North Shore Death Notices: July 19 To July 25

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.

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Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Katherine Anne Chiovatero, 63, Lake Bluff

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

Robert V. Congelosi, 75, Round Lake Heights

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

Julius E. Golembo, 106, Deerfield
Service July 27

Eleanor L. Schwarz née Lowenson, 102, Chicago
Service July 28

Arthur O. Silver, 94, Chicago
Service July 28

Franklin E. Gerber, 82, Evanston
Service July 28

Bruce Rosenberg, 69, Schaumburg
Service July 28

Howard J. Adolph, 95, Chicago

Dorothy V. Davis née Sher, 94, Morton Grove

Frida Neuman, 93, Chicago

Jack Hirsch, 90, Northbrook

Michael M. Weinger, 83, Lincolnshire

Marvin I. Medintz, 76, Placida, Florida

Carl Fletcher, 61, Cicero

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Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Michael "Mike" John McGinty, 74 Evanston
Service July 27

Gail E. Panger, 65, Glenview
Visitation July 27, service July 28

Michael J. Mooney, 61, Chicago
Service July 29

Loretta “Jo” Brazaitis Ebert, 90, Wilmette

Catherine Smith née Rueber, 85, Glenview

Barbara S. Ruber, 64, Morton Grove

Josephine Lynette DeWitt, 52, Boston

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Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Zafar U. Khan, 78, Skokie
Service July 27

Jerome T. “Jerry” Kellogg, 58, Des Plaines
Service July 28

Charles R. Jureschi, 86, Mt. Prospect

Diane M. Kraus née Gockenbach, 74, Franklin Park

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

Daphne M. Dayes, 92, Chicago
Visitation July 30, service July 31

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

Jack A. Lofstrom, 84, Glenview
Service July 31

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Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Richard H. Schaul, 97, Park Ridge
Visitation July 28, service July 29

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

Maria Usatyuk, 79, Indialantic, Florida
Service July 30

Steven H. Goldman, 73, Glenview

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Featured Obituary:

Michael “Mike” McGinty passed away peacefully on July 21, 2021, surrounded by his family in the place he called home for nearly 50 years.

Having fought and defeated numerous bouts of cancer over the years, diabetes since early adulthood, lifelong left-handedness, red hair, and a mind that could not help but think of “punny” jokes at the worst times, God finally called him home knowing Heaven will be a much livelier and more enjoyable place with him there.

Mike was born in Rogers Park, the only child of Arthur and Mary. He grew up in a typical Chicago, Irish-Catholic, 1950’s sort of way. He attended Catholic school and ran around the Northside of the City causing trouble (not the kind of trouble you hear about these days. He once set off a cherry bomb in a garbage can and “watched the lid fly 50 feet in the air”).

He graduated from Lewis University -- the first in his family to graduate from college. As an adult, he ventured out on his own all the way to Evanston. Thankfully, he met a young nursing student from Northbrook that had the professional skills and, more importantly, the patience to compete with his doting Irish mother. They were married, had four children, and shared the many ups and downs of life for more than ½ century.

As a professional, Mike started his career at “the Old City News Bureau of Chicago.” It is literally the kind of place they make movies about now – reporters smoking cigars, talking with police and politicians to get a scoop, and going into areas most people shy away from. He cut his teeth, as they say in the journalism business, listening to the police scanner and working nights to cover the crime beat in the City. When his family grew, he took a more practical job as an association communications editor, and later executive in the suburbs, knowing it would allow him more time to spend with the ones he loved most. His early training was not in vain and never disappeared. He passed on the hard-nosed reporting psyche. Spelling counts. Can this sentence be shorter? Who? What? When? Where? You can see it in the hundreds of grade school, high school, and even university writing projects that his children and grandchildren now complete. (Please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors in this obituary. In this case, the student never became the master.)

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