North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 20 To Dec. 26

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

Barbara Ann O’Connell née Talbott, 93, Highland Park
Service Dec. 28

John Leonard Duchane, 91, Highwood
Service Jan. 8

Charles Edward Keller, 92, Lincolnshire

Justin Philip Hayes, 40, Deerfield

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

Mary Bacci née Pasquesi, 88, Highland Park
Service Dec. 29

Adelina Huerta Rangel, 83, Round Lake Beach
Visitation Dec. 29, service Dec. 30

Minerva Tushe née Poshi, 86, Park Ridge

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

Michael B. Warren, 85, The Villages, Florida
Service Dec. 29

Parker Lee "P-Lee Fresh" Williams, 54, Chicago
Service Dec. 30

Kenneth "Crocko" Weinberger, 78, Lincolnshire

Arie Kiselevitz, 74, Deerfield

Ava Lynn Rieger née Grefenson, 71, Chicago

Blanche Shapiro, 71, Buffalo Grove

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Emilia “Mimi” Rice, 81, Highland Park
Service Dec. 29

Rudy Malnati, 65, Lake Forest
Visitation Dec. 29, service Dec. 30

Margaret "Peggy" Krasberg Mason, 82, Northfield
Service Dec. 30

William H. Byerley, 82, Chicago
Visitation Dec. 30, service Dec. 31

Joseph H. McGarvey, 89, Glenview
Service Jan. 7

Denny Niles, 73, Winnetka
Service Jan. 15

Robert “Bob” Allen Hastings, 86, Evanston

Louise Alexander, 84, Skokie

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Edward R. Czaja, 94, Grayslake
Service Dec. 28

Andrew Wayne Kunkel, 97, Northbrook
Service Dec. 29

Kathryn A. McElligott née Hester, 94, Glenview
Service Dec. 29

Teodoro D. Evangelista, 82, Skokie

Charles R. Aufdenkampe, 76, Chicago

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave., in Evanston

Alice Peppers, 84, Evanston
Visitation Dec. 29, service Dec. 30

Gennipha H. Rates, 55, Chicago
Visitation Dec. 29, service Dec. 30

Diane Davis, 68, Evanston
Visitation Dec. 29

Williams Perkins, 30, Evanston

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

David Solomon, 94, Northbrook

Richard Stephen Lang, 77, Evanston

John Allen Owens, 73, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Mauro B. Gonzales, 84, Glenview
Service Dec. 30

Edward S. Guziec, 96, Morton Grove

Zenaida Alegre, 73, Skokie

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

Dorothy T. Bogner née Mulcrone, 93, Glenview
Service Dec. 28

Rebecca Deidre Ann Gordon née Sieh, 70, Lake Forest

David Michael Schmadebeck, 55, Prospect Heights

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

Salomon Amar, 98, Chicago

Klara Levitskaya, 95, Vernon Hills

Elaine Glaesner, 92, Glencoe

Rhoda L. Frank née Goldman, 88, Chicago

Grace Kaminkowitz, 86, Chicago

David Silberberg, 76, Highland Park

Featured Obituary:

John Leonard Duchane Jr., 91, of Highwood, IL, passed away December 27, 2021. The Duchane family is one of the oldest in Highwood according to the Highwood Historical Society.

He peacefully joined his wife Yolonda Eleanor DeSanto Duchane in the “Sweet by and by,” after a brief separation marked by her passing this past September.

Born in Highwood Il, on August 28, 1930 to Helen Lanigan Duchane and John Leonard Duchane Sr., John was the product of a generational military family.

His grandfather, G. Leonard Duchane, was a member of the 4th Cavalry and fought against the Apache Indians led by Geronimo. After a brief stint out of the Army, he re-enlisted and was assigned to Ft. Sheridan. He fought in WWI and is buried in Ft. Sheridan Cemetery. His father, John Leonard Sr., served in WWII and was killed on Leyte Island in the Philippines when John Jr. was just 14 years old. John Sr. is buried in Leyte.

John Jr. attended St. James School and later St. George High School. With his father gone at a young age, he and his mother Helen managed the best they could. She worked full time, and John worked at a local animal hospital to bring in extra income. John later enlisted in the Marine Corps but did not serve overseas as he was the single son of a widowed mother, and the Sullivan Act prevented him from serving in a war zone. Instead, he served his hitch in Barstow, California.

By then, John had married Yolonda Eleanor DeSanto. Their meeting was the result of a blind date Lonnie’s friend arranged. On that date, John and Lonnie began a relationship that would last 75 years. They married after a five-year courtship in 1951 and celebrated 70 years of marriage on Sept. 8, 2021.

John was a career computer programmer who worked for IBM, Cites Service, and Klienschmidt prior to retiring from Abbott Labs. He was talented and well-liked by peers and superiors. He carried on a lifelong penchant for all things technological. In recent months, he even began using the Facetime app to interact with his son’s family in Florida.

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