North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 26 To Jan. 1

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

Laurence A. Dondanville, 94, Deerfield
Visitation Jan. 8, service Jan. 9

Peter Lorimer Gail, 80, Northbrook

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

Bonnie Dale Hyland, 60, Des Plaines
Visitation Jan. 6, service Jan. 7

Perla Erazo, 5 days, Waukegan
Service Jan. 14

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Audrey Semmelman, 89, Lake Forest

Judy Elizabeth Bagatti, 86, Lake Forest

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

Robert "Bob" Theodore Matthei, 87, Lake Forest
Service Jan. 6

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

Alan S. Bramson, 81, Glenview
Service Jan. 6

Marlene Joyce Voyles, 76, Northbrook
Service Jan. 6

Michael S. Froman, 72, Wilmette
Service Jan. 6

Sylvia Fiddler, 101, Chicago

Edith J. Berkson née Pearlman, 96, Lincolnwood

Bruce Alan Littman, 95, Chicago

Eve S. Kohn née Selig, 93, Chicago

Saloman Rombalski, 92, Chicago

Dorothy Starkman née White, 92, Highland Park

Joseph Samuel Levine, 90, Long Boat Key, Florida

Zinaida Kogan, 88, Chicago

Peter Gerber, 83, Buffalo Grove

Morris Esformes, 76, Miami Beach

Lidiya Moroz née Rivelis, 76, Chicago

Lisa Ann Schreier, 65, Clermont, Florida

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

William “Bill” Joseph Smith, 84, Libertyville
Service Jan. 6

James "Jimmy" Pollard, 82, Evanston
Service Jan. 6

Frank Joseph Frelka, 67, Northfield
Visitation Jan. 6, service Jan. 7

Gerald “Jerry” Flaherty, 84, Winnetka
Service Jan. 9

Carolyn Kay Brooks, 76, Evanston
Service Jan. 22

William “Bill” Townsend Weaver, 79, Wilmette
Service Feb. 5

Barbara O’Neill Steinschneider, 94, Winnetka

Helen C. DeVogelaere, 92, Glenview

Jay Anthony Lipe, 92, New Buffalo, Michigan

Anthonius Walter Graft, 88, Northbrook

Paul Delmar Engstrom, 84, Chicago

Richard "Rick" George Carle, 79, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

George J. Mohrlein, 84, Skokie
Visitation Jan. 4, service Jan. 5

Eleanor C. Bremer née May, 94, Niles
Visitation Jan. 5, service Jan. 6

Dawn Yolonda Williams, 51, Morton Grove
Service Jan. 7

Guillermo Calderon Rivera, 85, Chicago

Michelle Cheney née Tero, 72, Skokie

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Michelle Ann Marie Reid Mitchell, 50, Skokie
Visitation Jan. 4, service Jan. 5

Winston Gilbert Gillett, 76, Evanston
Visitation Jan. 13, service Jan. 14

Mary Rebecca Forrester née Palmer, 74, Evanston

Zeltee Edwards, 72, Evanston

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Howard Neil Rubin, 82, Skokie

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

Inge H. Braun née Brade, 88, Northbrook
Service Jan. 6

Barbara Petronella Kleyweg, 95, Evanston
Service Jan. 21

Rosalyn Irene Aranda née Waggoner, 75, Glenview
Service May 6

Mohammed Rahim, 78, Northbrook

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Kathleen Vlamis née Grear, 71, Morton Grove

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

Lois B. Hazen, 83, Skokie
Service Jan. 5

Alvin "Jinx" Kalmin, 93, Northbrook
Service Jan. 6

Alice M. Berkman, 86, Skokie

Harriet Engel Gross, 86, Chicago

Alex Mindich, 85, Glenview

Naomi Berkowitz née Lupel, 84, Chicago

Deborah S. Donberg, 79, Chicago

Featured Obituary:

Laurence A. Dondanville, 94, passed away peacefully at his home in Deerfield, Illinois on January 1, 2023. He was born in Rock Island, Illinois on March 28, 1928, and was raised in Moline, Illinois by his parents Dr. Laurence Dondanville and Eva Dondanville (Ender). Larry attended St. Ambrose Academy in Davenport, Iowa, and graduated from Purdue University in 1950 with a degree in civil engineering.

After being inducted into the U.S. Army, Larry used his civil engineering skills as a Corporal in a topographic battalion in the Philippines from 1950-1952. The following year, he married his wife Rose Mary Lacey in Washington D.C. They then moved to Chicago, Illinois where Larry worked at De Leuw, Cather & Company, a Chicago-based consulting engineering firm. In 1956 they moved with their young children to Deerfield, Illinois, onto the land where his mother Eva had grown up that had been in his family since 1901. There he designed the plans and oversaw the construction of their home, where he lived for the next 62 years.

Larry had a successful career as a civil engineer, working on projects around the world, including the suspension bridge across the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey; the Kuwait and Abu Dhabi Motorway Systems; the Sydney and Perth Australia Expressway Systems; and the Mass Rapid Transit Rail Systems in Singapore and Taipei. In his retirement, he enjoyed traveling with his friends and family and took his family on trips to Hawaii, Europe, Alaska, and the Caribbean.

Larry was proud to be descended from the founders of Deerfield, who donated much to the building of Holy Cross Catholic Parish, the rectory, church and school. He was a man of many talents and was dedicated to his community, keeping his yard impeccably maintained and being actively engaged in the village to the joy and sorrows of the village hall staff. He was also deeply interested in his family history, keeping genealogy records for decades and eventually creating a website to connect the Dondanville family worldwide.

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