The funeral for a Chicago Fire Department firefighter described as “loved by so many” and a “light of sunshine” will be held Monday.
Andrew “Drew” Price, 39, died last week after succumbing to “significant injuries” suffered while battling a blaze in Lincoln Park. Price fell through a shaft on the roof of a four-story building, at 2430-2432 N. Lincoln Ave., which contains the Lincoln Station restaurant on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors.
Monday’s funeral will take place at the Navy Pier Grand Ballroom, starting with a private visitation at 9 a.m. A public visitation begins at 10 a.m., with a CFD walk-through at 11:30 a.m. A televised public service is scheduled to start at noon.
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Price joined the Fire Department in 2009 and was an instructor at the academy. He was the fourth firefighter to die in the line of duty in Chicago this year.
Price’s sister-in-law, Vanessa Mohr, started a GoFundMe to support his family, which has raised nearly $75,000. She wrote that Price was a devoted husband, son, brother, uncle and friend, who embodied a “just chill life, always encouraging others to appreciate the little things.”
“He taught us to love harder, act kinder, and search for joy in every moment,” she wrote.