North Shore Death Notices: July 28 To Aug. 3

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

John W. Petras, 84, Lincolnshire
Service Aug. 8

Opelio Paul Di Vecchio, 88, Highland Park

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood

Theresa Chueh Chen, 75, Northbrook

Reuland & Turnbough Funeral Home, 1407 North Western Avenue in Lake Forest

Lionel "Bill" Ganshirt, 88, Lake Forest

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

Sheldon B. "Shel" Mazor, 92, Lincolnwood
Service Aug. 4

Ruth Marcus née Mikell, 88, Lincolnwood
Service Aug. 4

Sherman C. Levie, 91, Glencoe

Rhona Zagon née Shulman, 84, Lake Zurich

Elaine Kupfer née Marcus, 79, Glenview

Charles Sanford Goldschen, 76, Gurnee

Richard Mark Caplan, 73, Chicago

Sheila A. Medow née Dubin, 70, Lake Forest

Jack Lebovitz, 72, Chicago

Sharon Joy Brown, 71, Los Angeles

Kent Evren Seyhun, 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Enid "Cissie" Ionie Long née Samuels, 90, Northfield

Angeline "Angie" Liapes, 88, Wheeling

Marie Josellis née Hoffmann, 79, Wilmette

Julie Parks née O’Donovan, 70, Niles

Michelet Boursiquot, 67, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Don Christopher Martin, 55, Skokie
Service Aug. 4

Irene Mary Rudzinski née Stachiw, 90, Skokie

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

Evelyn Cotton, 98, Chicago

Jerome "Jerry" Don, 95, Highland Park

Melvin Shore, 87, Chicago

Dena Ann Katz, 85, Skokie

Florence S. Kind, 84, Vernon Hills

Madeline Rosenberg, 82, Chicago

Scott Allen Avers, 60, Skokie

Geoffrey Michael Marcus, 36, Skokie

Thompson Funeral & Cremation Services, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Margaret Walker, Skokie
Visitation Aug. 6, service Aug. 7

Charlie B. Sullivan, 82, Northbrook

Madeline Joyce Warlick née Herrin, 78, Waukegan

Curtis Powell, 50, Skokie

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Elizabeth Sandowski née Linde, 79, Chicago
Services Aug. 22

Bernard E. Brady, 84, Morton Grove

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

George "Mike" Carver, 93, Northbrook

Alta Ann Bowman Thiel, 93, Northbrook

Lynne Ziegler Van Schaack, 86, Northbrook

Maxine Difino, 80, Park Ridge

Eileen Ann Hoekstra née Hicks, 53, Glenview

Featured Obituary:

Marie Josellis (nee Hoffmann) passed away on July 26, 2020. She was deeply loved by her husband, Manfred Josellis, her sons, Friedrich (Donna), Robert (Colleen) and Ernie (Elizabeth) and her seven grandchildren, Jordan, Jack, Patrick, Connor, Katherine, Elisabeth and Eric Josellis. She was the daughter of beloved parents, Joseph and Katherine Hoffman and sister to the late, Elizabeth Pfann and Katherine Hugel. She is also survived by her brothers-in-law, Horst (Anna) Josellis and Henry Hugel. She was a loving aunt to many nieces and nephews.

Marie’s remarkable life, defined by love and resilience, began on June 17, 1941 in Cernje, Yugoslavia where she was born to her loving mother, an American and her father. In 1945, at the end of WW2 when Marie was just three years old, her family was ripped apart and sent into separate concentration camps. Marie was alone with only her sister Katherine, who was just two years older. In 1948, their plight was brought to the attention of North Dakota U.S. Senator William Langer, who fought to bring them home. Eventually, his efforts were successful and the family returned to Chicago, complete with a photo of the senator and Marie and her family in the Chicago newspapers.

Marie met her husband, Manfred, at a German dance in Chicago. They soon married and had two sons, Freddy and Robert in quick succession, followed by Ernie six years later. She experienced many physical and mental effects from her time in the concentration camps, yet Marie remained a loving wife and mother. She loved to celebrate every holiday, especially Christmas. She loved to get dressed up for dances and spend time at their cherished cottage in Wisconsin, swimming and sledding with her boys.

As their children got older, Marie and Manfred took advantage of Marie’s remarkable cooking skills and purchased the aptly, already named, “Marie’s Restaurant” in Wilmette. It was there that Marie became everyone’s mother with her famous German dishes and her generous helpings. It was a family affair as all of her sons worked at the restaurant at one time or another and Marie held many crying babies and entertained many children so their parents could enjoy their meal.

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