North Shore Death Notices: July 3 To July 10

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

Myra J. Cazolas, 81, Lincolnshire

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

Olga Vranic née Stevanovic, 84, Milwaukee
Service July 14

Martha Crowell Gill, 65, Gurnee
Service July 14

Judith "Judy" Marie Jones née Baum, 62, Round Lake Beach
Service July 22

Suzanne Leon Yovonne, 79, Chicago

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Martin Torosian, 91, Lake Forest
Service July 12

Douglas McBryde Kinney, 92, Lake Forest
Service Sept. 7

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

Susan “Susie” Schemel Hoffmann, 69, Lake Forest
Service July 13

Mary Gail Anderson, 84, Lake Forest

Linda Weberw, 59, Lake Bluff

Robert Davison “Davis” Edson, 48, Deerfield

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

Matilda Soifer, 93, Buffalo Grove
Service July 12

Joel Edwin Wax, 86, Lincolnshire
Service July 12

Muriel G. Cornblath, 98, Boynton Beach, Florida

Gershon Brenner, 95, Deerfield Beach, Florida

Muriel "Matie" Finkel née Horwitz, 94, Evanston

William M. Kaplan, 93, Chicago

Lester Donald "Don" Schaffer, 91, Lincolnwood

Arkadiy Langer, 92, Niles

Leonid Medovoy, 81, Glenview

Hennie Lynn Korman, 61, Fort Myers, Florida

Jordan Cooper Halpern, 23, Novato

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Mary Jane "M. J." Kane Murphy née Cullinan, 101, Glenview
Service July 10

John Matthew Carroll, 82, Evanston
Service July 12

Maureen Catherine Hayes née Meade, 83, Glenview
Service July 20

Eugene F. “Gene” Nowak, 87, Northfield
Visitation July 21, service July 22

Eugene Anthony Broccolo, 96, Northfield

Cezar Cornelio, 52, Morton Grove

Griffin Shane Ocampo Maks, 17, Skokie

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Scott E. Noesen, 51, Wheeling
Visitation July 12, service July 13

Hilda A. Lotito née Coteus, 105, Skokie

Rita A. Madden née Walsh, 95, Chicago

Michael R. Burns, 80, Morton Grove

Maria D. Washington née Domingo, 74, Skokie

Thompson Funeral & Cremation Services, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Antenor Philippe, 68, Chicago

Christopher Beaton, 35, Round Lake Heights

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Dennis K. Joyce, 91, Glenview
Service July 22

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

Lila Tankus née Lee, 95, Northfield
Service July 12

Alexandra Leventhal, 60, Chicago
Service July 12

Lester “Les” Bernfeld, 95, Northbrook
Service July 13

Ariel "Ari" Mark Levi, 42, Evanston
Service July 14

Boris Gekhtman, 97, Chicago

Francene M. Adelson, 94, Skokie

Sherwin W. Schwartz, 91, Skokie

Irma Schwartz, 85, Chicago

Barbara Jean Abrams, 84, Winnetka

Kay Walden Stone, 79, Chicago

Featured Obituary:

Susan “Susie” Schemel Hoffmann, 69, of Lake Forest, Illinois, passed away peacefully on June 29, 2023.

Susie was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she attended University School. She earned a degree in Classics from Skidmore College and a Masters in Business Administration from the Stern School at New York University. While living in New York, she was an officer at Chemical Bank and Bankers Trust, and volunteered in education programs at the Junior League of New York City.

After moving to Lake Forest, Illinois, Susie devoted her considerable energies to raising her four children with her husband, Charlie, and continued to pursue her interest in education, actively developing curriculum for School District 67. She was instrumental in the District’s adoption of foundational Latin for all students in elementary grades and was a middle school Latin instructor for several years. Susie then embarked on a full-time education career and served for five years as the Director of Summer Programs at Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development.

In 2009, Susie was hired by Lake Forest Open Lands, where she conceived and led the Center for Conservation Leadership as an environmental stewardship program for high school students from Lake Forest and surrounding underserved communities. Susie forged adult educational partnerships with other organizations, including members of the Lake County Nature Network, of which she was a co-founder, Gorton Community Center, and Lake Forest College, where she taught a course covering the history, ecology, and environmental policy issues of Lake Michigan. Among others, Susie’s environmental recognitions included selection as an Audubon Toyota TogetherGreen Fellow and receipt of an Environmental Protection Agency grant as a fellow aboard the Lake Michigan research vessel Lake Guardian. She retired as Director of CCL in December 2022.

Susie saw the outdoors as a rich classroom, whether driving her children on an extensive tour of the Western states one summer, introducing groups of CCL students to Yellowstone Park, or arranging Friday evening nature talks on the Lake Forest Open Lands preserves. Susie loved to travel and was an avid student of the history and culture of any place she visited. She was curious, eager for deeper knowledge on many fronts, and happy to share the fruits of her curiosity with others. In both her professional and personal life, Susie was a relationship builder and made a practice of connecting people with complementary interests, enriching all of her communities.

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