North Shore Death Notices: Sept. 4 To Sept. 11

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

Dora V. Sieben, 85, Lincolnshire
Service Sept. 20

Ed Szyman, 97, Lincolnshire
Service Sept. 23

Helene Van Hulle, 90, Highland Park

Jean Annette Morton née Irwin, 84, Highland Park

Jennifer Leigh Jewell, 53, Chicago

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

Dolores Mae Bumgardner, 89, Great Lakes
Service Sept. 13

Richard Alfred Morbidoni, 89, Glenview
Visitation Sept. 13, service Sept. 14

Robert Thomas Sublette, 86, Chicago
Service Sept. 15

Kenneth Edward Lipski, 76, Antioch
Service Sept. 16

Janie LaGarda, 96, Liberty, South Carolina

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Jeanne Bernardin, 78, Lake Forest
Service Sept. 15

Wilfred "Wil" Chensun Ling, 94, Lincolnshire

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

Elizabeth “Betsy” Winslow Wagner, 80, Glen Arbor, Michigan
Service Sept. 15

Sheldon “Shelly” Prais, 84, Libertyville
Service Oct. 29

Diane Weiland, 85, Lake Forest

Philip M. Scaccia, 77, Lake Forest

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

Robert Arthur Romanoff, 84, Northbrook
Service Sept. 13

Neil A. Rosen, 76, Northbrook
Service Sept. 13

Mitchell Fisher, 54, Chicago
Service Sept. 13

Neal R. Tyson, 81, Deerfield
Service Sept. 13

Yakov Brodsky, 89, Niles

Arnold I. Kramer, 89, Chicago

Renée Schwartz Hirsh, 83, Highland Park

Ellen Rose Freedman, 82, Olympia Fields

Nancy Baer Kessler, 81, Dunwoody, Georgia

Arthur Shapiro, 79, Morton Grove

Marni Beth Raben née Wichman, 50, Highland Park

Harry James "Jim" Darwin Santoro, 45, Skokie

Stephanie Rachel Bakrins, 32, Buffalo Grove

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Cheryl Chambers, 79, Winnetka
Visitation Sept. 13, service Sept. 14

Kathleen S. Carroll née Schmiedeler, 55, Winnetka
Visitation Sept. 14, service Sept. 15

Barbara Clark née Barbara Edwards Knight, 91, Chicago
Service Sept. 21

Pamela Schmidt McNish, 78, Glenview
Service Sept. 23

Jean Eileen Kutten Kane, 96, Northfield
Service Sept. 29

Emily E. Koppelmeier, 105, Evanston

Ruth Ann Henning née Crubaugh, 81, Woodridge

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Helen Limperatos née Govostis, 93, Skokie
Service Sept. 13

Joseph Phillip Spreitzer, 86, Aurora
Service Sept. 30

Kenneth A. MacLeod, 89, Evanston

Amado A. Luz, 80, Skokie

Raymond O'Leary, 71, Evanston

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

Doc Cannon, 84, Evanston
Service Sept. 16

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Gayle Milton Webber, 92, Evanston

Timothy Frank Beckman, 40, Evanston

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

Irene Comyn née Van Steen, 97, of Glenview
Service Sept. 16

Gregory Michael Driscoll, 42, Northbrook
Service Sept. 17

Mary Frances Witte, 91, Culver City

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

Alan Richter, 64, Arlington Heights
Service Sept. 14

Louis Schliselfeld, 91, Niles
Service Sept. 15

James "Jim" Streicker, 78, Chicago
Service Sept. 17

Joan Loeb née Leshin, 92, Glenview

Lester Liby, 85, Frankfort

Steven S. Tarrson, 76, Chicago

Sharon R. Levine, 75, Niles

Alan A. Moss, 75, Highland Park

Featured Obituary:

Nancy Baer Kessler, age 81, of Dunwoody, Georgia passed away on September 6th after a 4-year battle with ovarian cancer. Nancy was born August 27, 1942, to Julie and G.F. Baer in Glencoe, Illinois. After she graduated from New Trier High School in 1960 she went on to study Education at Washington University in St. Louis. There she met her beloved, Alan Kessler, as he drove the carpool for the sorority girls performing in the Bearskin Follies variety show. Although Nancy's first impression of Alan was to tell her roommate, "Don't let me go out with him again," Nancy and Alan were wed in 1964 and enjoyed 59 beautiful years of marriage raising 2 children together. They spent those years creating a life in 14 different homes as they built a family and a career in Deerfield, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Michigan City, Indiana, Danville, Virginia and Dunwoody/Sandy Springs, Georgia. In each of those places, Nancy created an inviting home and a network of friends that became her second family. Many of those friends were made when Nancy was on the tennis courts and dancing up a storm with Alan in recreational square dance clubs. As her children grew, Nancy became increasingly involved in Jewish organizations. This included roles as President of the local Hadassah chapter, employee of Hadassah, President of Temple Jeremiah Sisterhood, Temple Jeremiah board member, and Beth Shalom Sunday school teacher. During her empty nesting phase, Nancy enjoyed working with her sister, Peggy Swartchild, at Peggy's store, Material Possessions. Simultaneously, Nancy was very involved with her children's activities and school groups. Her final move was to Dunwoody, Georgia where she became the Dunwoody Newcomers Club President. She made many wonderful friends in the Dunwoody community and enjoyed many years of mahjong and canasta games, clubs, water aerobics and pilates.

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