North Shore Death Notices: March 29 To April 4

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

Wallace M. “Wally” Hall, 96, Northbrook
Service April 10

Giovanni “John” F. DeRose, 84 , Highland Park
Visitation April 11, service April 12

Patricia Mautner née Krause, 93, Deerfield

Dante Picchietti, 88, Highland Park

Jacqueline Blatchford, 86, Lake Forest

Janice Margaret Badamo née Opheim, 81, Skokie

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood and 11 West Belvidere Road in Grayslake

Linda Lee Torbik, 77, Chicago

D'iorr Zariah Ka'diya Holman, 3 months, Round Lake
Service April 8

Randy Dale Shrewsbury Sr., 61, Round Lake Beach
Service April 9

Ronald Edward Lovelace, 57, Burbank
Service April 10

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Patricia “Patti” Potts Lane, 82, Lake Forest

Catherine King Tucker, 79, Lake Forest

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

Nancy R. Borenstein, 65, Buffalo Grove
Service April 7

Jeany Soshnik, 67, Chicago
Service April 7

Deborah Konovsky, Melrose Park
Service April 7

Edwin C. Sigel, 93, Northbrook
Service April 8

Walter S. Roth, 95, Deerfield

Johnny Anne Muslin, 94, Northbrook

Mayya Kutman, 91, Arlington Heights

Melvin Siegel, 91, Lincolnwood

Gita Rogow, 90, Chicago

Ruthe R. Vogel, 90, Fox Lake

Jane Perel, 88, Skokie

Lester Block, 85, Vernon Hills

Frederick Arnold Stevens, 85, Buffalo Grove

Lorrie Weinberg née Cornick, 81, Wheeling

Joel "Yoel" Mauer, 70, Skokie

Linda Krinsky, 58, McHenry

Jeffrey Aaron Kleinberg, 39, Elmhurst

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Edward Woltman, 96, Evanston
Service April 9

Thomas William O'Brien, 84, Glenview
Service April 9

Conrad Kutil Tyrrell, 25, Elgin
Service April 13

Frank W. Fitch, 91, Chicago

Virginia Mary Hoynes née Boyle, 88, Winnetka

Richard J. Price, 82, Northbrook

Kurt M. Miller, 56, Wilmette

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Clayton S. “Pat” Condon, 102, Skokie
Services pending

Manfred J. Gursch, 89, Skokie

Barbara A. Zbilut née Wesley, 70, Skokie

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

Devon Lewis, 53, Evanston
Visitation April 9, service April 10

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Betty Ellis, 93, Evanston

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

Margaret N. Ayres, 83, Glenview
Service April 10

Elizabeth “Betty” Urbanowski Hibben, 83, Northbrook
Service April

Edna Marjorie Theriault, 85, Glenview
Visitation April 13, service April 14

Stella Tobis née Synowiec, 92, Northbrook

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Anthony Difiglio, 94, Skokie
Service April 7

Vincent Kopinski, 91, Morton Grove
Service April 8

Gerri Christiansen née Sherman, 79, Grayslake

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

Sharon Cohen, 68, Chicago
Service April 13

Elaine Dunn Engel, 96, Wilmette

Charles S. Ecanow, 95, Northbrook

Lawrence “Larry” E. Glick, 90, Bannockburn

David L. Abrams, 87, Winnetka

Deena Leah Goldstein, 84, Glenview

Alan David Sporn, 75, Flossmoor

Featured Obituary:

Catherine King Tucker, 79, of Lake Forest, IL passed away on March 31, 2021. She was born on December 13, 1941 in Evanston, IL to Charles and Catherine (nee Morley) King.

Cathy graduated from New Trier High School in 1959; she went on to become a graduate of Bradford Jr. College, Catherine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York and the Toby Colburn School of Fashion Design in New York. She started her career as an Executive Trainee at Carson, Pirie, Scott in Chicago where she met her husband Bert Tucker. After they were married, she became Secretary for the President of the First National Bank of Winnetka. Later she volunteered at the Lake Forest Senior Center and soon she was hired as a secretary where she worked for thirteen years.

Cathy was a dedicated member of many different organizations throughout her life; she was a member of the Evanston Jr. League where she volunteered at the Thrift House. Cathy was a dedicated member of the Northshore chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) for over 50 years. She served as Regent with distinction of the North Shore Chapter NSDAR from 2006-2010 and was named Honorary Regent in 2019. During Cathy’s Regency the North Shore Chapter was awarded a silver tray by Illinois State for first place in New Membership Gain category. The Illinois State Outstanding National Defense Award was granted to North Shore Chapter for contributing to the insurgency fight in Afghanistan by sending coats and shoes to Afghan children. Cathy was instrumental in partnering with Village Quilters to successfully make wheelchair quilts which were donated to veterans at Hines Veterans Hospital and Lovell Hospital at Great Lakes. Many Bingo parties for veterans, Benefit Luncheons, American History Essay & Good Citizen Honorees for Student’s awards were successful endeavors through Cathy. Each of which reached the educational, historic, and patriotic goals of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

Cathy also was an active member of the Village Quilters of Lake Bluff. Her passion for quilting met a broad audience from family, grandchildren, friends, veterans and being a member of two quilting Bee’s. She quilted for the Quilts of Valor program, veterans’ hospitals and being a prolific quilter for many years she showed quilts in the Village Quilters Quilt show biannually.

When her three sons joined Cub Scouts she volunteered as a Den Leader and Den Leader Coach. When her sons moved into Boy Scout Troop 46 in Lake Forest, she became a Membership Chair on the Troop Committee.

Cathy was chair of the New Trier High School Class of 1959, 50th Reunion and continued as chair for the 55th and the 60th reunions.

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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