North Shore Death Notices: Aug. 11 To Aug. 17

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.

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

Laurie Nath Reinstein, 87, Highland Park

Margaret L. Vena, 84, Highland Park

Julie Dianne Johansson, 72, Deerfield

Gretchen Callahan, 53, Deerfield

Brooke E. Lannert née Stirsman, 45, Gurnee

Reuland & Turnbough Funeral Home, 1407 North Western Avenue in Lake Forest

Thomas P. Gorter Jr., 87, Lake Forest

Susan Lynn DeMarie née Atwood, 74, Lake Forest

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Rabi Fuad Sulayman, 78, Highland Park

Scott Edward Nelson, 57, Barrington

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie and 195 N. Buffalo Grove Road in Buffalo Grove

Adeline Cohn née Ostrin, 104, Glenview

Warren J. Peters, 99, Northbrook

May B. Riederman née Rosner, 98, Lincolnshire

Irving Hirsh, 96, Evanston

Jean Radum, 95, Skokie

Donald Fogel, 94, Chicago

Doris F. Guthman née Feldmann, 91, Wilmette

Eudyce Steinberg, 91, Prospect Heights

Chaim Dov Keller, 90, Chicago

Robert F. Sherman, 89, Lincolnwood

Ruth Leeb née Herz, 83, Skokie

Mayya Aleksandrovna Butovetskaya, 82, Wheeling

Morton Zelickman, 80, Evanston

Sandra P. Fischmar, 77, Arlington Heights

Kay Goldberg, 77, Chicago

Donald Simpson, 77, Chicago

Richard Craig Wolin, 70, Goleta, California

Robert Dickerhoof, 64, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Mary Dunlap Doyle née Sheedy, 90, Chicago

Frances Duffy Fanning, 87, Winnetka

Daniel "Dan" Edward Moylan, 77, Glenview

Marcus Edens Butler, 70, Evanston

Robert James Lynch, 67, Wilmette

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Elizabeth Manhardt née Stang, 86, Chicago

Daniel H. Saura, 41, Northbrook

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

Mary R. Williams, 76, Evanston
Service Aug. 18

Joseph C. Laidlaw, 98, Evanston
Service Aug. 20

Willie Mae Gibert, 90, Evanston

Arthur Taylor, 81, Evanston

Sandra D. Hill, 70, Evanston

Loretta Veronica Morales, 68, Evanston

Evanston Funeral & Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Warren Gerhardt Peterson, 96, Evanston

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

Theodore "Ted" Halkin, 97, Evanston

Sheldon Arthur Yefsky, 88, Skokie

Marcia Lerner, 87, Highland Park

Howard Martin Preis, 73, Northbrook

Christine "Christie" Turpel, 31, Indianapolis

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Michael John Krause, 59, Mount Prospect
Service Aug. 18

Patrick J. Foy, 75, Niles
Service Aug. 19

Clement "Jim" Haberkorn Jr., 81, Morton Grove
Service Aug. 21

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

Robert Naylor, 93, Dahlonega, Georgia

Jean Marie Hills née Shevlin, 79, Northbrook

Henry “Hank” J. Wajda, 74, Glenview

Featured Obituary:

Laurie Nath Reinstein, wife, mother, patron and enthusiast of the arts, died Wednesday, August 12, in Highland Park. Laurie, a strong, brilliant and beautiful woman died peacefully at home after a brief illness. She is survived by her sister Marjorie Nath Ettlinger (Richard), her adoring three sons, Arie, Ernest (Mary Shea), and Joseph (Hannah Higgins), and five grandchildren, Evan (Claire Bedell), Lauren, Abigail, Zoë and Nathalie. She was predeceased by her husband, Alan Lee Reinstein, to whom she was happily married for 52 years.

Laurie was born March 21, 1933 in Chicago to Bernard and Ruth (Stein) Nath. She was fourth generation Highland Park, and spent summers leading a play group for neighborhood girls which was intended to become the girls’ companion day camp to Cuamba for Boys that was started by childhood friends.

Laurie attended Highland Park High School enthusiastically participating in field hockey, Penguins water ballet, excelled academically and met life-long friends. She attended Smith College in Northampton, MA where she graduated with honors. Her senior thesis was on the impact of Television on the political process and presciently foretold the role TV would have on Nixon’s appearance in the widely viewed Kennedy Nixon televised debate. The relevance of her thesis continues today with the impact of social media on our political discourse.

After graduating from Smith, Laurie lived in Chicago and worked as an editor and writer at Science Research Associates, SRA, which had just launched individualized classroom instruction with the iconic SRA cards, large boxes filled with color-coded cardboard sheets, used widely which many may recall.

At about this time, Laurie was set up on a blind date with Alan by one of her best friends, Mary Jane Mayer, who’s beau, Leonard (Buddy) Bezark was Alan’s best friend and cousin. As the story goes, Buddy and Alan spent the whole blind date giggling with each other and avoiding their dates. That would have been the end of it, but months later Laurie and Alan reunited at a mutual friend’s wedding and the two connected on their life-long love of literature, art, theater, dance, music, all things intellectual and cultural, and each other. They were married at Lake Shore Country Club on May 29, 1957, where Laurie was also club tennis champion in doubles in 1955.

Laurie devoted her life to raising her three boys, the arts and Highland Park. She served on the PTA, PTO, Friends of the Library, Highland Park Historical Society, and helped lead the Highland Park Community Drive. She supported Alan as a founding member of the Highland Park Community Foundation. Laurie was on the Women’s Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art for over two decades and a docent at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.

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