North Shore Death Notices: Feb. 4 to Feb. 10

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

Eleanor V. Kabat née DeTrana, 101, Deerfield
Visitation Feb. 11, service Feb. 12

Ruth Farnham Kapes, 101, Highland Park

James Patrick McCarthy, 89, Highland Park

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood

John “Jay” Joseph Kirby, 80, Lake Bluff

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Echo G. Moulder, 100, Lake Forest

LuVerne Clayton Zobel, 97, Lake Forest

Grace Viqueira Nelson, 92, Lake Forest

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

Lili Sorokin, 91, Lake Forest

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Judith Sher, 82, Chicago
Service May 4

Edward Floyd Silverman, 98, Skokie

Evelyn Shavitz, 97, Skokie

Marvin Eli Jacobs, 95, Northbrook

Daila Shefner, 94, Chicago

Joseph Skom, 93, Winnetka

Lisa Cohen, 90, Evanston

Henry Straus, 90, Chicago

David Gotfried, 88, Boynton Beach, Florida

Serene Nathan, 85, Chicago

Norton Shapiro, 85, Chicago

Linda D. Baskin, 82, Chicago

Lawrence Stein, 82, Huntley

Richard S. Gutof, 78, Northfield

Gerald Schwartz, 73, Highland Park

Arnold D. "Arnie" Miller, 72, Chicago

Anna Kurbanova, Wheeling

Karen L. Hankin, Glenview

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Frank M. Fox, 83, Scottsdale, Arizona
Visitation and service Feb. 15

Shirley S. Given, 96, Northbrook
Service Feb. 16

Wynn Mason Taylor, 91, Evanston
Service in May

Kathleen Gaughan née Naughton, 96, Glenview

Mary Alice Neylan née Coogan, 89, Northfield

Dorothy B. Schmit née Bresnahan, 89, Northfield

Robert M. Herbert, 49, Hawthorne Woods

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Brittany Marie Becker, 27, Morton Grove
Service Feb. 13

Susanne Mansfield née Glotzbach, 87, Chicago
Service Feb. 22

Barbara S. Vidal née Musolf, 85, Chicago

Richard J. Kozlowski, 74, Mt. Prospect

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

Ronnie I. Robbins née Orzoff, 85, Wilmette
Service Feb. 12

Emile Karafiol, 83, Chicago
Service Feb. 16

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Patricia Gardner, 65, Morton Grove

Featured obituary:

Emile Karafiol passed away at University of Chicago Hospital just after midnight on January 16, 2019 from multiple organ failure. He spent several days in the Cardiac ICU where he was visited by former students, legal colleagues, former clients and surrounded by family and friends. Emile was 83.

Emile was born on March 29, 1935 in Warsaw, Poland. He and his family fled persecution of the Jews in Europe and settled in Montreal, Canada. He came to the United States as an undergraduate. After earning an AB at Princeton (1955), he received a Ph.D. in European history from Cornell University (1965). He taught history to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Chicago until 1977. In 1969, he was awarded the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

"Emile's was one of the most original minds and personalities I have encountered. He was wonderfully learned in all kinds of ways quite apart from his field of history, with a range and breadth of interests that could be astonishing and often off the beaten path. I found him also the most loyal of friends and colleagues," said Hanna Holburn Grey, longtime friend and former President of the University of Chicago.

In 1979, he received a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and changed careers. He went to work at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in their corporate law group. As a lawyer he specialized in representing institutional venture capital and private equity investors. He became a nationally-regarded expert in working with the SBA.

Emile was inspired by a visit to his cousin's grave in the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery in 2004, to initiate a project to have every gravestone digitally photographed and indexed, and also to identify GPS coordinates where necessary as part of a master searchable database that would include the names, dates, and details inscribed on each gravestone. There are links to transcriptions and photographs of more than 100,000 gravestones. He was an avid supporter of the arts. Additionally, on the Yiddish Book Center website, please feel free to view where Emile was interviewed about his life.

He is survived by his second wife, Virginia Robinson, his son Paul J. ("PJ") Karafiol and his stepsons William Justin Jacobs and Benjamin Robinson Jacobs, his daughter-in-law, Allison Bradley Clark, his grandchildren, Ari Ian Clark Karafiol, Jonah Clark Karafiol, and Helen Ramona Clark Karafiol, his "adopted" grandson Konrad Ross, his nephews and nieces, Mark and Diane Randolph and Rima and Stephen Maislin of Montreal, and their children and step-children, Andrew, Jill, Ryan, and Sean. He was preceded in death by his first wife and PJ's mother, Dorothy Ramona Thelander, his sister, Lydia Randolph (née Karafiol) and beloved brother-in-law, Gerald Randolph.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 11 a.m. in Bond Chapel on the University of Chicago Campus, 1050 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL, 60637. A reception will follow. No flowers please. The family requests that any memorial contributions be directed to one of the organizations that Emile supported: The Shriver Center for Poverty Law, The New Israel Fund, The Dorothy Thelander Fund University of Illinois (Specify fund 12770431),The Sousa Mendes Foundation, the Yiddish Book Center or Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.

via Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, more information available by calling 847-256-5700

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