North Shore Death Notices: Feb. 20 - Feb. 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.

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

Walter “Al” Berggren, 80, Northbrook
Service Feb. 27

Jacqueline Elizabeth Meier née Miller, 96, Wilmette
Visitation and Mass Feb. 28

Frank Upshaw Perry, 48, Winnetka
Visitation March 2, Mass March 3

Irene A. Becker, 91, Glenview

Letitia Wheeler née Ohmer, 88, Winnetka

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Kanaiyalal D. Shah, 94, Niles

Joan P. Seyller née Turck, 90, Morton Grove

George E. Lehner, 88, Lincolnwood

Steven A. Soler, 62, Northfield

Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home, 1787 Deerfield Road in Highland Park

William Burns, 39
Service March 2

Jack B. Blane, 94, Highland Park
Service March 5

Robert J. Medved, 89, Lake Forest

Jeanne G. Salzman, 85, Deerfield

Lars Nilsson, 74, Highland Park

Jonathon Michael Noerper, 33, Wheeling

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

Mikhail Zakuta, 91
Service Feb. 26

Lydia Levin née Goldblatt, 75
Service Feb. 26

Charles M. Kramer, 82
Service Feb. 27

Michael S. Saper, 77, Wilmette
Service Feb. 26

Lea Schwartz née Giladi, 91, Boca Raton

Renana Lavin, 88, Skokie

Barbara A. Nidetz, 86, Skokie

Florence Sterman Schott, 86, Highland Park

Annette Abramson, 86, Skokie

Bruce A. Becker, 77, Glenview

Ira Goodman, 70, Skokie

Natasha Grechanik, 64, Vernon Hills

Carla Y. Willis, 54, Evanston

June Cummins Lewis, Evanston

Louis Pardo, Skokie

Alan L. Hellman

Carla Y. Willis, PhD, wife of Gregg R. Baker, mother of Dalia, Ilana and Shira Baker, daughter of Yolanda Avram Willis, PhD and the late Richard H. Willis, PhD, daughter-in-law of Sorelle Baker and the late Paul L. Baker, MD and sister, sister-in-law, stepsister and caring relative to several, served as longtime principal economist of the American Medical Association.

Willis played a key role in the development of the historic consensus reform proposal by the Health Coverage Coalition.

Carla battled an aggressive stage-four small cell cancer, and used her treatment as a means to increase knowledge of this rare form of cancer.

Willis was lovingly referred to as the "Mayor of Evanston" for her warm, caring, joyful and outgoing nature as well as her love of community.

A scholarship is being set up in her memory to support rigorous social science research to understand the root causes of gun violence. Scholarship details to follow within the coming year. Services were held.

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