North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 19 To Dec. 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.

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

Gwen K. Packard, 83, Northbrook
Service Dec. 28

Shawn Jason Sockel, 45, Vernon Hills
Service Dec. 28

Mary Lou Rogoff née Schrock, 88, Chicago
Service Dec. 29

Alan Bramson, 81, Glenview
Service Jan. 6

Elaine Friedman née Becker, 99, Lincolnwood

Jean Kahn Lutz Isador, 95, Lake Forest

Judith E. Shapiro née Hazen, 95, Skokie

Mona Nadine Sklamberg née Olswang, 92, Glenview

Dorothy Starkman née White, 92, Highland Park

Galina Voloshina, 92, Chicago

Juliette L. Richman née Drechsler, 91, Chicago

Dolores Meadow Christoph, 90, Libertyville

Sharlene F. Silver née Schwartz, 88, Glenview

Sarah Leah Small, 88, Deerfield

Sandra Elaine Rosenbaum née Klein, 83, Chicago

Simon Fainshtein, 81, Buffalo Grove

Bennett E. "Ben" Koffman, 81, Lincolnwood

Howard M. Cohen, 78, Chicago

Janis Cooperman Levine, 73, Skokie

Richard David Rubin, 66, Morton Grove

Daniel Spielman, 65, Buffalo Grove

William “Bill” Murray, 64, Buffalo Grove

Reuven Gross, 63, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Anna M. “Nuna” Rossi née Bianchi, 87, Northbrook
Service Dec. 28

Peggy Anne Pisani née Kiely, 82, Park Ridge
Service Dec. 28

Carl Anderson "Andy" Hedberg, 87, Wilmette

Joseph H. Kroschel, 87, Wilmette

Caroline Seeley McClough, 85, Northbrook

Kazimiera "Kazia" Kaczorowski, 78, Wilmette

Davina Maria Reedy, 16, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Blanca C. Gonzalez née Roman, 92, Skokie
Visitation Dec. 29, service Dec. 30

Sigrid H. Pilgrim, 78, Evanston

Richard J. Dux, 69, Skokie

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Elender G. Bailey, 85, Evanston
Visitation Dec. 28, service Dec. 29

Merinord Denosar, 57, Chicago
Visitation Dec. 29, service Dec. 30

Eugal Henry, 86, Evanston
Service Jan. 20

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Bartholomew Francis Reid, 86, Evanston

Lynn Dora Polite, 70, Evanston

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

Semsa Besic, 89, Skokie
Service Dec. 28

Therese S. Tirpak née Mika, 91, Glenview
Visitation Dec. 30, service Dec. 31

Saban Torlo, 79, Chicago

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Patricia C. Jascot née Sherman, 78, Des Plaines

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

Beverly Persky née Lipsky, 91, Highland Park
Service Dec. 28

Dorothy Kavka née Cooperman, 82, Evanston
Service Dec. 28

Boris Garber, 67, Vernon Hills
Service Dec. 28

Harold Victor Stotland, 81, Chicago
Service March 12

Jack Joseph, 95, Chicago

Clara Foreman, 93, Skokie

Marlene Hoit née Peskind, 88, Deerfield

Neal Alan Mancoff, 83, Wilmette

David B. Schulman, 83, Highland Park

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

Aurelio Yanez, 44, Ingleside
Service Dec. 28

Francisco Salazar "Barbacuas" Hernandez, 78, Waukegan

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Merrianne Pinello, 79, Lake Forest

Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home, 1787 Deerfield Road in Highland Park

Mary C. Glowiak, 64, Buffalo Grove
Service Dec. 29

Paulita Baez-Carrion, 92, Deerfield

Patricia Marchetti, 84, Highland Park

Featured Obituary:

Dorothy Kavka (née Cooperman) was born into a large, loving matriarchal Jewish family, and with her sister Myra grew up on the north side of Chicago. Her father Saul Cooperman was an immigrant from Manchester UK who doted on his two girls. Her mother Evelyn was a Chicago native who imparted a strong work ethic to her two daughters. Dorothy was a fierce protector of her sister who often told stories about how her big sister looked after her by chasing away the school bullies.

Dorothy graduated from Senn High School in Chicago where she was a proud member of the Future Teachers of America. She attended the University of Chicago, the first member of her family to attend college, majoring in English literature. It was there that she met Stephen Kavka, at a student activity to plan the University’s Festival of the Arts. After college, Dorothy attained a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in English literature, and then returned to Chicago to take up a position teaching high school English – first as a trainee at Mather High School and then as a full-time teacher at Tuley High School (now Roberto Clemente HS) and later Pestalozzi-Froeble Teachers College (now part of National Louis University).

During this time she married Stephen and started her family. With three children she decided to stop working and devote her time to raising the children but remained active joining the parent-teacher’s association of the Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago and becoming the PTA president. Once the children had attained some degree of independence, Dorothy formally re-entered the workforce as an editor at McDougall Littel in Evanston, where she learned the emerging field of desktop publishing. Dorothy went on to open her first publishing business, Newsletters Unlimited, working out of the sun porch of her Evanston home. This business flourished and eventually became a full-fledged small publishing house with its own premises, Evanston Publishing, which she ran for many years – initially in Evanston and later in Louisville Kentucky - until her retirement. Dorothy wrote and published three books about publishing, most notably The Successful Self-Publisher.

Outside of work, Dorothy maintained a rich creative life. As a teenager, she took drawing classes at the Art Institute of Chicago where her native artistic talent was recognized and encouraged. As an adult, she honed her style by attending master classes with well-known Chicago artists Ed Paschke and Lillian Desow-Fishbein. Through this training, she developed her distinctive style which deconstructs the female form into primordial biologic shapes, with rich celebratory color palates. Dorothy has exhibited widely through private galleries in Louisville Kentucky.

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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