As a kid playing softball in the parking lot near her family’s South Shore home, and one of the only girls, Deneterius “Dee” Bey refused to join the team she was picked to be on unless her younger brother, Lee, who was barely old enough to join in, could play, too.

As an adult, after opening a business in Rolling Meadows that developed and maintained software for credit unions, she hired her sister Claudette Caldwell’s kids for summertime positions, a move that proved integral in their success later in life.

And, as a resident of the care facility The Pearl of Rolling Meadows, where Ms. Bey spent the last two decades following a diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis, which ravaged her body but not her mind, she was known as a helper who other residents would seek out when they had problems.

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