North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 1 To Dec. 7

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

Luis E. Cardenas, 45, Deerfield
Visitation Dec. 10, service Dec. 12

Richard Ross "Dick" Osman, 83, Deerfield

Charles Robert "Bud" King, 79, Hoffman Estates

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

Domnica Iovin, 93, Chicago

Ilya Yefimov, 92, Chicago

Susan Diane McAtee, 70, Ingleside

Shirley Susan Reynolds née Tobeck, 67, Highland Park

Lenuta Serb, 66, Chicago

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Donald "Don" P. Brown, 84, Lake Forest
Service Dec. 11

Vernon George Smith, 83, Lake Bluff

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

Norman Bercoon, 96, Skokie

Paul Sol Greenman, 95, Northbrook

Georgia Lee Solovy née Pomerance, 91, Glenview

Lois Zollo née Clonick, 91, Highland Park

Sheldon Kopin, 90, Cincinnati

Tsipora Hahamy, 86, Chicago

Norman H. Carl, 84, Deerfield

Beba Zaprutskaya, 83, Des Plaines

Terri Cohan Jacobs, 82, Chicago

Barbara N. Klein née Turovitz, 82, Evanston

Joel David Shabsin, 77, Huntley

Bruce L. Shudnow, 75, Chicago

Alexander Bernstein, 72, Chicago

Marcia Ellyn Murillo née Umerleyo, 72, Des Plaines

Yitzchok Rosenberg, 69, Chicago

Joseph Weinshenker, 68, Chicago

Neal Ira Wasserman, 59, Gurnee

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Gloria J. Woods, 60, Chicago
Service Dec. 9

Virginia Beatrice Soden née Wiedt, 100, Bay Village, Ohio

Margot E. Jones née Alsberg, 96, Evanston

Thomas "Tom" Arnold Russell, 93, Evanston

Mary Louise Deppe, 92, Evanston

Joanne Heal née Lindgren, 92, Winnetka

Mary Ann Webb Victorn, 82, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Mary Pat Morrow, 68, Evanston
Service Dec. 12

Shirley L. Schultz née Milz, 95, Lake Zurich

Gnosi Doulas, 89, Skokie

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Marianna O. Broeker née Oehm, 97, Morton Grove

Helen M. O'Brien née Jaracz, 94, Niles

Thomas J. Speck, 80, Glenview

Gay V. Nowicki née Dawson, 73, Chicago

Cheri L. Howe, 49, Morton Grove

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

Gwen Kroehl Luecker, 104, Northbrook

Walter Arthur Suberg, 100, Glenview

Virginia A. Leimetter, 94, Northbrook

Mary F. Allen, 89, Northbrook

Donald Cameron Clark, 89, Lake Forest

Badriya Behnam Hanna, 87, Glenview

Vivian Spelina née Berninger, 86, Morton Grove

Scott Wessberg Woodcock, 62, Prospect Heights

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Valerie Schiff, 89, Evanston

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

Brian Craig Friedler, 63, Chicago
Service Dec. 9

Gerald "Jerry" Carson, 102, Chicago

Werner Heimann, 99, Lincolnwood

Eleanor Rosen, 97, Lincolnwood

Lorraine R. Schulman née Ross, 92, Chicago

Ann M. Buxbaum, 91, Buffalo Grove

Aleksandr Iontov, 91, Hawthorn Woods

Ruth H. Berg, 90, Chicago

Phylis J. Banish, 89, Chicago

Sonya R. Abrahamson née Shapiro, 87, Highland Park

Mikhail Polyak, 87, Chicago

Zoya Lelchuk, 86, Chicago

Michael Kohn, 84, Highland Park

Viktor Kurganskiy, 83, Chicago

Diane Lublin, 68, Wheeling

Glen Samuel Muller, 57, Highland Park

Featured Obituary:

Margot E. Jones (nee Alsberg), born June 5, 1924, in Hamburg, Germany, passed away peacefully of natural causes on November 27, 2020. Margot’s passion for life started as she grew up in Hamburg skating, playing the piano, going to the opera, and learning English. Margot and her sister Frances Rose (nee Alsberg) enjoyed lovely parties hosted by their politically active and progressive Jewish parents. The day after Margot’s 15th birthday, June 6, 1939, three months before WWII began, she left her parents forever on a Kindertransport train and boat to England, as her sister had done seven months prior. With great foresight, Margot’s parents had arranged for Mrs. Jane Williams to care for Margot as her guardian. When Mrs. Williams passed, her son Colonel “Uncle” Ainslie and his wife “Auntie” Hilda Williams became Margot’s guardians, taking good care of her through young adulthood.

Margot was sent to boarding school in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, but when WWII started, she could not stay, as it was in a “protected area” near the English Channel. Margot was sent to a nice hostel in London with friendly people. When bombs blew the roof off the building, Margot’s school was evacuated to Wales. Margot learned that her parents were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Margot’s strength and courage saw her through the war.

When she finished school, Margot joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's branch of the British Army, for several years, where she drove a huge army personnel truck, with a manual transmission, retrieving and delivering requested tools and machinery. While in the ATS, Margot often took the train back to Winchester to spend weekends with her guardians. When returning to camp on the train, she met Chief Petty Officer William (Bill) Jones. He was cracking jokes, and she tried to hide her laughter behind a newspaper she was reading. They were married two years later in 1949 when Margot was 25. They enjoyed life in the London area for 17 years, where Margot was a typist for a textile company, Bill repaired fine watches, and they had their two children, Julian and Vivienne.

In 1966, the family moved to Evanston, IL, to be closer to Margot’s relatives. During their happy 61 years of marriage, they danced at every opportunity, traveled the world, and were adopted by the local Swedish male chorus community. From selling Avon products to being a loyal Marshall Field’s salesperson for almost 30 years to being an active part of her husband and children’s lives, Margot was beloved. In 1997, Margot and her family returned to Hamburg for the first time, hosted by the local government, which was an extraordinary experience for all.

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