North Shore Death Notices: Aug. 7 To Aug. 13

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

John F. McManus, 94, Deerfield
Service Aug. 16

Maria Isaia née Picchietti, 90, Lake Forest
Service Aug. 16

Irina Zubko, 65, Highland Park
Service Aug. 18

Leonard Reno Fabbri, 79, Libertyville
Service Aug. 26

J. Milton McGinnis, 85, Deerfield
Service Sept. 9

Ray Felitto, 58, Wheeling

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

Paulette Joy Goracio Bentley, 75, Winthrop Harbor

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

Petr Mezheritsky, 90, Morton Grove
Service Aug. 15

Mark Brown, 76, Skokie
Service Aug. 15

Marilyn C. Schwartz née Chemino, 89, Highland Park
Service Aug. 17

Theodora Clarice "Teddye" Felix-Bliwas née Bournstine, 96, Northbrook
Service Aug. 27

Blanche L. Kishner née Lambert, 102, Evanston

Alberta Cotton née Brown, 93, Wheeling

Beatrice Natalie Trenier née Miniker, 93, Skokie

David Feinberg, 88, Chicago

Sharon M. Rubinstein née Cohn, 83, Chicago

Shelli Lynn Anderson, 50, Evanston

Timothy Eric Friedman, 47, Northbrook

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Jeffrey Marcus "JB" Brown, 26, Evanston
Visitation Aug. 17, service Aug. 18

James "Jim" William Atterholt, 88, Wilmette
Service Aug. 19

Wayne Robertson Hannah, 91, Winnetka

Michael Burrowes Safranek, 65, Chicago

William F. Riordan, 59, Glenview

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

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

James H. Gustafson, 76, Skokie
Visitation Aug. 16, service Aug. 17

Joan Bernice Heinz, 92, Bartlett

Judith Ann Moylan née Frey, 83, Evanston

Carla Anne Zuchowski née Goberville, 71, Skokie

Sharon K. Ptak-Miles, 69, Park Ridge

Joseph M. Tralmer, 67, Niles

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Marilynn Robinson, 85, Northbrook

John Stephen Hancko, 84, Evanston

Barbara Ann Lynch, 74, Evanston

Stephen Wade Harrold, 55, Liberty, Texas

Matthew Roger Worsham, 45, Chicago

Mary Jo Crihfield, 41, Evanston

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

Dennis M. Rice, 70, Chicago
Service Aug. 18

Jill K. Reid née White, 81, Wilmette
Service Aug. 19

George “Mac” Walker, 81, Northbrook
Service Aug. 19

Linda Jane Rambo Dykas, 79, Glenview
Service Aug. 19

Salvatrice F. Scharpenberg, 82, Niles

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

Jacqueline Jean Goldberg, 97, Evanston

James Stanton Lewis, 91, Winnetka

David J. Gertz, 83, Homewood

Featured Obituary:

Blanche L. Kishner nee Lambert, 102.

Everyone who knew Blanche thought she was a remarkable woman. Blanche Lambert Kishner, daughter of the late Sayde and Morton Lambert, was born and raised in Chicago and was educated at Lakeview High School, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin. She used to reminisce, with a smile, how as a young girl growing up during the depression, she had only two sweaters to wear to school on alternate days. At a young age she married her beloved Harry Kishner, an attorney from Philadelphia. They returned from their honeymoon in New Orleans on the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. Blanche spent the next four years relocating to Cambridge, MA, Warrenton, VA, and the Florida Everglades to live with Harry while he was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. To help support them until the war ended, she held a number of jobs for which she had neither training nor experience, but which provided fabulous stories that she told with brio later in life.

Blanche was a devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and had a multitude of friends. She loved movies, reading (especially The New Yorker), travel, and politics. Blanche was a superb artist and a particularly fine watercolorist. At age 13, she joined the "life drawing class" at the Art Institute of Chicago, then the youngest member ever. She continued participating in art workshops and occasional art shows from then on. She also proved to be a talented golfer, picking up the sport in her 30's and winning various local tournaments.

Blanche lived in Chicago, Glencoe, Wilmette, and finally at the Mather in Evanston, where she continued to make new friends and chaired the art committee. After her daughters were raised, Blanche took up a new career in residential real estate, headquartered in Glencoe, IL. She spent 43 years as a realtor on the North Shore, becoming extremely successful, selling over 200 homes in Glencoe alone. Her artist?s eye, her extraverted personality, her love of people, and her boundless energy combined to make her a natural.

Blanche prided herself on always being beautifully coiffed and made up. One of her good friends once said, "Blanche, I don?t think I have ever seen you without makeup," and she responded, "you never will!" And to another friend she said, "I never give out two numbers, my age and my weight." Out of respect for that rule, we will say only that her remarkable life exceeded a century in length.

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