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Surrounded by his children, Tony Basche peacefully passed away on October 30t, 2024 at the age of 83. Welcoming heaven’s newest Eagle Scout was his beloved wife Roberta, his brother Bob, and his father Robert and mother Vivian. Tony was born in Chicago and was a proud graduate of Notre Dame University. A first lieutenant in the U.S Army, Tony also spent time in his youth. as an altar boy and National Honor Society member. A constant throughout his life was a love of Notre Dame football.
An “authentic advertising “Mad Men”, Tony spent the majority of his professional career as a part of the Chicago Michigan Avenue advertising world where he worked on award winning campaigns for Bactine, Clear Eyes, Wrigley Chewing Gums, and Pepsi to name a few. After several years in Phoenix consumer marketing, Tony enjoyed a late career encore as the head of marketing for the Phoenix Art Museum.
Tony was a resident of Fountain Hills for over thirty years. Known for their “wanderlust” adventures across America, Tony and his wife loved camping, hiking, and four-wheel adventures across the American West. Favorite spots Tony frequented included Door County Wisconsin and Colorado’s San Juan Mountains.
A member of the “Legends in their own minds” Deerfield Seven, Tony enjoyed a lifelong friendship with his high school buddies whose adolescent hijinks took them into their eighties and saw them regularly get together even as they may have lost a few miles on their fastballs.
As a father his sense of humor and compassion were driving beliefs he instilled into his children. His bewildering ability to proclaim a fake scientific or academic expertise he didn’t have, provided his children with life skills to question and authenticate everything. He proudly reveled in his grandchildren’s academic and athletic adventures. He is survived by his daughters Andrea and Danielle, son John, his son-in laws Luke and Joe, daughter in-law Lynne, sister in-law Susan, his grandchildren Michelina, Jack, Andrea, Luke, Charlie, and Gianna, and his good friend and sister in-law Marsha.
While he is currently organizing a planned group hike to the first waterfall trail that he has found the topography maps for in the Kingdom of Heaven, we ask you to keep his grieving family in your hearts.
