PETE HAYES: Ted Klasner was a stand-up guy who was both blessed and a blessing
Ted Klasner: Blessed and a blessing
Commentary Pete Hayes Telegraph Sports editor
June 23, 2021
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The late Ted Klasner in a 2012 Telegraph photo when he was named the Illinois Official of the Year in Girls Soccer Award from the National Federation of Officials Association. Klasner died May 25.Margie Barnes file photo | The Telegraph
Ted Klasner knew his time had come. With his heart about to give out, he told his wife, Pat, that he couldn’t hang on much longer. And when the end came and his great big heart stopped and the beeping monitor flat-lined, all his family was around him.