North Shore Death Notices: May 16 To May 22

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

Mary Elizabeth Ades, 66, Highland Park
Service May 24

James Edward "Jimmy" Kelly, 85, Highland Park

Kendra Morrison Karasik, 65, Lake Forest

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

Stella Maria Grim née Galla, 97, Wildwood
Service May 24

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Geraldine "Gerry" Carey, 93, Lake Bluff
Service May 26

William Stephen Sawle, 97, Lake Forest
Service May 27

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

Harold J. Wolf, 95, Lincolnshire
Service May 25

Jeanine "Jeanie" Pearlman, 79, Highland Park
Service May 26

David Bruce Flax, 80, Scottsdale, Arizona
Service May 26

Isaak Shubs, 92, Highland Park

Michoel Shalom Chaim Grinblatt, 31, Lincolnwood

Eleanor J. Portman, 101, Lincolnwood

Miriam Richman née Fox, 96, Glenview

Joseph Zingman, 65, Niles

Robert A. Katin, 84, Deerfield

Elaine Guss née Newman, 85, Northbrook

Sandra L. Sklar, 82, Northbrook

Diana J. Waitzman née Bergman, 75, Deerfield

Boris Zaslavsky, 81, Deerfield

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Jay Tehrani, 76, Mount Prospect
Visitation May 25, service May 26

Mary Gail Meritt, 81, Evanston
Visitation May 26, service May 27

Warren Joseph Hayford, 92, Wilmette
Visitation June 1, service June 2

Emily A. Jackson, 73, Evanston
Service June 4

John Thanos, 86, Wilmette

Robert J. "Bob" Chapman, 65, Mount Prospect

Martin “Marty” Francis Masciopinto, 63, Glenview

John Francis D’Angelo, 23, Naperville

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Dionisio "Ony" Traverso, 89, Skokie
Visitation May 24, service May 25

Roberto B. Bartolome, 78, Skokie

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Kevin L. Smith, 56, Evanston

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

MaryArden "Pete" Bretland, 92, Evanston

Robert Lester Porter, 86, Wilmette

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

Stephanie Lynn Klatt, 48, Glenview
Service May 31

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

Van D. Foster, 71, Skokie
Service May 25

Francine Haber, 77, Denver

Jeffrey S. Spector, 77, Highland Park

Jeffrey Kapil, 71, Chicago

Featured Obituary:

William Stephen Sawle, III, 97, of Lake Forest, IL passed away on May 17, 2022. He was born in Chicago, IL on December 19, 1924, to William Stephen and Ruth Rhea (nee Rockcastle) Sawle, Jr. Steve was a kind and generous man with a great sense of humor and was a friend to all he met.

Steve graduated from New Trier High School in 1943. Immediately after graduation, he served in the US Navy during WWII from 1943-46. While on small craft stationed at Pearl Harbor and servicing the South Pacific Islands, he earned the rank of Quartermaster: Petty officer 2nd Class. Upon returning to Chicago, he attended Northwestern University and played four years of Big 10 football for the Wildcats. He was most proud of helping to lead NU to a victorious 1949 Rose Bowl game as an offensive and defensive right tackle, and as the captain-elect for the 1949 team. He met the girl of his dreams (Audrey Joan Little) while attending NU, and they married after graduating in 1950. Steve remained very active as an alumna, serving as President of the N Club, 1962-64. He and Audrey actively supported the athletic department, establishing two student athletic scholarships. Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in business, he went to work for his father at Rhopac, Inc., a manufacturing company in Skokie, IL. He became President of the company upon his father’s retirement, and he successfully ran the business for 35 years.

Having deep family roots in Wisconsin, he purchased and maintained, until his advanced age, a farm in Arena, Wisconsin just west of Madison. Steve dedicated 350 acres of the land to the Wisconsin River Valley Scenic Easement program, forever preserving this land in its agricultural state. He also permitted UW and the DNR to study the biodiversity on the property. Steve donated Cedar Island (a naturally wooded island in the Wisconsin River) to the WI State Department of Resources. He was a steward of the land, having developed a great understanding of conservation and preservation practices from his grandfather, William S. Sawle Sr. of Arena, WI. Throughout his long life he enjoyed being outdoors—fishing, hunting, camping, canoeing, skiing and playing tennis. He also loved travelling, having visited every continent except Antarctica, with his “Little Audrey.”

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