North Shore Death Notices: June 19 To June 25

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

Agustín Moreno Haro, 69, Zion

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

Archibald Eaton Fletcher, 90, Lake Bluff
Service June 27

Linda Weber, 59, Lake Bluff

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

Faye Schwartz, 98, Wilmette
Service June 28

Patricia Kahn Horwitz, 96, Highland Park

Muriel L. Cowen, 95, Lincolnwood

Florence Perlman née Silverstein, 94, Northbrook

Hyman Burstyn, 91, Evanston

Linda Schuman Motta, 84, Bay Village, Ohio

Allan David Elstien, 79, Riverwoods

M. Gerald Fried, 79, Skokie

Janet Keiser née Lazere, 71, Highwood

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Daniel J. Sullivan, 69, Park Ridge
Service June 27

Beverly Ann Avery née Egebrecht, 89, Northbrook
Visitation June 27, service June 28

Edward Alan "Ed" Agnew, 66, Evanston
Visitation June 29, service June 30

Stephany Benson Creamer, 81, Evanston
Service June 30

Carol Haliday McQueen, 79, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Margaret Wallace Poet née Driscoll, 85, Skokie

Charles "Chuck" Conrad, 77, Skokie

Ming Moy-Young, 66, Schiller Park

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

Thomas Marvin Waugh, 85, Chicago
Service June 29

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Leonila Marcelo, 63, Grayslake

J. Carmen Sanchez-Mendoza, 61, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Isidro B. Perez, 70, Buffalo Grove
Visitation June 29, service June 30

Timothy S. Leahy, 64, Des Plaines

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

Eileen R. Albini née Gamble, 100, Northbrook
Service June 29

Andrew DaMiano, 68, Northbrook

Michael Patrick Thomas, 53, Chicago

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

Ellen Sue Leavitt née Margul, 81, Wilmette
Service June 29

Larry Gordan, 89, Wilmette
Service June 30

Jeanne Randall Malkin, 87, Winnetka

Richard L. Sperling, 84, Highland Park

Thomas Leslie Stramer, 68, Evanston

Featured Obituary:

Archibald Eaton Fletcher, Jr known as “Archie” by family and friends, died on Wednesday, June 22, 2023 right after getting his hair cut in Lake Bluff. He was 90 years old at the time of his death caused by congestive heart failure.

He was a long-time resident of Lake Bluff over six different decades and served on the Park Board for a number of years.

Born in Dayton, Ohio during the depths of the depression in October 1932, Archie was the son of Archie E. Fletcher, Senior and Zora Isabel Fletcher. Later in his childhood he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was an executive for Standard Oil.

He went to The Taft School, a college-preparatory boarding school in Watertown, CT, followed by college at Case (Western Reserve) in Cleveland and graduated in 1954. He was an active member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, for which he stayed connected with the rest of his life serving a regional Province President. While he was going to college, he met Dorothy Jean, a nursing student. They got married in November 1953 and were married for 55 years until “Dottie” died in June 2008.

They had three children together, David (Casey Ann Coon and the late Wanda Ellithorpe-Fletcher), Sally, and Thomas Eaton (Cindy Fletcher).

As a man of action, he sought new love and was blessed to meet Kathleen Margaret Moeller (Kathy) in September 2008. They fell in love with their common love of travel and movies. On September 12, 2009 they were married at the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest.

Besides being survived by his three of his own children, Archie is survived by four grandchildren (Janine, Jeffrey, Abigail, and Austin) and seven great grandchildren (Forrest, Hendrix, Finley, Lincoln, Falon, Malcolm, and Farrah). He is survived by Kathy’s daughter Trisha and her three children Jessica, Kailee, and Kira, as well as three great-grandchildren Aiden, Ayla, and Mason.

After finishing school in Cleveland and working for several area business, Archie relocated to Peoria, Illinois where he worked at Westinghouse lighting division. While in Peoria, he was the President of the local Peoria Golfer’s Association and lit the first “night golf course” in downstate Illinois.

In late 1966, Archie moved his family to Glen Ellyn, a Chicago western suburb (“because it was in the middle of some great golf courses” he revealed a couple of months ago). Together with his son David, he started the Glenbard West hockey club in 1972, where coached for several years.

In 1987, after designing the lighting studio for a new and upcoming talent in Chicago, named Oprah Winfrey, Archie and his youngest son Tom started Fletcher Chicago, a fledging new venture to service the emerging television and movie industry. In 1991, Archie and Tom proposed placing a robotic camera that was installed under the scoreboard at the old Chicago Stadium for the NBA Finals, Soon Archie’s daughter Sally would join the team and under Archie’s leadership, the team at Fletcher Sports began to innovative multiple camera shots that would revolutionize sports broadcasting worldwide. Fletcher Chicago would go on and own every NHL goal camera in North America. The team at Fletcher would go on to win several national Emmys and open offices in London prior to the 2012 Olympics. In, 2018, Archie sold Fletcher, now owned by NEP. He finally retired at 83 years old.

Fletcher Chicago also served the growing motion picture industry in Illinois. Archie helped create the Illinois Production Alliance to lobby for tax incentives to bring the Hollywood industry to the state. Archie help led the cinema camera rental team into the digital age of filmmaking.

He spent the rest of his life serving as the Chief Financial Officer for his son David’s medical practice in Champaign and serving as a deacon at First Presbyterian Church in Lake Forest. He was a leader in the men’s prayer group Men of Corinth and often led bible studies, where biblical passage quizzes were beloved.

He was a passionate Chicago Black Hawks fan and season ticket holder, as well as Chicago White Sox fan and season ticket holder. He proudly boasted he was at Mark Buhrle’s perfect game in 2009.

Send obituaries and images to your Patch to be included in future editions: Deerfield, Evanston, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff-Lake Forest, Niles-Morton Grove, Northbrook, Skokie, Winnetka-Glencoe-Northbrook, Wilmette-Kenilworth

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