Jeanie Kustok's Many Families Gathered for Her Funeral
"She was an angel," says her daughter as hundreds of family and friends of the slain schoolteacher from Orland Park met in Calumet City for a funeral Mass Thursday.
The day Jeanie Kustok died, the Orland Park woman's spirit followed her children. At Thursday's funeral Mass in Our Lady of Knock Catholic Church in Calumet City, Zak Kustok told mourners how he ordered a meal from a Panera restaurant with his family on the day his mother died. He ordered a turkey sandwich but received a tuna salad, instead. "Sarah said 'Every time mom and I went to Panera she ordered a tuna salad sandwich,'" Zak said. "If we didn't already know she was with us always, she wanted to make sure it was ingrained and sent that down." Recalling his mother's warmth and strength, the former Northwestern football star thanked attendees for being at the service and for stopping by Wednesday's visitation in Lansing to mourn with him…
