North Shore Death Notices: Jan. 21 to Jan. 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

Timothy H. Dacy, 6, Lake Forest
Visitation and service Feb. 1

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Ralph L. Johnson, 88 Lake Forest
Service Jan. 28

Barbara Lennox Wyatt, 81, Lake Forest
Service Feb. 2

James Frederick Scull, 86, Lake Forest

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

Thomas Henry Ritter, 74, Lake Forest
Visitation Feb. 1, service Feb. 2

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Gerald "Jerry" David Schwartz, 73, Highland Park
Service Jan. 31

Shirley Margolis, 92, Skokie
Service Jan. 28

Marvin Eli Jacobs, 95, Northbrook
Service Jan. 29

Lawrence Stein, 82, Huntley
Service Jan. 29

Sonia Greenberg, 90, Wilmette

Fay Schwartz, 84, Northbrook

Betsy Cohen Kast, 80, Chicago

Michael J. "Mickey" Shaffer, 77, Deerfield

Howard L. Graff, 77, Skokie

Sandi Esterman, 76, Lincolnwood

Lois A. Kemp née Finkle, Skokie

Mae Bell, West Bloomfield, Michigan

Mark P. Zuckerman, Buffalo Grove

Karen L. Hankin, Glenview

Lisa Cohen, Evanston

Florence Calonder

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

Rona Zarovsky, 94

Jules Herman Sitrick, 93

Seymour Fishkin, 93,

Sidney H. Friedman, 93

Hilda Platt, 93

Miriam Erlebacher, 92

Walter Roth, 98

Esther Nessim, 89

Richard C. Bieles, 88

Barbara Solodky Glick, 81,

Marianne King, 73

Lowell James Yoselowitz, 70

Richard H. "Rick" Blum, 56

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

William J. Sigle, 83, Morton Grove
Service Jan. 28

Louise C. Delano, 89, Morton Grove

Ely C. Duco, 88, Skokie

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Daniel J. Cahill, Northbrook
Visitation and service Feb. 1

Susan Schultz née Hasselberg, 70, Evanston
Visitation and service Feb. 8

Carl W. Foerstner, 81, Wilmette
Visitation and service Feb. 16

Edith M. Seng née Kohl, 97, Northbrook
Service May 10

Kathryn Crumley Horning, 64, Wilmette

Courtney Sue Craig-Pauly, 47, Wilmette

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Matthew L. DiMaria, 100, Redlands, California
Visitation and service Jan. 28

John H. “Jack” Puetz, 88, Skokie
Service Jan. 28

Harry G. "Mick" Ewing, 98, Skokie

Charlotte R. Hansen, 87, Skokie

Kurt R. Trettin, 63, Skokie

Anthony R. Del Barrio, 30, Chicago

Featured obituary:

Zorita "Zoe" Mikva has died last week at home at the age of 90. Zoe was an educator and an activist well-known in both Chicago and Washington, D.C. where her husband, Abner, served as a Congressman and Appellate Court Judge.

Zoe was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928. She received both her PhB and MA from the University of Chicago. Zoe Mikva’s career in public service began with the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union. She then lobbied for the Friends Committee on National Legislation and worked on two election campaigns with the CIO Political Action Committee. When her daughters Mary, Laurie, and Rachel were youngsters, Zoe taught primary school in Washington, D.C. and in Evanston. Long before the advent of computers, she brought old typewriters into her classroom to encourage her primary students to write stories.

Zoe later evaluated state highway safety programs and developed educational materials as a special assistant to the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In the early and mid-1980’s, Zoe co-owned and managed The Hill Company, which provided support services for people and organizations who were visiting Washington and wanted to affect public policy. For the next seven years, Zoe was Director of Development of The Advocacy Institute, a Washington organization that counseled public interest and grassroots lobbying groups. After returning to Chicago, she was Director of Special Projects in Education for Business and Professional People for the Public Interest.

Zoe’s energetic involvement in volunteer activities spanned four decades. It included PTA Leadership positions, the initiation of Chicago schools’ Operation Headstart, the Board of Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, the Board of the Illinois ACLU and the Board of Micah House, a shelter for previously homeless and addicted women. She was an elected representative of the District Education Council of the National Education Association and her local school board. She also tutored for the Washington Literacy Council and was involved in many federal, state, and local political campaigns. Given Zoe and Ab’s lifetime commitment to public service, former political colleagues and staffers wanted to honor their legacy by establishing the Mikva Challenge. Zoe’s vision shaped its mission to empower students, teachers and schools to be active participants in the political process.

Ab and Zoe received the 2005 Public Humanities Award from the Illinois Humanities Council. Zoe was married to Abner Mikva on Sept. 19, 1948. Zoe is survived by her three daughters and their spouses – Mary (Steve), Laurie (James), and Rachel (Mark), and seven grandchildren, Rebecca Cohen, Jordan Cohen, Sarah Pfander, Samantha Pfander, Benjamin Pfander, Jacob Mikva, and Keren Mikva.

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