Don Savage was committed to his family and the Chicago Bears. The oldest and longest-serving Bears season ticket holder Mr. Savage died Dec. 11 at 106. Ginny Warren, his daughter, said her father had Bears season tickets since 1947. “It didn’t matter how hard it was to get there, he just had to be there,” she said. The TV wasn’t his thing. It was about crowding.
He loved sports, but the Bears were his passion.” No one admired Mr. Savage’s Bears passion more than team chairman George H. McCaskey. “Don’s loyalty to the Bears was legendary,” McCaskey added. His Season Ticket Holder tenure was among the longest in Bears history. We appreciate his Bears loyalty and will miss him.
Our condolences to his family.” Mr. Savage was devoted beyond Bears. His wife, Theresa, died in 2015 at 92 after 72 years of marriage. He worked at Gateway Building Products for 60 years, starting in the mailroom and retiring as a vice president at 80 in 1997. Mr. Savage is a Chicago 16-inch Softball Hall of Famer. Between 1935 and 2013, he played or managed in 35 senior leagues in Chicago and the suburbs, earning 40 titles in softball.
His bio on the Chicago 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame website states that he played a game with his right wrist in a cast because his team was short a guy and got two hits to win a championship.
Mr. Savage attended North Side Chicago’s Kelvyn Park High School. A chief usher at Queen of All Saints Parish for decades, he lived in Sauganash, Chicago, for 70 years.
