North Shore Death Notices: March 1 To March 7

The following death notices were added to funeral homes serving the North Shore area in the past week. Those homes have provided obituaries for some of those that have passed away recently. Patch offers condolences to their loved ones, links to their obituaries and notices of upcoming services below.

Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home, 1787 Deerfield Road in Highland Park

Elena Nasta, 97, Highland Park

Kathleen Soprani, 91, Deerfield

Elizabeth H. Silverman, 89, Deerfield

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Peter Godfrey Danis, 89, Lake Forest
Service March 13

Paul John Gerlach, 88, Lake Forest

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie and 195 N. Buffalo Grove Road in Buffalo Grove

Anita Rubenstein née Zevin, 90, Plainfield
Service March 11

Joyce June Kaiser née Fiala, 89, Highland Park
Service March 12

Stacey Zisook Robinson, 59, Skokie
Service March 12

Richard Snow, 88, Lincolnwood
Service March 12

Lillian R. Miller née Eisenstein, 96, Skokie

Irina Lekhtman, 93, Niles

Marion Rukin née Greenberg, 90, Lincolnshire

Gloria Tulsa Altshuler, 89, Chicago

Youssef Amrami, 89, Skokie

Joan P. Moss née Bloomenfeld, 89, Morton Grove

Edward H. Robinson, 89, Buffalo Grove

Melvin "Mel" D. Druckman, 83, Wheeling

Sarah Wolfson, 82, Chicago

Maxine J. Baker née Bagel, 77, Niles

Mark Goldberg, 74, Buffalo Grove

Steven Lee Zelickman, 73, Des Plaines

Eugeniusz Boltuc, 71, Buffalo Grove

Robert Charles Carleton, 71, Elgin

Peggy Shapiro, 64, Chicago

Cheryl L. Tarragano née Harris, 57, Buffalo Grove

Semen Ostrovskiy, 43, Chicago

Ruth Rosen, Lincolnwood

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Bill Smith, 85, Glenview
Service March 11

Marlene B. McCauley, 90, Evanston
Service March 12

Audrey M. Hackett, 94, Glenview

Robert C. "Bob" Erzinger, 88, Winnetka

Paul C. Govert, 81, Northbrook

Otto H. Maurer, 79, Winnetka

Harvey F. Wagley, 79, Golf

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Richard A. Lindroth, 68, Skokie
Service March 13

Mary A. Jaron née Braidich, 71, Skokie
Service March 11

Rosa M. Mastro née Lamarca, 92, Skokie

Prabjot Kaur Soin, 75, Glenview

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Rose Keith née Helbling, 100, Morton Grove
Service May 7

Lucille Veronica Gabrovich, 99, Glenview

Nancy Fischer, 87, Glenview

Paul L. Basa, 57, Evanston

N. H. Scott & Hanekamp Funeral Home, 1240 Waukegan Road in Glenview

Jacquelyn Elizabeth Dresmal, 87, Glenview

Shirley J. Omartian née Evans, 84, Glenview

Annette Kulle, 82, Northbrook

Bill Lovell, 71, Evanston

Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, 111 Skokie Blvd. in Wilmette

Gerhard Jacoby, 86, Lincolnshire
Service March 10

Allen Hirschfield, 93, Skokie

Vladimir Reznikov, 59, Glenview

Featured Obituary:

Bill Lovell, aged 71, died suddenly on Tuesday, March 2. After enjoying eight years working for Mitsubishi Company in New York City, he moved to Evanston. He then worked at New Trier High School from 1983 to December 2017 as both a paraprofessional and for many years as a coach of both girls’ softball and basketball. He enjoyed the support of Jan Borja, principal at New Trier Northfield, and with her encouragement was happy and proud to develop protocols for study halls and for other kinds of student encounters, some of which are still used. He felt that especially at a school like New Trier, students needed “down” time and quiet.

The second of four children of a Presbyterian minister and a working mother, Bill was always the ringmaster, the risk-taker, the comedian, and in many ways the communicator to and glue of his family. Flathead Lake in Montana is where the family gathered for many years, with Bill and his brother Jim acting as troubadors for the family and others staying at what was then Hidden Rock Resort. In fact, one year after a campfire filled with family as well as solo singing and great guitar playing, one group of visitors asked how Bill could be hired out, assuming he was the paid, professional performer for the “resort.”

He loved helping people and was exceedingly generous with both time and his limited funds. After retirement, he treated some of his parapro team members to lunch several times. Any time a need arose, Bill always wanted to find a way to help. In the last few months, every time he went shopping with his sister, he insisted on paying for her groceries as well as his to show his gratitude for her help.

Bill was a gifted athlete, playing both soccer and baseball in college. In soccer, his height and great speed, along with skills honed from a year in Germany as a ten-year old, served him well, and he led his Carleton College soccer team to victories around the Midwest. That love of sports and a knack for connecting with kids also resulted in years of coaching at New Trier, both for the summer “fun” games, where he worked with children between six to ten years of age, as well as his official coaching at New Trier. Students and children were always the first to recognize that beneath his stern demeanor lay a loving heart, an infectious sense of humor, and a profound commitment to fairness.

His music, though, was quintessential to him. Over the past sixty years, he took it upon himself to educate his siblings, nieces, nephews and others about musicians they needed to hear, somehow staying in tune even with those much younger than he. Not only did music bring him and others joy, he found it a major source of connection with others. He often took his mini-Bose speaker to work to share pieces with others, including his classical favorite, Mozart’s second piano concerto.

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