North Shore Death Notices: Aug. 21 To Aug. 27

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

Matthew D. Muzik, 63, Lake Bluff
Service Aug. 30

Maria Concetta Mangiardi, 6, Highland Park

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

James M. Davenport, 66, Phoenix

Marcela Vazquez Alonso, 46, Highland Park

Angel Salgado, 22, Chicago

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Joan Westfall Finch, 94, Libertyville
Service Sept. 9

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

Sheldon “Shelly” Prais, 84, Libertyville
Service Oct. 29

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

Charlotte Kravitz née Jaffe, 94, Northbrook
Service Aug. 29

Erwin Nathansen, 86, Chicago
Service Aug. 29

Alvin D. Weiss, 98, Highland Park

Lawrence "Larry" Stuart Yellin, 98, Lincolnwood

Norman S. Rosen, 97, Lincolnwood

Theodora Clarice "Teddye" Felix-Bliwas, 96, Northbrook

Rosalie Weiner née Kohn, 92, Northbrook

Davida Kramer Friedmann née Berman, 91, Lincolnshire

Eleanor A. Weiner née Allen, 89, Chicago

Donald P. Lutz, 88, Harwood Heights

Alan George Moses, 78, Chicago

Roberta C. Glickman née Miller, 77, Highland Park

Stephen Norman Vogel, 77, Wilmette

Marilyn Rose, 76, Flossmoor

Yakov Tenenbaum, 74, Wheeling

David Frim, 63, Skokie

Esther T. Meyers, 63, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Benjamin Walter Bishop, 64, Wilmette
Service Aug. 29

Sophia Din Madden, 80, Winnetka
Service Sept. 9

William T. Kirk, 101, Lake Forest

Zachary D. Lazar, 85, Northbrook

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

James W. Dailey, 86, Harwood Heights
Service Sept. 7

Joseph M. Tralmer, 67, Niles
Service Sept. 7

Atooria Azizi, 76, Chicago

Michael L. Memmini, 65, Skokie

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

Stephen Gordon Murray, 70, Evanston
Visitation Aug. 30, service Aug. 31

Sydney L. Brown, 79, Evanston

Kathleen Mary Kennedy, 65, Evanston

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

Lillian O. Arnoldsen, 89, Libertyville
Service Sept. 2

Marcia C. Solvsberg née Weidenkopf, 83, Glenview

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

Ira C. Berger, 80, Chicago
Service Aug. 29

Muriel Leff Fohrman, 97, Highland Park

Max Segal, 95, Northbrook

Donna J. Tropstein, 79, Lincolnwood

Max Emanuel Klein, 78, Chicago

Gillian Emily "Gill" Beginski, 23, Mundelein

Featured Obituary:

William T. Kirk IV, a resident of Lake Forest, IL and formerly Palo Alto, CA, died August 21,2023. He was born to M/M William T. Kirk III in Haverford, PA on Dec. 27, 1921. He became the eldest of 5 boys – brothers, Ely, Alan, Richard, and Donald. Brother Alan is surviving. William attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, graduating in 1944. He then went on to Haverford College, leaving there in late 1942 to enlist in the Army Air Corps. He trained in Texas as a bombardier and was assigned to the U.S. 8th Air Force in England, the 379th Bomb Group, a major B-17 base from which he and his crew flew 35 missions over Europe, primarily bombing various targets in Germany and selected locations. He and his crew were awarded the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Following his tour of duty he flew back to the US in the plane of his uncle Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk, Cdr of all US Naval Forces for the Normandy invasion. Back in the US he then entered pilot training, a program which was disbanded in mid 1945 after VE Day. In August 1944 he married Nancy Scribner of Winnetka, Il, and together they had 4 children-Edith K. Miller and Nancy K. Knoblauch of Palo Alto, CA, William Douglass Kirk of Windsor CA and Donald S. Kirk of Prescott, AZ. Over the years, he and Nancy lived in Chestnut Hill, PA, Rye NY, Winnetka, IL and Palo Alto, CA. There are 12 grandchildren (eleven boys and one girl) and 21 great grandchildren. Nancy died in February of 1988. Returning to Winnetka again he met and married Grace Fuller Greaves in July 1989. They lived for many years in both Menlo Park and Winnetka. She died in Nov. 2018. Bill worked for 40 years for Time Inc., representing the international editions of Time, being based both in Chicago and San Francisco offices. His work entailed business travel abroad, with special emphasis on British Columbia. Over the years he found hobbies in travel, gardening, photography and music.

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