North Shore Death Notices: Oct. 31 To Nov. 6

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 Louise "Marylou" Adamek née Roach, 82, Highland Park
Service Nov. 9

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

Elisabet Sorensen Iampaglia, 76, Elmira, New York
Service Nov. 18

Ireta “Jeannie” Hagenson, 86, Grayslake

Robert Anthony Brizzolara, 80, Arlington Heights

Mariana Ionescu neé Sacalis, 74, Des Plaines

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Joseph George Krakora, 97, Lake Forest
Visitation Nov. 13, service Nov. 14

Brenda Ann Bendel, 79, Lake Forest

Robert Christian Hodgkinson, 39, Lake Bluff

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

Hildo Gerard Hoogcarspel, 86, Lake Forest
Service Nov. 10

John Paul Reilly, 54, Lake Forest
Service Nov. 11

Joseph W. Walther, 58, Lake Bluff
Service Nov. 29

Shirley Todd Antes, 87, Lake Forest

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

Lynn Foreman, 81, Chicago
Service Nov. 9

Bernice Kopelman, 74, Lake Zurich
Service Nov. 9

Clarence Burgeman, 98, Skokie

June Marks Patinkin, 95, Chicago

Richard L. Ettelson, 95, Chicago

Sallie Blackman, 94, Riverwoods

Herbert H. Franks, 89, Marengo

Gary S. Kushner, 89, Arlington Heights

Lois Israel née Kurtzman, 76, Highland Park

Charles “Chuck” David Share, 75, Northbrook

Lee Sachnoff, 72, Lake Bluff

Rick C. Riffer, 61, Elk Grove Village

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

James Peter Danos, 80, Naperville
Visitation Nov. 9

Patricia Corinne McMahon née Pace, 89, Glenview
Visitation Nov. 10, service Nov. 11

Joyce Magnus née Franco, 71, Skokie
Visitation Nov. 12

Helen Louise Doyle, 99, Glenview

James Patrick Byrne, 94, Northfield

Jerome Francis Dixon, 91, Evanston

Elizabeth “Betsy” Finzer, 91, Fort Myers, Florida

Albina Przespolewski, 75, Evanston

Edward James Feldheim, 71, Niles

Lauren Elizabeth Mayster-Ussery, 42, Northbrook

Patrick Anthony Bochenko, 41, Glenview

Rommie B. Khalifeh, 29, Wilmette

Michael Aaron Wolf, 28, Glenview

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Irene M. Barys née Witek, 100, Skokie
Service Nov. 9

Margareta Bauchinger née Dittrich, 90, Chicago
Service Nov. 13

Maria Mihalec née Matz, 96, Skokie
Visitation Nov. 14

Erika Lursky née Litmanowski, 74, Skokie

William “Billy” Scott Knierim, 52, Skokie

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Randall Montgomery Sieber, 70, Evanston

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

St. Clair M. Barton, 81, Evanston
Service Nov. 9

Henry Revis, 66, Evanston
Visitation Nov. 10, service Nov. 11

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

Florence A. Hestad, 96, Northfield

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

Max Tannenbaum, 104, Morton Grove

Merle Reskin née Muskal, 93, Northbrook

Rochelle Levin, 84, Arlington Heights

Sanford "Sandy" Garfield, 80, Rockville

Featured Obituary:

Merle Reskin, nee Muskal, age 93, left this earth on November 1, 2023. She was born on November 20, 1929, and lived an incredible life. She was a singer, dancer, and patron of the arts. She was also a mom, a grandma, and a great-grandma to many.

A native Chicagoan, Merle first discovered her love for music and drama at the Latin School for Girls Chicago. Following graduation, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. While training professionally, she was featured on a variety of television and radio shows, including Joe Bolton’s, “Open House,” the Chicago television production “Hawkins Falls” and more than a dozen productions of “Studio One.” She spent two summers in summer-stock productions at the Chevy Chase Theatre and sang for two summers alongside Etta Moten, the original Bess from Broadway’s Porgy and Bess, at the Chicago Fair. Following a chance meeting at a cocktail party in New York, Merle auditioned for Richard Rogers, and landed the role of Ensign Janet MacGregor in the Broadway production of “South Pacific.” After her run on Broadway, she made a children’s television pilot entitled, “Wonder Window.” Merle transitioned into a life of philanthropy after her whirlwind courtship and marriage to the love of her life, her late husband Harold Reskin, a Chicago-area real estate entrepreneur. The two became generous patrons of the arts, establishing the Merle Reskin Theatre at DePaul University and The Merle Reskin Garage Theatre at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, in addition to years of the generous support of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Ravinia Festival, and Writers’ Theatre – among countless others.

Obituaries and images may be submitted to your Patch for publication: Deerfield, Evanston, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff-Lake Forest, Niles-Morton Grove, Northbrook, Skokie, Winnetka-Glencoe-Northfield, Wilmette-Kenilworth

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