North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 12 To Dec. 18

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.

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

Kimberley Marie Jones, 61, Antioch
Service Dec. 21

Peter J. Powell, 94, Chicago

Ethel Lee Mallard, 77, Chicago

Debra Daniel, 71, Evanston

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Aria Knee, 74, Chicago
Visitation Dec. 20, service Dec. 21

Eleanor Anne Dowling, 94, Lake Forest

Eugene Trager, 90, Lake Forest

John Lussen, 80, Lake Forest

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

Carol Marie Marwede, 89, Lake Forest

Fuller Funeral Home-Cremation Service, 1625 Pine Ridge Road in Naples, Florida

Lawrence W. Anderson, 87, Naples, Florida

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

Jakob Messer, 86, Chicago
Service Dec. 20

Geraldine Sisto, 85, Chicago
Service Dec. 20

Helene Stanton, 73, Maitland, Florida
Service Dec. 20

Jennifer Michelle Diamond, 51, Chicago
Service Dec. 21

Flora Isenberg née Steiner, 97, Vernon Hills

Joseph H. Kroschel, 87, Wilmette

Byron H. Weis, 87, Skokie

Anita Joyce Portugal née Baskin, 86, Northbrook

Sherwin E. Pakin, 84, Chicago

Elise J. Varon née Marer, 84, Highland Park

George Levine, 82, Chicago

Larissa Zaslavsky née Weinstein, 81, Deerfield

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Ah Fun Moy, 94, Skokie
Service Dec. 20

Ligaya M. "Gay" Barke, 87, Chicago
Service Dec. 22

Marie C. Kipper, 98, Glenview

Olga D. "Ollie" Wolz, 97, Wilmette

Hugh “Bud” Gaynor, 94, Wilmette

Mary Nancy Roeder née Bleser, 90, Wilmette

Sue Ellen Knohl, 75, Evanston

Ernest “Ernie” Byrom, 74, Evanston

Kathleen Huston “Kathy” Kempf, 55, Wilmette

Busy Lane Zachar, 53, Chicago

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Ricky F. Hervig, 64, Des Plaines
Service Dec. 20

Leonard J. Deutsch, 93, Skokie
Service Dec. 21

Marie Evelyn “Evie” Grosse, 93, Skokie
Service Dec. 21

Lachmi Shewakramani, 93, Skokie

Pamela Blythe Petersen, 76, Glenview

Suzanne T. O’Callaghan, 75, Naples, Florida

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Mary Forrester, 74, Coconut Creek, Florida
Visitation Dec. 20, service Dec. 21

Zelee Edwards, 72, Evanston

Clarence Nathanial Fowler, 64, Skokie

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

Michael M. Kennedy, 82, Wilmette

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Myra J. Mlynarczyk, 72, Niles

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

Phyllis Betty Brody, 95, Lincolnshire
Service Dec. 21

Nancy Perelmuter née Goodman, 104, Chicago

Jack Joseph, 95, Chicago

Isaac Sandroff "Sandy" Goldman, 90, Chicago

Ted A. Korshak, 87, Skokie

Suzanne Jacobson, 84, Chicago

Neal Alan Mancoff, 83, Wilmette

Featured Obituary:

Lake Forest and Lake Bluff lost one of its most ardent community supporters when Eleanor Dowling passed away at age 94 on December 3, 2022.

An involved community member, a resident of Lake Bluff and a realtor here since 1967, Eleanor (El) was always in her “Happy Place” when she was involved in real estate – being with clients and other realtors, listing and showing homes, helping families find the perfect home, helping others downsize when that was the goal, and helping their adult children find their new homes. She also enjoyed teaching and coaching new and established realtors and sharing her enthusiasm for and expertise in the profession that gave her such joy.

Generations of local families were guided through important transitions under her caring watch and many local realtors called her mentor and friend. In fact, she so loved real estate that she only retired at the end of 2018, at the age of 90, from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago’s Lake Forest Office. Through the years, she also was a Managing Broker with Gibert Rayner Real Estate, Rayner First United, and Baird and Warner – all in Lake Forest – where her management career spanned decades.

Eleanor Anne Dowling (nee Hornick) was born in 1928 in Boonton, NJ, to parents Joseph and Anna (nee Kozemchak) Hornick. From starring roles in her high school plays, to The Katharine Gibbs School in NYC, to a position as the secretary to the editor of the Saturday Evening Post, she thrived in the spotlight. After three broken engagements (to him -- ahhh, drama!), she married the love of her life, Walter L. Dowling, in New York City on New Year’s Eve, 1949. His early career took their young family to New Jersey, Pennsylvania and, ultimately, Lake Bluff, Illinois, where they settled; those moves triggered her passion for real estate. Walt passed away, far too soon, in 2002.

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