Mabel Warnke

From Encyclopedia of Des Plaines

After graduating from Maine Township High School in 1921, Mabel Warnke spent twenty-five years writing a weekly news column on East Maine and Niles for the Cook County Herald, the predecessor publication to the Daily Herald. Warnke's writing career extended beyond journalism. She self-published four books about her world travels, a biography of her late daughter, and contributed poems to several editions of New Voices in American Poetry.


Steil family
Christina Kath
(1879-1951)
George Steil
(1874-1939)
Elmer Steil
(1904-1984)
Mabel Sophie Steil
(1904-2004)
Albert J. Warnke
(1905-1996)