Cara Zia, Our mother’s health is failing, and she needed to be moved from assisted living to a nursing home. She transferred to a dementia unit soon after, since her mental capacity is also rapidly declining. I live three hours away, and my other siblings are on opposite sides of the country. I visit her often but am getting burned out and could use some help. My sister doesn’t have any real money so as executor, I offered to have the estate pay for her airfare. She said she would rather wait until the holidays. My brother says he is …

Mario Cervi is the quintessential hard-working Italian immigrant who carved out a life for himself in the Chicago area. He was born in Alvito, a small town outside of Rome. When he was just 5 years old, he lost his father, who went missing in action during World War II. He began working as a barber at age 15, making him the youngest barber in the region. Cervi immigrated to America with his mother in 1955, landing on a Saturday and beginning work at a barbershop in the Galewood neighborhood on the following Monday. Cervi’s maternal family sponsored them, and …