Emily A. Savasky, 98, passed away at her home on Sunday, December 15, 2019. Emily was born in Chicago on March 23, 1921 to Edward and Harriet (nee: Kosiedowski) Schleichert. At 98, Emily lived all the major events of the 20th century. Her young life witnessed the organized gang warfare of Prohibition. She babysat her siblings while her parents drove her grandparents home and were caught in the St. Valentine's day massacre. When her father lost his job due to the Great Depression, Emily had to forgo a college education and get a job to supplement the family's income. She worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She met her husband, Joseph S. Savasky, during wartime on a train returning to Chicago from the Wisconsin Dells when he pulled rank on a soldier to have him give her a seat. After the war and marriage, Emily and Joseph moved to Canton, OH to resume his vending machine business where she acted as his bookkeeper and accountant. Children came quickly. Six were born in 11 years. And Emily added chief cook and bottle washer to her resume. In 1958, Joseph died suddenly. Emily was 37, had a high school education, six children under the age of ten, five of them boys, and keys to a car she couldn't drive. The first thing she did was get a driver's license. She took lessons in the hills of Ohio in a car with a standard transmission. To hear her tell it, she fainted when she passed the road test. The next year she moved to Michigan to be closer to her sister and the quality of life and opportunity that that state afforded her children. It was in Midland, MI that, as a single parent, she raised her family, keeping them all together, insisting on excellent grades and behavior. She worried through the Vietnam War as her oldest son served in the Army and she awaited the lottery each year for several years to see if other sons would be drafted as well. As the children left home to pursue college and their careers, Emily began work as a special education aide at Carpenter School bringing her common sense child rearing approach to her new profession. It was from there that she retired. Many of her students came to visit her at her home in later years just to keep in touch. During the years she was also the rock on which her siblings depended as she guided her family through the deaths of a brother, a father, then nursed her own mother at end of life, and finally yet another brother. Emily moved to Racine, Wisconsin as older age required a closer connection to her own family and finally gave up driving at 89 relinquishing her wanderlust reluctantly. Emily had many interests and hobbies. She played piano and loved music. As a child she saved her streetcar fare and walked home in order to have money to buy sheet music. She liked to knit, sew, crochet and paint. She made porcelain dolls from beginning to end, pouring bisque into molds, firing and glazing the parts, assembling the cloth bodies and sewing the outfits. She was an avid reader and a lifelong learner. On her nightstand at her time of death, was The Notorious RBG. While Emily never "served" as such, she was as much a representation of "The Greatest Generation" as anyone who did. She played the unfair hand dealt her in life with intelligence, tenacity and courage. Her legacy after a century of living are the six successful children she leaves behind, and the six grandchildren with doctorates, and four with master's degrees. Also, the many special education children she nurtured and loved as her own and who remember her as theirs. Emily is survived by her six children, Steven Savasky, Gregory (Barb) Savasky, Mary Ann (Craig) Skold, Thomas Savasky, Michael (Sally) Savasky and Robert (Carol) Schleichert; 10 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren. She is further survived by nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her brothers Edward and Daniel, and sister Barbara Merica. Funeral services for Emily will be held at a later date. Internment will take place in Resurrection cemetery in Chicago, IL. In lieu of flowers, donations which support causes that were dear to Emily's heart would be appreciated. These include organizations supporting birds, bees and wildlife, feeding the hungry in American and the Native Americans.