North Shore Death Notices: July 4 To July 10

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

Ronald Gold, 80, Glenview
Service July 13

Arline Edelstein, 87, West Palm Beach, Florida
Service July 14

Arlene Levin, 93, Northbrook

Shaney Lee Goldstein, 91, Chicago

Elaine Stolper, 87, Chicago

Leah Kranczer, 86, West Palm Beach, Florida

Donald Statland, 84, Glencoe

Boris Vildaver, 71, Long Grove

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

John W. O’Brien, 68, Winnetka
Visitation July 13, service July 14

George A. Dadian, 97, South Barrington
Visitation July 14, service July 15

Raymond Roland Pesavento, 73, Glencoe

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Josephine F. Pompilio, 100, Skokie
Service July 13

Brian J. Glynn, 76, Glenview
Service July 15

Ronald A. Ammon, 89, Skokie
Service July 16

Julian L. “Duke” Fritts, 75, Glenview

Mary Jane L. Blumenfeld née Butzen, 74, Glenview

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Carl Parker, 57, Skokie
Visitation July 14, service July 15

Vinettie Adkins, 101, Evanston

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Samuel "Sam" George Goss, 62, Evanston

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

Marianne O’Reilly Collins, 75, Lincolnshire
Service July 15

Alma Joel Labunski, 88, Morton Grove
Service July 23

Cheng-Jen Cho, 81, Vernon Hills
Service July 30

Julia Jewell, 103, Glenview

Dorothy J. Rodgers Bieniek, 98, Glenview

Thomas J. Przybylski, 80, Northbrook

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Bertha Shadeed, 92, Glenview

Robert Fredrick Nix, 81, Chicago

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

Irina McCarthy, 35, Highland Park
Service July 12

Sandra Hiermann, 83, Niles
Service July 14

Jay D. Chazen, 37, Evanston
Service July 14

Carol Xenia Melnick née Brenner, 91, Northbrook

Michael “Mike” Glass, 74, Chicago

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

Robert G. Fiocchi, 89, Lake Forest
Service July 15

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

Josephine Marian Galassini, 95, Highwood
July 16

Garry “Big Daddy” Galassini, 66, Zion
Service July 16

Mason Louis Two Crow, 38, Chicago
Service July 16

Gerardo Rascon, 78, Chicago

Scott R. Goldstein, 57, Antioch

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Barbara Keilwitz Sheppard, 74, Lake Forest
Service July 14

Katherine “Kathy” Fiechtl McCombs, 72, Lake Forest
Service July 23

Featured Obituary:

Vinettie Adkins was born March 17, 1921 in Gulfport Mississippi to parents Myria Powell McNair and Arter McNair. She grew up on a pleasant farm with two older siblings where she had her own horse. She was so small that the horse would bend down for her to grab its mane and hoisted up onto its back when she wanted to ride.

Vinettie often talked about having fun on the farm and specifically the broken Model-T that the kids would push up the hill and get in and let it roll down the hill. It was their own amusement park ride.

She remembered visiting her grandmother's grocery store where she picked up pickles, crackers, and sardines. Her grandmother also sold honey from her beehives and Vinettie enjoyed watching the bees from afar. It was a rare occurrence for black woman to own a store even through it was very small.

Her early life on the farm taught Vinettie many skills, most notably to her grandchildren was her homemade jelly from grapes she grew in her backyard. In 1938, Vinettie married Robert Adkins and mover North to Evanston, Illinois during the Great Migration after first trying out Chicago. Evanston had a country feel and was "much more quiet than the city" It remainded her of home. People were nice, neighbors care, it was a community. She told Robert, "This is the place."

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