North Shore Death Notice: April 9 To April 15

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

Thomas Parfitt, 93, Buffalo Grove

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

Robert Joseph Higgins, 84, Grayslake

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

James B. Connor, 89, Lake Forest

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

Harold A. Kaufman, 92, Chicago
Service April 16

Fern Gloria Bernstein née Holtzman, 91, Arlington Heights
Service April 17

Doris Horvitz née Marshak, 97, Evanston

Boris Kapelyan, 65, Des Plaines

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Antonia Beier, 86, Evanston
Service April 18

Allan Osmond Ellis, 87, Evanston
Visitation April 19, service April 20

Donald William Hanigan, 86, Winnetka
Service April 30

Joseph “Joe Ski” Spychalski, 90, Winnetka

Barbara Enid Reighard, 61, Glenview

Lee Ann Rossi née Floersch, 56, Northfield

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Robert T. “Blackhawk Bob” Gertenrich, 77, Skokie
Service April 16

Josef Hinterhauser, 87, Chicago
Service April 18

Thompson Funeral & Cremation Services, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Donald Window Fowler, 65, Evanston

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

William Taylor Barker, 87, Wilmette

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

Donald Edward Smason, 91, Lincolnwood

Samuil Glezer, 69, Chicago

Stacy Fran Gelman née Bromberg, 65, Buffalo Grove

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

Oroljav Tumen, 80, Mongolia

Featured Obituary:

Allan Osmond Ellis, age 87, of Evanston, IL passed away on April 11, 2024. Born in Bickersteth Parish of St. James Jamaica on September 4, 1936 to Alfred and Christiana Ellis, Allan earned a track scholarship to Philander Smith College in 1957. He transferred to Arkansas State and graduated with a degree in Agronomy and a minor in Chemistry. After earning a Masters at DePaul University, he became a teacher in the Evanston Public School System where he taught at Chute Middle School for over 25 years.

He was fiercely competitive regardless of the game, winning countless tennis trophies, poker matches, and games of spoons, heckling his grandchildren in process. He liked to win and he liked to gloat. It was not at all uncommon for him to take his students out to the basketball court or the track for an impromptu challenge. Allan made a big impression on his students, going beyond math lessons to engage them on conversations to prepare them for life. His former student’s success was a source of joy for him.

A fiercely proud and inspirational man, his greatest pride was the success of his children and grandchildren. He loved his family beyond all else and wanted the best for them.

Obituaries and images may be submitted to your Patch for publication: Deerfield, Evanston, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff-Lake Forest, Niles-Morton Grove, Northbrook, Skokie, Winnetka-Glencoe-Northfield, Wilmette-Kenilworth

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