North Shore Death Notices: Aug. 15 To Aug. 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

Thomas Gayne, 74, Carbondale
Service Sept. 3

Dianne M. Viti, 90, Highland Park
Service Sept. 4

Charles James "Chuck" Caruso, 92, Deerfield

Norman Joseph Knuttel, 91, Spokane Valley, Washington

John A. Pavlovich, 84, Lake Forest

William C. “Billy” Aiston, 75, Lake Forest

Thomas Vernon Rucker, 70, Park Ridge

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

Sylvia H. MacFarlane, 76, Gurnee
Visitation Sept. 1, service Sept. 2

Avelina Mercado Bolton, 91, Lake Forest

Patrick D. Ginty, 83, Wilmette

Carol "G" A. Rychlee née Chrobak, 81, Antioch

Reynaldo Castro Familar, 81, San Bernardino

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Mary A. Quinn, 96

Robert Raymond Graham, 77, Lake Forest

Eric William Steckel, 75, Lake Forest

Yvonne Marie McCloskey, 71, Hoffman Estates

Thomas “Tom” Edward Ganfield, 60, Whitewater, Wisconsin

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

Eva Lakomiec Fasciano, 56, Chicago
Service Aug. 31

Karl F. Nagel, 84, Lake Forest

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

Leonard Robert Penn, 90, Chicago
Service Aug. 30

Devera Levinthal Gordon, 89, Boca Raton, Florida
Service Aug. 30

Sheila Helene Hollander née Trace, 78, Riverwoods
Service Aug. 30

Debra Gleason, 64, Chicago
Service Aug. 30

Marian E. Scheffler, 99, Chicago
Service Sept. 1

Howard Aduss, 90, Chicago
Service Sept. 1

Babette Hyman née Weil, 104, Chicago

Robert B. Stearns, 94, Morton Grove

Ruth Dina Geisenheimer née Levin, 93, Chicago

Jean P. Gibbs, 93, Lake Bluff

Joan G. Schroeter, 93, Chicago

Miriam Banker, 91, Chicago

Revelle G. Peritz née Goldman, 90, Evanston

Moisey Levin, 89, Wheeling

Melvin Mayster, 89, Glenview

John Robert Serum, 89, Elgin

Sherry Renee Chedeck née Solomon, 87, Highland Park

Ronald S. Nash, 86, Morton Grove

Sheila L. Kelin, 83, Wheeling

Robert Michael Karp, 82, Highland Park

Edward Harris Feldheim, 82, Morton Grove

Marlene R. Schwartz, 80, Deerfield

Mikhail Leschinsky, 76, Wheeling

Richard William Wiener, 76, Glenview

Paula M Goldstein, 73, Chicago

Dave Rubin, 70, Chicago

Sharon M. Glaser née Moskowitz, 69, Skokie

Annette Pinhasik, 67, Skokie

Daniel Nepomnyashchiy, 16, Mundelein

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Daniel W. Monckton, 90, Glenview
Service Aug. 30

Maureen Ward, 59, Highland Park
Visitation Aug. 30, service Aug. 30

Sue Clara Kokinis née Panas, 95, Skokie
Service Aug. 31

Stephen Lee Brodwolf, 68, Chicago
Service Sept. 2

Nolan J. Hirsley, 41, Chicago
Service Sept. 3

Barbara Sweet Grimes, 79, Winnetka
Service Sept. 7

Anna Mae Scott née Hunding, age 92, Northbrook
Service Sept. 30

Barbara DeGray Herold, 85, Bernardsville, New Jersey
Service Oct. 8

Bernice I. Fix née Fick, 98, Skokie

Eugene R. “Gene” Jennings, 97, Skokie

Peter Willits Burnside, 92, Wilmette

Hikmat Michael Hanna, 91, Glenview

James R Dolphin, 90, Glenview

John Bernard “JB” Cashion, 85, Northfield

H.A. "Buzz" McKibben, 84, Wilmette

David Edmund Mason, 83, Northfield

Patricia Creed née Loftus, 82, Glenview

Jane Berghoff née O’Toole, 79, Glenview

Stephanie Therese Fernholz née Osmanski, 69, Wilmette

Zoran Popovic, 67, Chicago

Nolan J. Hirsley, 41, Wilmette

Vladimir Jean Jacques, 38, Grayslake

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Stephen J. Hurley, 73, Chicago
Service Sept. 3

Robert H. Noesen, 62, Skokie
Service Sept. 6

Hiroshi “Johnny” Okura, 100, Chicago

Edward L. Polkow, 94, Morton Grove

Margaret Colburn Clarke, 93, Northbrook

Ramona M. “Mona” Ramos, 93, Skokie

Dorothy A. Mark née Durst, 91, Skokie

James T. Round, 89, Evanston

Phuc Van Nguyen, 74, Skokie

Daniel W. Schroeder, 55, Chicago

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Gennie Sue Boyd, 67, Des Plaines

Danae M. Tinch, 65, Evanston

Alex Thomas, 42, Evanston

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

David Leroy Thierry, 73, Chicago

Emmanuel Benitez Ascano, 54, Evanston

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

Linda A. Heublein née Steven, 94, Downers Grove
Service Aug. 30

Spiros Papaioannou, 72, Glenview
Service Aug. 30

Elizabeth M. “Betsy” Chisholm, 56, Glenview
Service Aug. 31

Dorothy Bedessem née Leet, 99, Northbrook
Service Sept. 6

Joseph E. Ahern, 96, Glenview

Donald Thomas Elliott, 85, Northbrook

Catherine “Kitty” Hoover, 76, Glenview

Scott Stearns Huebner, 63, Glenview

Paul Klatt, 59, Skokie

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Timothy Arthur Brosnan, 66, Morton Grove
Service Sept. 2

James R. Meek, 96, Morton Grove

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

Gail Brooks, 106, Chicago

Kayla Goldberg, 98, Chicago

Sigmund Lefkovitz, 98, Palm Beach, Florida

Bella Medvedeva, 96, Chicago

Marilyn Kaplan née Bloom, 93, Northbrook

Burton Lichterman, 84, Niles

Kenneth "Ken" Miller, 79, Lincolnshire

George T. Simon, 74, Evanston

David Bert Spangler, 72, Northbrook

Julie MacKinnon, 60, Chicago

Featured Obituary:

Pete Burnside, a former major-league baseball player and longtime New Trier Township High School educator and coach, passed away peacefully on Friday morning, August 26th, in the presence of his family. He was ninety-two.

Known to many as a kind and generous person, Pete will be missed by his family and his friends. Pete had a bearing of humble dignity, his full head of white hair crowning his six-foot-four-inch frame. He loved sharing his time, his wisdom, and his Northwoods. When he had visitors up north, Pete would tell them to enjoy themselves and make use of his motors, tools, paddles, and gear. “Tell me if it breaks,” he would say, as if to imply, “That’s what it’s here for.”

“Isn’t the lake beautiful?” Pete would ask. “It’s a special place.”

Born in Evanston, Illinois, on July 2nd, 1930, Peter Willits Burnside grew up in Wilmette with his brother Don and their mother, the former Helen Baxter Willits. Pete recounted with fondness his stories from boyhood about making Sunday visits to Highland Park to see his grandfather, the late Ward Winfield Willits, at his home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The summertime found young Pete fishing, swimming, and camping with his family in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, a place to which he would return year after year throughout his lifetime.

As a teenager, Pete was making a name for himself as a hard-throwing southpaw at New Trier. With counsel from Jules Herbuveaux, vice president of NBC Chicago, Pete signed a contract to play professional baseball at the age of nineteen.

Herbuveaux was Pete's “Uncle Tony,” a Chicago band leader in the 1920s turned broadcasting executive. Uncle Tony was a father-figure for Pete as well as his future uncle-in-law. A condition of the deal Pete made with the New York Giants, thanks to Herbuveaux’s influence, allowed Pete to attend Dartmouth College and play baseball for the Giants during the summers.

As a "farmhand" in the Giants' minor league system, Pete graduated from Dartmouth in 1952 and then served in the United States Army during the Korean War. Stationed in Missouri at Fort Leonard Wood, Pete pitched for the Hilltoppers team that won the 1953 National Baseball Congress World Series.

After pitching assignments in St. Cloud, Ottawa, Minneapolis, and Nashville, Pete delivered a head-turning performance for the Dallas Stars of the Texas League and was “called up” to New York City, where he won his first major league game for the Giants in 1955 at the Polo Grounds.

Pete's travels in baseball also took him to Puerto Rico for "winter ball," where he pitched for Santurce with many talented teammates, including his longtime friend, Don Zimmer.

Pete was a founding member of the San Francisco Giants when major league baseball debuted on the west coast in 1958. As a Washington Senator, lefty Pete surrendered three home runs to Roger Maris during the Yankee slugger’s record-setting season of 1961. Pete also played for the Baltimore Orioles and the Detroit Tigers, before spending two seasons pitching in Japan. In October of 1964, Pete got the ball for Game 5 of the deadlocked Japan World Series and pitched his Hanshin Tigers to a 6-3 victory, perhaps his greatest moment as a pro.

In January of 1964 Pete married his “Uncle” Tony’s niece, Suzette Herbuveaux. Pete and Suzette remained lovingly dedicated to one another for fifty-eight years. Together they raised three children in Wilmette, Illinois.

Following a seventeen-year career in baseball, Pete retired in 1965 and earned a master’s degree in education at Northwestern University. He then embarked upon a twenty-five-year career as a coach and educator at New Trier, his own alma mater. Pete was a beloved coach and student advisor, mentoring students and coaching baseball, basketball, and cross country. Pete helped to develop a course called “Lifeline" – a self-driven wellness plan for students that was ahead of its time.

Pete retired from New Trier in 1994 and began spending his time in the forests and among the lakes of northern Wisconsin, his favorite setting in the world. There, he completed outdoor projects, observed the wildlife, fed the birds, and answered letters sent to him from his many baseball fans who thrilled him with their recollections and requests for Pete’s autograph.

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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