North Shore Death Notices: June 4 To June 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

Justine Green Wexner, 106, Chicago
Service June 11

Gersh Roytman, 91, Skokie
Service June 11

Martin Kanofsky, 74, Skokie
Service June 11

Elaine Helen Baron née Feldman, 100, Highland Park
Service June 13

John R. Janecek, 83, Vernon Hills
Service June 13

Jerome "Jerry" Emanuel Dinell, 97, Chicago
Service June 14

Esfir Sokolin née Teterev, 99, Vernon Hills

Evelyne Sternfeld, 96, Skokie

Marianne G. Handler née Greenfield, 93, Northbrook

Leonard Weiskirch, 89, Northbrook

Barbara Weisman, 88, Northbrook

Jerome Irving Dickstein, 87, Chicago

Allen A. Lefkovitz, 73, Deerfield

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Lester George King, 93, Evanston
Service June 12

Stanley Francis Stasch, 92, Chicago

James E. Mortell, 69, Skokie

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Matthew P. Hibner, 49, Skokie
Visitation June 11, service June 12

Jozef Swiadek, 74, Morton Grove
Service June 12

Sara A. “Sally” Round née Walsh, 86, Evanston
Service June 22

Hanabusa "Han" Tatsui, 98, Skokie

Kumarapuram N. "Prem" Parameswaran, 90, Evanston

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

Bonneka Anderson Banboo, 38, Chicago
Visitation June 14, service June 15

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

Ruth Bendorf, 98, Northbrook
Service June 11

Blyuma Polisskaya, 92, Des Plaines

Raya Margolin, 91, Northbrook

Alan M. Yaffe, 88, Deerfield

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

Nancy J. Schoknecht née Donzelli, 81, Glenview
Service June 11

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

Geraldine A. Zabinski, 88, Northbrook
Service June 13

Marc Anthony Austwick, 63, Lake Forest
Service June 17

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

Anselmo "Chemo" Carranza Sanchez, 25, Waukegan

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

Thalia S. Deneen, 93, Lake Bluff

Suzanne Marie Diekelman, 82, Lake Bluff

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Lisa Hathaway, 70, Lake Forest
Service June 28

Daniel “Danny” Ryan Abramson, 43, Glencoe

Featured Obituary:

Barbara Weisman, age 88, passed away peacefully on June 3, 2024. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Norbert Weisman; her daughters, Randy Reid Doane (Joseph Abram) and Ellen Weisman Strenger; and her five grandchildren, Rachel and Jeffrey Reid, and Jennifer, Larry, and Sara Strenger.

Barbara was a woman with incredible energy and spirit and strong opinions who lived her life to the fullest until it was slowly stolen away by Alzheimer’s Disease. Before her illness, Barbara loved traveling the world, gardening, spending time with her many friends and family, especially her grandchildren, as well as volunteering for the Chicago Botanic Gardens and Lincoln Park Zoo.

Barbara grew up in Chicago with parents Pauline and David Henry and her brother Chuck, all of blessed memory. She was extremely intelligent and skipped many grades, graduating from Von Steuben high school in 1952. She went to work as a secretary and started taking some college classes. Within a few years she met and fell in love with Norbert, who she met at a dance in Chicago.

Barbara soon had two baby girls. She delighted in her young children and initially devoted herself to being the perfect homemaker, sewing beautiful clothes and cooking delicious meals for her family. Then, in the 1960s, her life was transformed by the feminist movement, which she fervently embraced. Determined to have a career of her own, she went back to school, sometimes with her children in tow, and earned her college degree in teaching in 1970. Barbara also raised her girls to be fiercely and fearlessly independent. Her daughters still remember dancing around the living room to Helen Reddy songs like “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar,” which was played so often that they memorized the lyrics.

After becoming a teacher, Barbara began working at King Lab elementary school in Evanston, Illinois. She went on to pioneer the use of classroom computer technology in the Evanston schools and to serve as a negotiator for the teachers’ union. Along the way, she also became an avid tennis player, the leader of a highly successful investment club, a jewelry maker, and a passionate devotee of healthy eating way before it was “a thing.”

In retirement, Barbara delighted in her grandchildren, relishing all opportunities to babysit. She loved having them visit her while she served as a volunteer at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Her granddaughters also loved to play with Grandma’s bead collection, and Barbara showed the girls how to make necklaces and bracelets.

For the last 15 years of her life, Barbara was afflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease, which grew progressively worse over time. She and her husband moved from their longtime home in Skokie to an assisted living facility in Northbrook, and Norbert made caring for Barbara the center of his life. He insisted upon being Barbara’s primary caregiver until the couple reached their mid-80s, when the burden was simply too much for him. Subsequently, they were blessed with some wonderful caregivers.

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