North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 21 To Dec. 27

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

Antonio Sinicato, 85, Highwood

Jeffery Balmes, 64, Glenview

Peggy Gudbrandsen, 93, Lake Forest

Lucia “Lucy” Pasquesi Konsler, 91, Highland Park

Lucy Konsler, 91, Highland Park

Madelene McGuire, 86, Riverwoods

Jeffrey J. Balmes, 64, Glenview

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

Victor Peccioli, 82, Gurnee

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

Joan Russell Sparrow, 92, Lake Forest

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

Roslyn Weiner née Lyons, 86, Skokie
Service Dec. 29

John Gran, 76, Lincolnwood
Service Dec. 29

Ted Barkow, 83, Mount Prospect
Service Dec. 30

Sylvia Greengoss née Shulman, 103, Wilmette

Semen I. Rozin, 102, Chicago

Celia A. Horowitz, 98, Chicago

Shirley A. Levens née Addis, 95, Lincolnwood

Elaine Lieberman née Stein, 95, Chicago

Semen Fishbeyn, 93, Wheeling

Harvey Rubin, 93, Chicago

Larry A. Sharken, 92, Highland Park

Helen Snyder née Rapping, 91, Lake Forest

Stanley Sol Arden, 90, Lincolnshire

Beverley "Bubbles" Allen née Chasan, 90, Lincolnwood

Morris Buchler, 89, Wilmington

Robert Schwartz, 88, Lincolnwood

Charles Schwartz, 86, Skokie

Alexander Sokolover, 82, Northbrook

Joan Beth Beugen née Caplan, 77, Chicago

Frances Clara Goldenberg, 77, Chicago

Eduardo Gielis, 69, Chicago

Donna Sophier née Kaplan, 68, Lincolnwood

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Madeleine Smith née O'Reilly, 90, Glenview
Service Dec. 30

Orville B. "Bud" Powell, 96, Glenview

Betty Philips née Harper, 88, Evanston

Catherine “Cathy” Consuelo Van Pelt née Carrero, 84, Winnetka

Larry G. Seidell, 81, Skokie

John Vincent Lucas, 75, Lake Forest

Russell Nels Pallesen, 60, Chicago

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Maksymilian G. King, 89, Skokie

Gualberto M. Sagritalo, 83, Skokie

Honesto V. Aquino, 79, Skokie

Patrick Behrens, 64, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Frank W. Buck, 86, Morton Grove
Service Dec. 31

Stephen A. Molner, 78, Glenview

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

Verilyn “Lynn” Nani, 88, Glenview
Service Dec. 29

Ernst K. Janzen, 88, Northbrook
Service Dec. 31

Dave Chatfield Hawley, 87, Winnetka

John F. Simmons, 66, Algonquin

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Viola R. Cotton, 91, Chicago

Kenneth George Wellington, 86, Evanston

Paul George Kreuser, 59, Evanston

Jane Alexander Bosler, 49, Evanston

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

Samuil Fleytlikh, 93, Skokie

Anatoliy Usha, 93, Chicago

Jean E. Flax née Lentin, 91, Highland Park

Helen Wiseman née Platt, 90, Glenview

Robert C. "Poppy" Kanter, 89, Round Lake Beach

Lyna Stevens Morgan, 88, Chicago

Marvin S. Lansky, 81, Chicago

Daniel R. Lee, 78, Chicago

Milton Koppelman, 72, Chicago

Susan Salvin, 72, Charlotte, North Carolina

Featured Obituary:

Lucia “Lucy” Pasquesi Konsler, best known as Nana to her family, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 15th. She was 91 years old.

Lucy was born in Highland Park, IL on June 6, 1929. She married the love of her life, Carl Konsler, right out of high school. Together they had four children to whom she was deeply devoted throughout her life: Carole, David, Gail, and Kathy. In addition to her children, she had a special relationship with their spouses. She always treated them as if they were her children and they treated her as if she was one of their parents.

Lucy was always proud of how blessed she was to have such a large extended family. She was very close to her younger brother Gasparino “Goppo” and was so proud of his accomplishments in life. Lucy's best friend in life was her older sister Carole. There were two peas in the pod and everyone in Highwood and Highland Park knew them as the “Pasquesi Gals”. Their relationship grew even closer over the past 30 years after the loss of their husbands. They would eat dinner together every night, host card games for their friends, and even vacation together. Wherever you saw Lucy, Carole was right there beside her. Other than being close to her siblings, Lucy was proud to be a member of the Pasquesi family, and being a Pasquesi meant you had a lot of cousins. Every year in June, she would look forward to celebrating her entire family at the Pasquesi picnic at Centennial Park in Highland Park. Lucy also enjoyed her many trips over the years to Kentucky to visit the Konsler family.

She was “Nana” to twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, with one more expected in 2021. A birthday never passed without wishes for a good year for whoever in the family had a birthday. If she didn’t get a hold of you when she called, you would be sure to find a voicemail, always ending with the line, “you don’t have to call me back. I know you're busy,” not because she didn’t want to hear from you, she did, but because she never wanted to impose on anyone. She never wanted to be an imposition. She was selfless in that way and many other ways, always putting others in front of herself.

She never said no to an invitation, whether that was dinner, sports outing, gallery opening, or even a crowded, chaotic 2012 election night at McCormick Place, she was there. She attended every event that she possibly could and in the rare instance there was a conflicting event she was genuinely disappointed she couldn’t be in two places at the same time. She never wanted any of her kids or grandkids to feel let down. When her oldest child’s husband died at a young age, she instantly stepped in and devoted herself, helping her raise her two kids and be there for them.

In addition to winning mother and grandmother of the year, every year, she was also very enterprising. She had a beauty shop in the basement of her home where she loved to cut hair and socialize. She loved having her friends come and it was her way of having goals and a purpose as her children got older. She was also famous for her homemade luggage tags. She was always asking people, “Have I made you a luggage tag?” and if they answered “Yes”, she would ask to make one for their husband/wife, children, or grandchildren. If she had already done that, you can be sure she would ask, “What about a scissor holder or a pen holder?” She had cornered the market in yarn-based accessories. When her children suggested she should try and sell them she responded, “oh no, I only do this out of love and thanks for people that I know and people I am grateful to have met.” She belonged to a group of women that would gather in each other’s home and make tortellini. They would spend hours and hours at night making tortellini until they had used every last piece of dough.

Lucy was very religious and very proud of her Italian Heritage and became a member of the Bocce Club in Highwood, IL and also was a member of the Highwood Historical Society as well as the Sacred Heart Guild at St. James Church. She was so proud of her father, Silvio Pasquesi, for coming to this country and eventually bringing his wife over to live permanently. She made many trips over the years to Italy with her family to see her relatives in Ferrara and Sant’Anna. Earlier in her life, her husband, Carl, surprised her with a condo in Boca Raton, Florida as an anniversary gift. They enjoyed winters in Florida and later after Carl had passed, she and her sister Carole would go down every Winter where they became fixtures in the community. Her joyful nature and friendly personality endeared her to everyone. If Lucy wasn’t at a dinner party or card game, she was missed and people would be asking where she was..

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