who died at age 70 of a heart attack at the family home. (United Press International) Virginia McCaskey sits in the stands with her grandson, 11-month-old John McCaskey, on May 25, 1985 during the ...

Virginia McCaskey was a devout Catholic who often watched games with a rosary in one hand. She lived the last years of her life in a modest home in Des Plaines and attended mass every day for many ...

George Halas, left, and Ed Rozy, Chicago Bears trainer, arrive home to O’Hare International Airport from Rome, Italy, on May 2, 1968. They are greeted by Halas’ daughter Virginia McCaskey ...

George Halas, left, and Ed Rozy, Chicago Bears trainer, arrive home at O’Hare International Airport from Rome on May 2, 1968. They are greeted by Halas’ daughter Virginia McCaskey, center.

The plan is for Virginia McCaskey to go to home games, as well. The pandemic has been taxing on the entire McCaskey family. George said Thursday was the second day since mid-March when Halas Hall ...

Virginia McCaskey, the accidental matriarch of the ... of a head coach in mid-season and fans chanting during the last home game, "Sell the team!" But it ended on an up note, and on her birthday ...

Virginia Halas McCaskey, the longtime owner and matriarch of the Chicago Bears, died Thursday at 102, the team announced in a news release.

"And I went home that night and really worried about ... "While we are sad, we are comforted knowing Virginia Halas McCaskey lived a long, full, faith-filled life and is now with the love of ...

She was born Virginia Marion Halas in Chicago ... and I have to make sure that I don't disappoint." McCaskey attended every Bears game, home and away. “I’m slow, but I’m grateful for what ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Virginia Halas McCaskey, the matriarch of the Bears ... raised 11 children in an unassuming Des Plaines home. After her brother, George “Mugs” Halas Jr., died ...

Virginia Halas McCaskey, owner of the Chicago Bears and ... While McCaskey was a stay-at-home mother, her husband began working with the Bears at his father-in-law's request in 1967.