North Shore Death Notices: Oct. 31 - Nov. 6

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.

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Avenue in Lake Forest

Elliot Robert "Bob" Moore, 83, Lake Forest
Service Dec. 4

Tina M. Jackson, 97, Lake Forest
Service Nov. 17

Scott Ellis Stacke, 53, Lake Bluff
Service Nov. 17

Sharlee M. Frey, 97, Lake Forest

Robert F. "Bob" Beine, 90, Lake Forest

Julia Rose Braun, 90, Lake Forest

Gayle Lillian McDowell Stetson, Lake Forest

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

Judith Brandonisio, 66
Services pending.

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

Virginia Armstrong Carroll, 89, Evanston
Mass Nov. 8

Robin Joyce Callahan, 54, Wilmette
Celebration Nov. 8

Augusto S. "Mario", "Gus" Gomez, 91, Chicago
Visitation Nov. 9, Service Nov. 10

Violeta Gramajo, 56, Skokie
Visitation and Service Nov. 11

Wanda Smith, 98, Evanston

Pearl Z. Newman, 91, Skokie

Jean Ellen Curtin née Stewart, Glenview, 93

William W. Sievers, 82, Winnetka

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Juanita M. Rector née Eastwood, 85, Morton Grove
Visitation and Service Nov. 6

Samuel J. Russell, 84, Skokie
Service Nov. 11

Maria J. Rodriguez née Saboya, 95, Skokie

Fusae Nakanishi née Matsumiya, 91, Skokie

Malvika Pandya née Joshi, 69, Chicago

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster Street in Morton Grove

Anton "Tony" Pagos, 80, Morton Grove
Service Nov. 6

John Joseph Lyman, 90, Morton Grove

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

Carole Garlin née Crafton, 76
Service Nov. 7

Iosif Prosyak, 89
Service Nov. 7

Scott Allan Gale, 59
Service Nov. 7

Linda Balkin, 70
Service Nov. 6

Allen Schwartz, 89
Service Nov. 6

Ethel Ganbarg, 101

Alex Zletz, 98

Rose Hundert, 92

Dr. Donald P. Jacobs, 90

Doris Wolin, 80

Marian Rohde née Blackman, 74

Featured Obituary:

Gayle Lillian McDowell Stetson died in Lake Forest on October 29. A private person, and a traditional woman of her generation, she would never have revealed her age and vehemently refused whenever asked. Her generation grew up in the Roaring Twenties, experienced the Great Depression – though she herself insisted she lacked for nothing – and watched young men go off to the Second World War.

After graduating from her upper Midwestern, home-town college in Fargo, ND, all was upbeat Big Band jazz. It was then she met John, a tall, MIT-educated ensign with movie-star good looks and sense of humor, and life became advancement and adventure.

They believed they were indeed the “Greatest Generation” and were blessed with good health and good fortune.

Gayle became mother to three cooperative children and wife to a business executive whose curiosity and business acumen took them all over the country and world.

She reveled in John’s success and enjoyed making new homes from Winnetka to Teheran, San Marino CA, Houston, Aspen, a Watergate penthouse, a Lake Shore Drive address, and ultimately Lake Forest.

They learned to ski, became enthusiastic collectors of the art of their generation, and avidly supported orchestras wherever they lived, especially the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for which John served as Life Trustee.

Gayle had a terrific singing voice, a great sense of style and an eye for decorating and renovating, in which she was able to indulge at each successive residence.

Cooking was also a passion to the extent of accepting galley duties on Lake Michigan weekends and farther ports while sailing bareboat.

Her husband, The Honorable John Charles Stetson, and older daughter, Sherry Stetson Harms, predeceased her. Survivors include her son Robert (Cynthia Stetson) Stetson, her daughter Susan (Dr. Alan David Vertrees) Stetson Vertrees, grandchildren Curt Harms, Dr. Chess (Jennifer Crucius Stetson) Stetson, Greta Stetson, Kathleen Stetson, Alexander (Emily Finlay Vertrees) Vertrees, and Peter Vertrees, and great-grandchildren Bruce Stetson, Hugh Stetson and Lee Stetson.

• via Wenben Funeral Home

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