North Shore Death Notices: Sept. 12 To Sept. 18

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

Hubert Paraison, 85, Highland Park

Mark Anthony Battis, 63, Northbrook

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

Maurice Bobby Madison, 72, Chicago

Carl Alexander January, 58, Great Lakes

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Sandra Jean Ruehlman, 76, Lake Forest
Service Oct. 22

Beth Margaret Farlow, 51, Sun Prairie
Service Oct. 22

Elizabeth Kerwin Twede, 92, Lake Forest

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

Markus Kunin, 85, Glenview
Service Sept. 21

Debra Glass née Zelman, 63, Arlington Heights
Service Sept. 21

Bertha Lipton née Leib, 62, Lincolnwood
Service Sept. 23

Genya Kolodizner, 89, Chicago

Edwin M. Horak, 85, Deerfield

Gregg Robinson, 76, Skokie

Howard Stein, 74, Skokie

Rebecca K. Honorow, 70, Joliet

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Janet Patricia Thomas, 74, Wilmette
Service Sept. 20

Mary Jane Dolan, 81, Wilmette
Visitation Sept. 23, service Sept. 24

Richard J. Meneghello, 89, Wilmette
Service Sept. 24

Alexander "Bart" DeBartolo, 91, Glencoe

Robert C. Nash, 78, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Fred H. Tolzien, 96, Glenview

Stephen A. Snakard, 77, Winnetka

Jesse P. Silva, 65, Volo

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

Robert Carl Warskow, 89, Glenview
Service Sept. 24

Barbara Cooper Fowler, 88, Evanston
Visitation Sept. 30

Janet Hartke Metzger, 82, Northbrook
Service Sept. 30

Edward P. Pyterek, 87, Glenview
Visitation Oct. 21, service Oct. 22

John Muno Thinnes, 84, Niles

George H. Chandler, 78, Glenview

Joan Kay Giacobetti, 64, Northbrook

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Rosalia Doerner, 91, Morton Grove
Service Sept. 21

Norman Scott McCray, 70, Morton Grove

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

Helen Zaitz, 99, Northbrook

Yakov Abromovich Kruglyanskiy, 97, Chicago

Michael Altman, 84, Evanston

Ronna Sue Heftman, 74, Northbrook

Featured Obituary:

Sandra Jean Ruehlman, age 76, passed away in Lake Forest, IL on September 12, 2022 after a brief illness. Sandy was born on November 25, 1945 to parents Edward and Mabel Knippen, in Harvard, IL. Sandy grew up in Harvard with siblings Mary, Patricia, and Bernice and attended Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock, IL. She met and married the love of her life, David Ruehlman, in 1966 and together they moved to Janesville, WI where they went on to raise their two daughters Michelle and Beth. When the girls were still very young, she completed her college degree and received a BA from the school of education at University of Wisconsin Whitewater. Sandy taught 3rd grade at her beloved Brother Dutton Elementary School in Beloit, WI. In 1987, Sandy left teaching to join her husband Dave in the grocery business, and The Grand Food Center legacy began with the founding of their store in Winnetka, IL. For more than 20 years, Sandy and Dave spent their summers in Lake Forest, IL and winters in Estero, FL.

Anyone spending a few minutes with Sandy understood the joy she received and pride she felt for her family. She loved to entertain; whether it was decorating the house and baking cookies for Christmas, or sharing a Heineken while cheering on the Packers, she lit up the room with her smile and enthusiasm. Sandy lived for travel, especially the trips that took her overseas with good friends and the crazy cross country trips in the Honda Odyssey with the family. Shopping was her guilty pleasure, not only bargain hunting for herself, but spoiling her grandchildren before the start of a every new school year. Above all, she was a woman of faith who believed strongly in the power of prayer. She prayed daily for a long list of friends and family and was never above praying for a good parking spot.

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