from the neighborhood — the church is about a mile from where she and late husband Ed raised 11 children in Des Plaines after moving there in 1949 — and others from across the country.