North Shore Death Notices: Nov. 28 To Dec. 4

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

Thelma Solomon, 93, Deerfield
Service Dec. 6

Lewis Zelig Koch, 87, Evanston
Service Dec. 6

Tamara Satinsky, 83, Buffalo Grove
Service Dec. 6

Karen Bergman née Rosenzweig, 82, Northbrook
Service Dec. 6

Melvin Weitzman, 75, Chicago
Service Dec. 6

James "Jimmy" Kaplan, 72, Highwood
Service Dec. 6

Greg M. Woolridge, 64, Buffalo Grove
Service Dec. 6

George Meschel, 88, Chicago
Service Dec. 7

Alan L. Foss, 82, Buffalo Grove
Service Dec. 7

Mark Greenberg, 72, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Service Dec. 7

Charles M. Damore, 87, Scottsdale, Arizona
Service Dec. 17

Boris Flitsian, 95, San Diego

Sylvia Shabat, 95, Chicago

Bernice Rappoport née Epstein, 89, Highland Park

Yevgenia A. Galinskaya, 87, Prospect Heights

Judith C. Immergluck née Sklansky, 80, Northbrook

Miriam Kliot, 78, Grayslake

Mark Leshchinskiy, 76, Chicago

Phyllis Levy, 75, Chicago

Diane Kliebard Silverberg, 61, Evanston

Marina Stolper, 55, Des Plaines

Eliahu "Allie" Karbal, 34, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Alice S. Hessert, 82,
Service Dec. 9

David M. Agnew, 77, Wilmette
Service Dec. 14

Frances Lendway, 97, Palatine

Sara J. "Sally" Bredemann née Noonan, 95, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Peggy A. Hall-Heineman, 73, Chicago
Service Jan. 14

Barbara B. Flood née Burnett, 94, Niles

Charles A. Haag, 92, Skokie

John D. Keller, 83, Gurnee

Anita K. Ambardar, 78, Wilmette

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Nancy Massey née Clinkscale, 83, Evanston
Visitation Dec. 8, service Dec. 9

Brenda Joyce Bostick née Davis, 67, Evanston
Visitation Dec. 12, service Dec. 13

Albert Cornelius Louie, 29, Chicago

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

Natividad “Naty” Bascon, 87, Glenview
Visitation Dec. 9, service Dec. 10

Lucille Kohles Swift, 96, Waukee, Iowa
Services Dec. 10, Dec. 18

Consuelo Roth, 95, Glenview
Service Dec. 15

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Arlene Russell née Finnegan, 96, Chicago
Service Dec. 7

Martin G. Cox, 69, Skokie
Service Dec. 9

Ruby Doris Graf née Moore, 101, Glenview

Janice L. LeRoy, 79, Morton Grove

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

Karen Donaldson née Stone, 69, Chicago
Service Dec. 6

Susan J. Kowalski née Brodsky, 76, Evanston
Service Dec. 7

Ralph Sacks, 84, Chicago
Service Dec. 22

Lionel Howard Goldblatt, 93, Evanston

Donna Jane Graham née Bost, 92, Chicago

Eileen F. Greenberg née Langer, 80, Highland Park

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

Renata Biondi, 97, Highland Park
Service Dec. 7

Eleanor L. Botker, 92, Highland Park

Leo Zombolo, 90, Highland Park

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

Midred Maxine Santi née Shay, 88, Vernon Hills

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

John F. Lussen, 80, Lake Forest
Visitation Dec. 12, service Dec. 13

Featured Obituary:

Lewis Zelig Koch, age 87, beloved husband of Joanne nee Schapiro, loving father of Lisa (Michael Kornick), Rachel (Daniel Ernst) Koch and Joshua (Jane Boegel) Koch, proud grandfather of Zachary, Sophie, Ann, Matthew, Samantha, Rose and Olivier, dear brother of Michael (Marilyn) Koch

Lewis Z. Koch was born on August 11, 1935, to Sidney and Blanche Koch. Lewis began writing freelance articles and book reviews before signing on with Chicago’s renowned cooperated press agency City News Bureau, where Koch was proud to follow graduates like Seymour Hersh and Mike Royko, the beloved columnist, with whom Lew was close.

In 1963, he fast-talked his way into a party for his hero Nelson Algren, persuading an inexperienced junior publicist at the University of Chicago Press that he had mistakenly been left off the guest list. At the party, he set eyes on the publicist, née Joanne Shapiro, and fell in love at first sight, a story he loved to tell again and again. They were married the next year, after a romantic proposal on a helicopter ride around Chicago. Their first child, Lisa, was born in 1965. Rachel came two and a half years later, then a son, Josh, in 1969.

Koch had by then moved to NBC News’s Chicago office. He covered radical politics in 1968, including the violence at the Democratic National Convention. Later, he was the first to report the death of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton as a murder rather than the result of a mutual shoot-out with police.

His career became quieter as a new decade dawned, hired by the Tribune with his wife Joanne to write a new kind of column, trading off as the authorial voice week to week, in jointly crafted columns on the challenges of raising a family that honored the post-1960s spirit of equality. What emerged was an extraordinary body of writing helping millions find solid ground amid the shifting sands of gender roles, sexual norms, and family arrangements, of the frustrating give-and-take of marriage as much as its transcendent joy.

The column, “Family Lib,” syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association to 200 papers across the country. In one column, Lew narrated how he demanded to be present in the delivery room when his son was born—a novel proposition at the time. “I hope, when the time comes, my son Josh will ask me if he should watch the birth of his child,” he wrote. “I would take such pleasure in describing how I watched his birth. I would tell him it was the most exhilarating, the most awesome experience I had ever had.”

By the time Joshua Koch had his own children, admitting fathers into delivery rooms had become routine. His own father had lit the way.

The writing team of Joanne and Lew Koch went on to co-author “The Marriage Savers” in 1976, a college sociology textbook, “Marriage and the Family,” and the six “Parents In-Touch” books, a million of which were distributed by the State of Illinois in 1990.

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