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Chicago Fire Department paramedic Robert Truevillian was remembered Monday as a devoted family man, a zealous Christian and a mentor to many.
“He was extremely proud of us,” Kennedy Truevillian, one of his four children, said during a service at Russo’s Hillside Chapels in Hillside. “He always asked us to send him pictures so he could show his buddies at the firehouse.”
Others remembered how he’d come home from a grueling 24-hour shift then rush off to make it in time to one of his children’s Christmas plays or a school dance.
Truevillian, 55, joined the Chicago Fire Department in 2000 and was assigned to ambulance 71, which operates out of 10458 S. Hoxie Ave. in South Deering.