North Shore Death Notices: Feb. 18 To Feb. 24

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

Nancy H. Smith, 94, Highland Park
Service March 14

Edward James Collins, 85, Deerfield
Service March 16

Jack B. Thurlwell, 84, Highland Park

Flora Friedman, 91, Northbrook

Betsy E. Schmitt, 84

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood

Nancy Lee McCraren née Splett, 80, Highland Park

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Susan Splansky, 70, Buffalo Grove
Service Feb. 26

Erwin M. Werth, 97, Wilmette
Service Feb. 27

Judith Sher, 82, Chicago
Service April 28

Miriam "Mimi" Neumark, 91, Wilmette
Service Feb. 26

Boris Kacel, 97, Skokie

Bernetta Braun Tennant, 91, Olympia Fields

Phillip Pink, 91, Arlington Heights

Corinne Norman, 89, Arlington Heights

Marlene Gabel, 88, Wilmette

Louise Stein, 88, Flossmoor

Penny Brown, 87, Portage, Michigan

Joyce S. Weber, 87, Northbrook

Howard Horwitz, 76, Mount Prospect

Mark Domanski-Erdman, 67, Glencoe

Kasiel "Kasey" Steinhardt, Lincolnshire

Helene B. Plager, Buffalo Grove

Ellen Abramowitz, Evanston

Andrea Liss

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Todd S. Nelson, 75, Glenview
Visitation Feb. 28, service March 1

Lawrence "Larry" E. Marsh, 86, Safford, Arizona
Visitation and service March 2

Mary Lou DeHaas, 90, Washington, Pennsylvania
Service March 16

Marion “Nan” Stefo née Hannafin, 75, Glenview

Joan Marie Kozicki, 63, Wilmette

Steven Morris Black, 60, Glencoe

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Anthony J. Vazquez, 84, Skokie
Visitation and service Feb. 27

Donna H. Eldridge, 97, Kenilworth
Service March 9

Michael D. Nawrocki, 60, Springfield

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

Leonard David Adler, 93, Highland Park
Service Feb. 27

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

George J. Riha, 90, Morton Grove
Visitation Feb. 27, service Feb. 28

Betty L. Busch, 94, Morton Grove

Ernest A. Connelly, 90, Morton Grove

Priscilla Trippi, 88, Morton Grove

Featured obituary:

Nancy H. Smith passed away on February 17, 2019. Born September 4, 1924, she graduated with a B.A. from the University of Louisville and lived in Highland Park, IL, for over sixty years. There, with her husband Lester H. Smith she raised three children, Edwin E. Smith, husband of Katharine, Weston MA; David Smith, Evanston IL; and Laurel Smith, Highland Park, IL.

While raising her children, she held numerous jobs and ultimately became a successful and well respected accredited farm and land broker, operating as Nancy Smith Real Estate and specializing in brokering farm land in northern Illinois. She developed an international reputation through marketing properties to foreign investors and serving on the board of directors of the International Real Estate Federation. She was instrumental in bringing the annual meeting of the International Real Estate Congress to Chicago in 1994. She was also a leader at the local level, founding the Illinois Chapter of the International Real Estate Federation and serving as president of the Illinois Farm and Land Chapter of the Realtors Land Institute.

Besides her three children. she is survived by grandsons Benjamin Smith, husband of Caitlin Connelly, of Buffalo, NY; George Smith, husband of Katherine Sutula, of Lexington, MA; and great grandchildren Colin, Nell, Eamon, Annie, Conor, and Byron. Her husband Lester predeceased her in 2000, and her grandson Andrew predeceased her in 2011.

Along with her devotion to her family she will always be remembered for her keen intellect, passion for politics, and appreciation of travel, culture, and good food. A memorial service will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday, March 14, 2019, at the Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home, 1787 Deerfield Rd, Highland Park, IL.

via Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home

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