Obituaries
Mailman Dies On The Job in Northbrook
Rudy Alex Loosa was known as the "best mailman ever" by residents of his longtime Route 8 in Northbrook.
NORTHBROOK, IL - A U.S. Postal Service carrier popular in Northbrook and one dubbed “the best mailman ever” died while on the job Saturday.
Rudy Alex Loosa, 59, of Buffalo Grove was working his Northbrook Route 8 when he collapsed in his truck, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Loosa was described by Northbrook resident Scott Cawley in the Tribune article as “the quintessential mailman some of us may remember from 1950s television.”
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“Where everybody knew the mailman, knew the milkman and they knew about you and your family, knew about your losses, your celebrations, your victories.”
Loosa walked the Northbrook Route 8 for nearly two decades.
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"He would stop and play catch and make snowmen, and ask about graduations," said, Devon Roane, a Northbrook woman who lives on Route 8. "He truly cared about people. He wasn't just pretending, he was genuinely interested in what you were saying.”
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