North Shore Death Notices: May 22 To May 29

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

Sanford A. "Sandy" Bank, 92, Highland Park
Service June 2

Joel H. Farber, 88, Skokie
Service June 2

Jonathan "Yoni" Goldsmith, 64, Las Vegas
Service June 3

Rachelle Deborah Golden, 40, Chicago
Service June 3

Ruth Kolodny, 98, Chicago

Sherwin A. Marks, 94, Northbrook

Irma F. Spielberg, 94, Palatine

Doris K. Pliskin, 92, Lincolnwood

Allen Rafalson, 92, Gurnee

Phineas Aryeh Stolper, 90, Chicago

Sandra Schwartz, 87, Evanston

Harvey L. Coustan, 82, Evanston

Ronald Swartz, 76, Evanston

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Arthur F. "Sonny" Marziani, 81, Glenview
Service June 1

Loretta Alice Meyers née Walsh, 102, Wilmette
Visitation June 1, service June 2

Dorothy Ann Culhane Clarke, 90, Wilmette
Visitation June 1, service June 2

Thomas Canafax, 85, Wilmette
Service June 3

Cynthia Brooks Holmberg, 87, Glenview
Service June 9

Dana Kathryn Fallon née Bindo, 52, Kenilworth
Service June 10

Mildred Pauline Lodarek née Marchuk, 99, Glenview

Adela "Adelita" Gomez, 96, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Brian P. Gieler, 75, Skokie
Service June 4

Juaniclande “Juani” Noel, 23, Skokie
Visitation June 5, service June 6

Jacqueline Krump, 101, Chicago
Service June 11

Dagmar Kostyniuk, née Hrubos, 91, Skokie

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Sylvia Jean Eleanor Tiabo Pitts, 89, Evanston
Visitation June 3, service June 4

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Carzell Eason, 73, Zion
Service June 1

Lorraine M. Dulin, 86, Evanston
Service June 2

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

Daniel J. Houlé, 67, Roselle
Service June 1

Alexandra “Alice” Barbarigos née Spiropoulos, 87, Glenview

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Sheila Ann Meyer née Crowley, 82, Wilmette
Service June 18

Carol Oraham, 88, Morton Grove
Visitation June 1, service June

Elaine L. Kaluzny, 91, Morton Grove

Alan Trippi, 70, Morton Grove

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

Robert Schwartz, 97, Chicago
Service June 2

Maxine K. Jacobson née Kachel, 93, Skokie

Phyllis Stone, 93, Vernon Hills

Judith Vera Western née Lippert, 79, Lake Villa

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

Nancy L. Kerrigan, 86, Deerfield
Visitation June 3, service June 4

William “Truk” Trukenbrod, 82, Lake Forest
Service June 5

Connie May Lindsley, 99, Deerfield

Janice Meeg Johnson, 90, Highland Park

Featured Obituary:

Cynthia Brooks Holmberg, age 87 of Glenview, Illinois, passed away peacefully with family at her side on May 27 shortly after suffering a hematoma and fall.

Cynthia was born on the south side of Chicago on October 8, 1934, to parents Henry and Edna. She graduated as valedictorian from Hirsch High School in 1952 and continued to DePauw University where she met husband Ron. Cynthia was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa upon graduating with a BA in 1956. She and Ron married later that same year and were inseparable for the next 66 years.

After marriage, Cynthia and Ron moved to Aberdeen, Maryland, where Ron was in the service and Cynthia taught elementary school. When Ron’s term ended in 1957, they moved back to the Chicagoland area to be near family, first to LaGrange where she continued to teach until she became a mother, then to Park Ridge, before settling in Wilmette and their home of 40 years. For the past 11 years, Cynthia and Ron have lived at the Vi at the Glen in Glenview.

Family was Cynthia’s pride-and-joy, and she relished being the wife and helpmate to Ron and a mother to the kids. Unfailingly present at conferences, sporting events, concerts, and nearly every other event in everyone’s lives to show her support, she took great pleasure in providing any kind of sustenance -- from meals to wisdom -- on a daily basis (which quite literally never stopped up to her last day). A go-to for more than just family, she seemed always to have volunteered for something. In her last volunteer role, she served five years on the board of the Bright Futures Foundation (a residents-sponsored scholarship fund for employees of the Vi) and was the board's Secretary until last year. Cynthia was never not busy. (“Bored people are boring people.”) In addition to being an artisan in the kitchen, garden, and with a needle, Cynthia never wasn’t reading a book and authored four books herself. But she loved music most and loved to sing. For nearly 80 uninterrupted years she participated in a choral group, including with the performing group Sunshine and in the choir at Northfield Community Church into her 80s.

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