An 88-year-old Valparaiso man who was carjacked and run over by his own car Sunday died Friday at an Illinois hospital.

Jacint Calderazzo was on his way to Midway Airport when police say a Chicago man took his car.

Chicago police on Thursday charged Kenneth Starr, 33, of the 4800 block of West Congress Parkway in Chicago, with aggravated vehicular hijacking and attempted murder. The charges could be upgraded now that Calderazzo has died.

Calderazzo's daughter, Carmine Calderazzo, of Valparaiso, who was accompanying her father Sunday in Chicago, said she was inside the Walgreens in the 5000 block of South Cicero Avenue when she heard screams of "man down." She said she knew it was her father, who was waiting in the car.

He died Friday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill.

The Valparaiso man was even planning to marry the woman to whom he was once engaged 60 years earlier. But while on his way to Midway Airport on Sunday morning to pick up his girlfriend, Lillian Beattie, of Pennsylvania, he was carjacked and run over by his own car.

Carmine Calderazzo said it appears her father was getting something out of the back seat of the car when the suspect hopped in and took off, knocking Jacint Calderazzo down with the open car door. The suspect is believed to have then run over Jacint Calderazzo, she said.

At age 88, Jacint Calderazzo still played golf and enjoyed "great clothes, great food and great company."

Carmine Calderazzo said her father was well-loved and "never met anybody he didn't like."

Calderazzo remembers how her father, who retired at age 66 as superintendent of plant security at Midwest Steel in Portage, would come home sick to his stomach if he had to fire somebody. He would buy the fired workers hams, turkeys and other food because he knew they had families. He was very close with his own family.

"I don't think anybody ever loved their family as much as my dad," she said.

After retirement, Jacint Calderazzo worked for many years at David's Mens Clothier in Valparaiso. He was also an avid golfer, often hitting the links locally and in places like Florida, North Carolina and his native Pennsylvania. Carmine Calderazzo said her father once golfed with Bill Cosby in Acapulco, Mexico.

"That was his second love next to his family," she said of golfing.

He also loved photography, snapping "a million" pictures of his family.

Carmine Calderazzo said she took her father to Italy a couple of years ago, and he just cried at how beautiful and fun it was.

"His parents were from Italy, and he always wanted to go and never did," she said.

"I'm so glad now I did (take him)."

Jacint Calderazzo is survived by two other daughters, Barbara Klumpe, of Valparaiso; and Jane Calderazzo, of Wheeling, Ill. Carmine Calderazzo said the family is making funeral arrangements today at Dykes Funeral Home in Valparaiso.

"He loved life," she said, adding she will most remember her father's wonderful disposition.

"He lived alone (having lost his wife, Joan, 17 years ago) but never stopped."

Carmine Calderazzo praised Chicago police for using records from her cellular phone, which was taken during the carjacking, and other means to solve the case.