North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 6 To Dec. 12

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

Albert J. LaBunski, 78, Bannockburn
Visitation Dec. 16, service Dec. 17

Stanley Franklin Friedland, 86, Lawndale, North Carolina

Robert Alan Lindsley, 66, McCullom Lake

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

Daniel S. Tanase, 61, Bloomingdale

Froilan Figueroa Coronel, 50, Highland Park

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Roberta Jane Burnett née Smith, 99, Lake Forest

Marcel V. DeWulf, 9o, Lake Bluff

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

Hollis "Hobby" McLaughlin Shank, 93, Lake Forest

Gerald “Jerry” L. Maatman, 91, Lake Forest

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

Pearl Rutzky Begun née Rubin, 101, Northbrook

Lillian Kayton, 97, Skokie

Toby Twersky, 91, Chicago

Lillian Zelikow, 89, Northbrook

Ron A. Sackheim, 80, Highland Park

Martin Hutensky, 79, Skokie

Oliver Brown Leopold, 19, Evanston

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Dennis Terrance Tossi, 73, Skokie
Visitation Dec. 12, service Dec. 13

Elizabeth "Betsy" Ann Moerschel, 54, Kenilworth
Visitation Dec. 13, service Dec. 14

June Pauline Walsh née Liston, 91, Evanston
Service Dec. 15

S. Ann Hartlage Feltes née Stewart, 79, Chicago
Visitation Dec. 15, service Dec. 16

Judith Ann Dages née Murphy, 88, Glenview
Service Dec. 17

Albert Gene Dykas, 79, Glenview
Service Dec. 18

Randy Przybylski, 68, Evanston
Service Dec. 18

Suzanne Mack née Charbonneau, 91, Winnetka

Jane Dold née Hasse, 74, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Dorothy M. Vetter née Jestic, 90, Skokie

Albert R. Sanedrin, 82, Chicago

Toby "TJ" Hlaban, 31, Chicago

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

Arnett Lee Judon, 81, Evanston
Service Dec. 16

Cariya Zabree Reed, 8, Kansas
Service Dec. 17

Christine Huff, 84, Evanston

Alter J. Brown, 83, Skokie

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Margaret Kelly, 94, Evanston

Lawrence McCormick Detmer, 91, Evanston

Janet Lucille Freise, 78, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Hermes D. Miller, 90, Niles
Visitation Dec. 16, service Dec. 17

Richard D. Zavala, 91, Morton Grove

Dora Y. Hedlund, 76, Morton Grove

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

John Lucas, 66, Northbrook
Service Dec. 16

Robert “Bob” E. Bedessem, 101, Northbrook
Service Dec. 17

John David Crawford, 97, Skokie

Kathleen “Kathy” A. Thomas née McKone, 76, Des Plaines

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

Mildred Freud Mendelson née Lurie, 97, Lincolnwood
Service Dec. 15

Gertrude S. Danziger, 102, Winnetka

Lowell Robin, 94, Arlington Heights

Michael Hoit, 83, Winnetka

Ronnie Rosenfeld, 81, New York

Martin "Marty" B. Robins, 65, Barrington

Featured Obituary:

Gertrude Danziger, née Seelig, age 102, passed away peacefully on December 9, 2021 in Chicago due to respiratory failure. Gertrude (Trudy) was born in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois to Clara and Isadore Seelig.

Her father owned a grocery store on the North side of Chicago and her mother was a homemaker. She had one sister, Pat, with whom she was very close. Gertrude attended Roosevelt High School, where she was salutatorian of her class.

She took summer journalism and photography courses at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the 1940's and planned to pursue journalism at Northwestern but instead took a series of jobs, including executive secretary to Hugo Sonnenschein, when dissuaded by friends who convinced her that when the men came back from the War there would not be jobs for female journalists. She was active in Temple Jeremiah (Northfield) and Temple Sholom (Chicago), where she was president of the junior board.

Gertrude met her husband, Sigmund Herman Danziger Jr. (1917-1979) at the shiva for her mother. They were married at Temple Sholom in Chicago in the rabbi's study 10 days after meeting. They moved in 1957 to Winnetka, where she was an active member of the community for over 50 years.

In 1979, after the death of her husband, she became CEO and President of Homak Mfg Co Inc., which her husband had founded. During the subsequent 25 years, she oversaw the growth of Homak into one of the largest sheet metal fabricators in America.

At its peak, it was the primary supplier of roller cabinets and tool boxes for most of the major retailers, including Walmart, Kmart, Lowe's, The Home Depot True Value, Ace Hardware, Montgomery Ward, Coast-to-Coast, Costco, Meijer, Pep Boys, Fingerhut, and NAPA; security and gun vaults for the sporting goods industry, including Bass Pro Shops, Gander Mountain, Dick's Sporting Goods and Sports Authority; and developed a line of crash and hospital carts.

The manufacturing facility grew from 35,000 sq ft to over 400,000 sq ft and employed over 800 people during her tenure. She became known at trade shows as the "Tool Box Lady" and the only female CEO of a major manufacturer in the hardware industry. In spite of her professional success, she remained focused on taking care of her family and the "boys."

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