North Shore Death Notices: March 22 To March 28

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

Sonya Frances Saxton LaMarr, 88, Highland Park
Service March 31

Jerome M. Stachniw, 94, Chicago
Visitation April 9, service April 10

Wallace M. Hall, 96, Northbrook
Service April 10

Eileen M. Shiess née Mallon, 90, Vernon Hills

Terry L. Hasek, 75, Lake Forest

Jerard E. Kunz, 69, Deerfield

Reuland & Turnbough Funeral Home, 1407 N. Western Ave. in Lake Forest

Richard G. "Dick" Thomas, 85, Venice, Florida

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Ann Schmidt Carton, 91, Lake Forest

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

Alexander Tolmatsky, 59, Deerfield
Service March 30

Sol Melamed, 87, Round Lake Beach
Service April 1

Anne Horwitz née Goldberg, 99, Deerfield

Walter S. Roth, 95, Deerfield

Rosalyn "Roz" Blankstein née Barnett, 92, Chicago

Michael Burnstine, 91, Stuart, Florida

Lucille Hecht, 89, Chicago

Bob Aaron Berlin, 88, Chicago

Mona Axelrod Coleman, 88, Highland Park

Diane Schwartz, 85, Skokie

Lorrie Weinberg née Cornick, 81, Wheeling

Jacob Brodizky, 78, Wheeling

Mark Shamberg, 68, Chicago

Russell Allen Astor, 50, Northbrook

Alexander Jordan Gelperin, 34, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Mary Marilyn Hennessy, 88, Park Ridge
Service March 30

Howard Jerome Sweeney, 94, Northbrook
Service April 3

John “Jay” Prendergast Bourke, 77, Huntley
Service April 8

Mildred Jean Carlson, 98, Evanston

Dolores Mary Kapov née Sorenson, 97, Glenview

Jacqueline S. Barnes, 95, Kenilworth

Kathleen "Kay" Muldoon, 94, Glenview

Gerald Patrick Deppe, 93, Evanston

Stella Mash, 90, Skokie

Nancy E. Girard née Aiken, 88, of Evanston

Mary G. Lerps née Oldershaw, 87, Kailua, Hawaii

John Joseph "Jay" Moroney, 82, Chicago

Arlette Morcos, 74, Skokie

William Conrad "Bill" Campbell, 70, Evanston

Tina Marie Swanson née Williams, 56, Chicago

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Lige A. Fletter, 14, Chicago
Service March 31

Hilteray McGhee, 73, Skokie

William Blinn “Will” Hall, 49, Glencoe

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave., in Evanston

Sandra Mims, 70, Evanston
Service March 30

Crystal Neverdon, 47, Chicago
Visitation April 1, service April 2

Kathy Lynn Haith, 56, Antioch
Service April 3

Brakki Lamont Smith, 60, Evanston

Michael Wilmore, 47, Evanston

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

Gale Oliver Johnson, 84, Northbrook

Peter G. Hastings, 80, Glenview

Mary Kay Plantan, 62, Glenview

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Joseph Buscemi, 94, Niles

Reynald J. Berube, 77, Rockford

Nyla Isabella Vernon, 11, Glenview

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

Tatyana Kaplinsky, 89, Chicago

Featured Obituary:

Husband, Father, Uncle, Grandfather, Great Grandfather
Committed Teacher, Innovator, and Pioneer in Orthopaedic Arthroscopy and Education

Sweeney, Howard Jerome, MD, age 94, was born on June 21, 1926 to Edward and Stella (Cigrand) Sweeney in Chicago. A world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon and Northwestern University Wildcats’ team doctor, Howard’s remarkable life was guided by love of family and medicine.

He was married to Kathleen Patricia Power, the love of his life, for 65 wonderful years until she passed in 2014. They created a beautiful, loving family, raising their seven children and three nieces whom they loved as their own: the late Eileen (Larry Johnston) Sweeney of Washington, D.C., Gail (the late David) Ghere of Stillwater, MN, Patrick (Sharon Brown-Sweeney) Sweeney of Flossmoor, Maureen (Corinne Kawecki) Sweeney of Evanston, Laura (John) Kelly of Northbrook, Carolyn (Steve) Luczak of Rockford, Timothy Sweeney of Northbrook, Kathy Greene of River Grove, Sandy (Timothy) Whaley of Yorkville, Michael Sweeney of Glenview and daughter-in-law Margy Sweeney of Evanston. He was a warm and generous “Grandpa” to his 21 grandchildren, Erin, Edward, Christopher, Matthew, Sean, Timothy, Daniel, Kate, Shannon, Tricia, Megan, Brendan, Taylor, Maura, Nikki, Morgan, Nina, Maddie, Emma, Benjamin, and Clare; and “Papa” to his 12 great-grandchildren.

Howard attended Northwestern University as an undergraduate and medical student. He served in the Army in Japan near the end of World War II. He enjoyed a distinguished career as an orthopaedic surgeon at Evanston Hospital from 1957 until 2002, also teaching at Northwestern Medical School during that time. In 2007, he was inducted into the Northwestern Athletic Hall of Fame after acting as team doctor beginning in 1964 and Head Team Physician from 1984 to 2002. He was described during the induction ceremony as “passionate, caring, ethical and wise,” words true both personally and professionally. Howard was a Clinical Associate Professor at University of Chicago Medical School from 2009-2021.

Dedicated to a lifetime of service and teaching, Howard was honored to serve as Chairman of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Evanston Northwestern Health Care; president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America; president of the Irish-American Orthopaedic Association; and a founder and president of the Orthopaedic Learning Center. After his retirement in 2002, he founded the Global Arthroscopy Foundation to connect doctors in sixteen different developing countries with arthroscopic surgery training, mentorship, and supplies. In 2019, when Howard stopped teaching, One World Surgery took on the mission of the Global Arthroscopy Foundation. Throughout his life he explored the potential of new technologies, including most recently virtual reality, to improve arthroscopic surgery.

Howard loved his large family. In the 1960’s, he built a trailer for annual camping trips throughout the western USA including a 1969 trip driving the unpaved ALCAN highway to Alaska with Kathleen and seven children in a Mercury station wagon. He rarely missed a Wildcat football game (at home or on the road) and never missed Christmas morning with his family—even flying home for the holiday while the Wildcats were in California training for the 1996 Rose Bowl. He delighted his grandchildren by running his model trains around the house. He never failed to cry when reciting the Irish Blessing at family weddings, most recently by video for a granddaughter’s wedding last fall; his love for family always shone through.

Send obituaries and images to your Patch to be included in future editions: Deerfield, Evanston, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff-Lake Forest, Niles-Morton Grove, Northbrook, Skokie, Winnetka-Glencoe-Northbrook, Wilmette-Kenilworth

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