North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 11 To Dec. 17

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

James Lehtinen, 86, Lincolnshire
Service Dec. 20

Brandon Petroff, 37, Northbrook

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

George Frank Reynolds, 89, Lake Forest

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

Mary Ann “Mia” Solvejg Spooner née Sornson, 92, Lake Bluff
Service Jan. 4

John Zeeman, 86, Lake Bluff

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

Myron "Brother" Silverman, 83, Chicago
Service Dec. 19

Ella Krzetowski née Rosenblatt, 98, Morton Grove
Service Dec. 20

Ardis Joyce Beckman, 83, Chicago
Service Dec. 21

Bernard Susman, 99, Winnetka

Joyce Pollack née Ramek, 91, Skokie

Doris W. Fogel née Warchawski, 89, Northbrook

Ira Halper, 88, Chicago

Fred E. Holubow, 84, Chicago

Yakov Beyrak, 75, Glenview

Linda F. Olive née Gilley, 75, Northbrook

Dmitriy Milman, 67, Wheeling

Seth Allen Knobel, 55, Columbia, Maryland

Joshua Joseph Little, 35, Arlington Heights

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Zita C. Gavin née Kabeschat, 91, Winnetka
Service Dec. 20

Fannie Elizabeth Mayer, 89, Evanston
Visitation Dec. 21, service Dec. 22

Marion R. Hurley née Kiessel, 88, Northbrook
Visitation Dec. 21, service Dec. 22

Barbara A. Walczak née Quaritsch, 74, Glenview
Visitation Dec. 22, service Dec. 23

Rosaline Jean Nierodzik, 96, Evanston

Robert Pingry, 92, Charleston, South Carolina

William Norman "Bill" Sick, 88, Winnetka

Donald J. Sackley, 81, Evanston

Edward James Giniat, 67, Winnetka

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Susan A. Martin, 81, Northbrook
Service Dec. 20

Reg S. Dumagpi, 73, Morton Grove
Service Dec. 21

Iris Da Silva M. De Souza, 93, Skokie

Leonor B. Gliane née Buñag, 87, Skokie

Robert J. “Bob” Heineman, 77, Skokie

Erika D. Ward née Ullberg, 31, Wheeling

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

May Snitman, 93, Skokie
Service Dec. 19

Rose Charone née Leibik, 97, Wilmette

Mark Fogelson, 94, Wilmette

William H. Gofen, 92, Chicago

Leonid D. Stonov, 92, Skokie

Carlos M. Mancio, 91, Park Ridge

Charles “Corky” Goodman, 90, Chicago

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Russell William Alford, 56, Skokie

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

Margene Ann Rosenquist née Aspegren, 95, Northbrook
Service Dec. 21

Michelle Buss née Orlandini, 56, Northbrook

Featured Obituary:

Shopping Center Pioneer, Judicial Reform Advocate, Philanthropist

Bernard Susman was a real estate developer, judicial reform advocate and philanthropist. Growing up in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago, he was a Jewish kid who boxed for the CYO, sparred with Jake Lamotta and other heavy weights to increase their speed, and became a CYO Champion. After traveling around the U.S. after high school, he planned to become an architect, and attended IIT (counting among his teachers S.I. Hayakawa and Bruno Bettelheim) as well as the School of the Art Institute. When the U.S. entered the Second World War, he enlisted in the Army Air Force as an engineer, where he built airfields, and later flew in A-26s as a bombardier-navigator. After the war, he graduated from Roosevelt University and turned to real estate development, starting at the Chicago firm of Landau and Perlman where he was sent to survey main street shopping stores. They found that small town main streets no longer had the space to accommodate the growing size of new stores and got the idea to put together a grocery, variety store, drug store and other tenants at the intersection of two main streets fronting vacant land for parking—perfect for the growing post war suburban economy. Thus the “shopping center” was born. Mr. Susman was one of the pioneers and was at the forefront of their development in the Chicago area. He stayed at Landau and Perlman for five years, before venturing off on his own.

Building on his success, he attracted outside investors to help finance and develop over two and half million square feet of commercial real estate nationwide, and worked with Frank Gehry, among others, early in their careers. He became involved in litigation that dragged through the courts for fourteen years. He eventually won. While it slowed his career, that experience sparked an interest in Judicial Reform. He worked with the Solovy Commission in the fight to bring integrity back to the Cook County court system and became the first non-lawyer to become a member of the Judicial Evaluating Committee of the Chicago Bar Association.

Throughout his career he was involved in charitable endeavors. As a member of the Standard Club, he served both on the House and Membership Committees, and later as president of the club, and always stressed as preeminent criteria for membership the importance of charitable giving. As president of Park View Home, a home for the elderly and a part of the Jewish Federation of Chicago, he became instrumental in developing its successor, the Lieberman Geriatric Center. He later worked with Drexel Home and BMZ to form what would become CJE, the Council for the Jewish Elderly. He also became involved in Big Brothers of Metropolitan Chicago, helping to mentor boys. As the organization grew to over three hundred matches, he eventually became president of the board.

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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