North Shore Death Notices: Sept. 25 To Oct. 1

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

Nancy Susan Wagner, 62, Evanston
Service Oct. 3

Clara Kornfeld née Marcus, 102, Evanston

Esona Wernick née Goldberg, 98, Skokie

Norine Gerson née Kaplan, 96, Skokie

Milton "Mickey" Lefton, 91, Chicago

Yevgeniya Plotkina, 87, Wheeling

Donald Manoff, 86, Northbrook

Rand Howard Gloger, 71, Glenwood

Boris Ladyzhensky, 71, Morton Grove

Matthew Richmond, 41, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Jean Wilson, 82, Glenview
Service Oct. 3

Patricia “Tish” Rose Gillam, 92, Wilmette
Visitation Oct. 3, service Oct. 4

Jack Grawoig, 79, Chicago
Service Oct. 4

William F. "Bill" Mooney, 79, Highland Park
Service Oct. 4

Ruth Foxwell Wenzel, 100, Evanston
Service Oct. 6

Terrence “Terry” R. Ryan, 76, Evanston
Service Oct. 6

Patrick Evans Pierre, 33, Skokie
Visitation Oct. 6, service Oct. 7

Margaret Stewart Roche, 93, Evanston
Service Oct. 7

Nicholas Theodore Liapes, 91, Lake Forest

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Anamarie Arndt née Carmody, 82, Evanston
Visitation Oct. 9, service Oct. 10

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Cecilia Kpekpe Pedro, 69, Evanston

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

William P. Feeley, 83, Hinsdale
Service Oct. 7

Paul Richard Larson, 92, Northbrook
Service Nov. 17

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

Lee Kite, 73, Northbrook
Service Oct. 3

Bernice Kessler née Levin, 101, Chicago

Paul Edelsberg, 98, Chicago

Sheila Beth Moss, 87, Normal

David Rakov, 87, Chicago

Marilyn F. Davis, 83, Glencoe

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

Bobby Elizabeth Peterson née Mooney, 94, Highland Park

Teresa Josephine Filippo, 86, Deerfield

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

Elizabeth Vega, 76, Berwyn
Service Oct. 3

Edward Charles Erwin, 65, Lindenhurst
Service Oct. 7

Virginia Mae Isaacs, 98, Chicago

Anthony "Geo" Giovanni Mijares, 28, Mundelein

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

Paul A. Baffico, 77, Lake Forest

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Julia “Judy” Anne Tinley Lenz, 80, Lake Forest
Service Oct. 21

Desmond R. "Dez" LaPlace, 91, Lake Forest

Richard Hestain Tracy, 89, Lake Forest

Ralph W. Stoll, 86, Lake Bluff

Featured Obituary:

Margaret Stewart Roche, a long-time resident of Evanston, Illinois, died on September 27, 2023. Born August 27, 1930, she was raised in Chicago, and graduated from Sullivan High School before receiving her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Northwestern University. Margaret cared for patients at Prentice and Children’s Memorial Hospitals in Chicago. In June 1953, she married her high school sweetheart, Pierre Dwyer Roche. Together, they raised six children in Evanston.

Marge had a lifelong commitment to Evanston. When she was just 31, with five children, she and a small group of neighbors formed the Dewey Community Conference to combat panic peddling, red-lining, and racial steering. The DCC was a dynamic force in Evanston for decades. Later, she served as the nurse for the Evanston YMCA Camp Echo girls’ camp for several summers in the 1970s, where she was “mother” to 200 campers and 30 young staff members. Throughout her life, countless former campers and staff members thanked Nurse Marge for the enormous positive influence she had on them.

Margaret wove art into everything in life. A founding member of the Evanston Figurative Art League and a member of the Evanston Art Center for more than 50 years, she forged friendships with fellow artists of all generations. Her love for nature, people, beauty, and bright colors is displayed in the thousands of works of art she leaves behind for her family and friends to cherish: hand-woven wall hangings and clothing; jewelry, oil paintings; line drawings handpainted with watercolors; lithographs; sculptures; hand-knitted sweaters; crocheted critters; clay sculptures; t-shirts hand-painted with leaves, and the more than one thousand hand-painted origami paper cranes she created during the pandemic lockdown.

After raising her family, Margaret traveled extensively. Her favorite destination was a remote village in Nepal, which she reached by a three-day trek in the mountains, even into her 80s.

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