When did Fitness instructor Jo Herzog, of Park Ridge, IL, pass on
Executive summary
Public records show Josephine Ann “Jo” Herzog of Park Ridge — identified in local notices as a fitness instructor and beloved community member — was the subject of a death notice published July 31, 2007, with a funeral scheduled for August 1, 2007; the death notice lists her age as 57 [1]. Local Park District materials commemorate a Jo Herzog in connection with a memorial Thanksgiving Day workout, but those materials do not supply an explicit date of death beyond the 2007 obituary record [2].
1. The newspaper record: obituary publication and funeral date
The Chicago Tribune printed a death notice titled “JOSEPHINE ANN HERZOG” that was originally published July 31, 2007, and it lists a funeral Mass scheduled for Wednesday, August 1 [1]; the notice identifies Josephine Ann “Jo” Herzog as age 57 and lists surviving family members [1]. The available Tribune item therefore establishes the contemporaneous public record: the obituary was published on July 31, 2007, and the funeral service occurred on August 1, 2007 [1].
2. What the obituary does and does not say about the date of death
The Tribune death notice provides an obituary publication date and a funeral date but does not explicitly state the precise calendar date on which Jo Herzog died in the text snippets available in the search results [1]. Because the published obituary and the funeral date are explicit in the record, those are the strongest documentary anchors for reporting; the exact date of death is not present in the excerpted notice provided here [1].
3. Corroborating local memory: Park District commemoration
The Park District of Park Ridge lists a “Jo Herzog Memorial Thanksgiving Day Workout,” indicating that the local parks agency and community have memorialized her through programming, which confirms community recognition of her legacy but does not supply a death date or contradict the obituary record [2]. This local commemoration supports the identification of Jo Herzog as a locally known fitness instructor but is silent on the precise day she passed.
4. Archival and obituary aggregation sources: breadth but not a different date
Obituary aggregators and archives — Legacy.com, GenealogyBank, ObitsArchive and local funeral-home pages — are cited in search results as repositories for Park Ridge obituaries and death notices, but the specific Chicago Tribune death notice remains the clearest primary public notice available in the provided reporting [3] [4] [5]. None of the supplied aggregator snippets present a different date of death for Jo Herzog in the material provided to this report [3] [4] [5].
5. How to interpret the public record and limitations of available reporting
Given the available sources, the defensible public conclusion is that Jo Herzog’s obituary was published July 31, 2007, and her funeral was scheduled August 1, 2007 — these are the verifiable dates in the public record as presented here [1]. The precise calendar date of her passing is not explicitly included in the provided obituary excerpt, and no other source among those supplied gives a specific death date; therefore reporting must avoid inventing a date that the sources do not supply [1] [2].
6. Final assessment: answer to the question asked
When did fitness instructor Jo Herzog of Park Ridge, IL, pass on? The most authoritative public item available in these sources is the Chicago Tribune death notice published July 31, 2007, which lists a funeral for August 1, 2007, and states her age as 57; the exact date of death is not specified in the provided reporting [1]. For a precise death date beyond the obituary publication and funeral dates, consultation of the full obituary text, funeral-home records, or a death certificate would be necessary; those documents are not included in the material provided here [1] [2].