North Shore Death Notices: July 24 To July 30

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

David Wayne Davenport, 69, Round Lake Beach
Service Aug. 5

Maureen Marie Ziegler née Mitchell, 88, Island Lake
Visitation Aug. 10, service Aug. 11

Kimberly Beth Ryan née DeGeorge, 55, Asheville, North Carolina
Service Aug. 26

Bonita "Bonnie" Sue Locascio, 76, Mundelein

Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home, 1787 Deerfield Road in Highland Park

Charmaine Vivian Finnegan née Osterkorn, 96, Northbrook

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

Marsha D. Erenberg, 76, Chicago
Service Aug. 1

Gail Marcus, 56, Rolling Meadows
Service Aug. 3

Robert Arlen "Bobby" Sussman, 68, Chicago
Service Aug. 6

Irving Cutler, 100, Wilmette

Mildred Irene Ginsburgh, 99, Castaic, California

Joan B. Steele, 96, Aurora

Shirley Feld née Busch, 93, Lincolnwood

Robert "Bob" David Essak, 85, Glenview

Joel Arnold Swartzman, 82, Vernon Hills

Ronna "Ronni" Gail Greene, 70, Hoffman Estates

Albert Baer Zisook, 65, Los Angeles

Valerie Sue Nedwin, 58, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Peggy Keeley, 93, Evanston
Service Aug. 2

Joan Bowe, 93, Evanston
Service Sept. 16

Marceline Matilda Whitfield née Miller, 95, Evanston

Lois Ghiselli née Lindeman, 94, Evanston

Howard Schneider, 87, Evanston

Brendan Goranson, 28, Glenview

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Victoria Ramon née Plaza, 92, Skokie

Herbert M. Yamashiroya, 92, Skokie

Alcira M. Smith née Vargas, 91, Skokie

John C. “Jack” Hayward, 75, Skokie

Gary F. Blaha, 66, Skokie

Peter A. Jenson, 57, Winnetka

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Judy Dahm née Hoffman, 65, Chicago
Service Aug. 1

Amelia "Mickey" Gaza, 90, Niles
Service Aug. 8

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

Michael T. O’Brien, 87, Glenview
Service Aug. 1

Phyllis Marie Gay Zubulake, 84, Northbrook
Visitation Aug. 4, service Aug. 5

June A. Estlin née Parada, 81, Palatine
Service Aug. 10

Thomas Joseph Hawkinson, 91, Winnetka

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Ruth Ann Feminella, 94, Chicago

Nancy Elizabeth Webber, 85, Evanston

Richard Mahlon Jones, 83, Evanston

James "Jim" Milton Mauck, 73, Merrillville, Indiana

Roberto Cardenas Lara, 70 of Evanston

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

Arthur "Art" Zeinfeld, 102, Lincolnwood
Service Aug. 1

Leona Katzman née Skoller, 101, Skokie

Harry A. Springer, 85, Glenview

Howard B. Green, 67, Chicago

Featured Obituary:

Irving Cutler, age 100, noted Chicago geographer, author, lecturer, and tour guide, passed away on July 24, 2023. Dr. Cutler authored eight books, including the best-seller The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. Other publications include Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent which received an award from the Illinois State Historical Society; Jewish Chicago: A Pictorial History; and Chicago's Jewish West Side. He appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts, and in video documentaries covering a wide range of geographical topics, including Jewish Chicago.

Dr. Cutler also became well known for tours he developed and guided through Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods. Exploring these neighborhoods by bus variously included stops at historic landmarks, cemeteries, public sculpture, and religious institutions, accompanied by stories of their past residents from Nobel prize winners to gangsters. The breadth of offerings included three different ethnic tours, a food tour, a religious institutions tour, a historic Chicago tour, an Indiana Dunes tour, and a Wendella boat tour, among others. Dr. Cutler also gave three different Jewish Chicago tours, the most popular of which was to the west side's Lawndale neighborhood. As one tour member from Gary, Indiana wrote: "Some of the group had lived in Chicago all their lives and were shocked at how much they didn't know. You opened our eyes to another world and we loved it. Thank you for giving us a day to remember." Dr. Cutler gave his last tour in 2019, when he was 96.

These tours were partly informed by his own personal history. Dr. Cutler was born in the Maxwell Street area, grew up in North Lawndale, moved to Hyde Park for college, with an eventual move to the suburbs. For the past 65 years he had resided in Wilmette. During the Great Depression, for five years as a young teenager, Dr. Cutler helped at his father's newsstand which was located at Madison Street and Racine Avenue in what was then Skid Row. He found the locale, and its people a compelling palette, from the daily newsstand political debates to the hardscrabble life among its citizens. He would later write about that too, and one of the most colorful taverns in the area - Cohen's - which was located adjacent to the newsstand. He once wrote, "the best practical lifelong education I ever received about the ups and downs of life was when I was a newsboy on Skid Row during the Great Depression."

From 1943-1946, he served as a U.S. Naval officer aboard the destroyer escort USS Stewart, making numerous trans-Atlantic crossings that ferried 60 ship convoys through waters also occupied by German submarines. After the war, he went on to receive his Master's Degree from the University of Chicago in Social Science, and his Ph.D. in Urban Geography from Northwestern.

He served on the faculty of Chicago State University for 24 years, 10 of which as chairman of the Geography Department. He also taught at DePaul University. He was a past President and Board member of the Geographic Society of Chicago. In 2021, he received the Distinguished Geographer Award from the Illinois Geographic Society. He was a founding member of the Chicago Jewish Historical Society, and one of the original members of Beth Hillel Congregation in Wilmette. Recently, for his 100th birthday, he was honored for his service to the Jewish Community with the L'dor V'dor award by the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago which was celebrating its own 100th anniversary. Following this occasion, when asked about what message he might impart, Dr. Cutler said, "know your history, and pass it on."

Dr. Cutler loved and cherished his family above all else. He was always there for them - with his wisdom, curiosity, generosity and kindness; and all of his accomplishments never changed his caring and humble nature.

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