North Shore Death Notices: July 3 - July 9

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.

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Patricia "Pip" Stahlschmidt née Mullen, 75, Lake Forest
Service July 9

Blanche M. Coutts, 97, Lake Bluff

Ann Healy née Kittedge, 87, Lake Forest

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

Cynthia “Cindi” Elkins, 59, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Martha Zajecka née Skach, 88, LaGrange
Visitation July 9, Mass July 10

Linda Migely née Smith, 68, Milwaukee
Visitation and Mass July 12

Beatrice Gedigian Green, 95, Glenview

Nicholas George Biro, 88, Glenview

David J. VanDam, 63, Glenview

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Rd. in Skokie

Betty M. Vaughn née Rauscher, 98, Skokie

Anthony A. Fioretto, 85, Chicago

Fredric L. Maier, 78, Skokie

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

Sylvia Slabodkin, 104
Service July 9

Gertrude Metzger, 98
Service July 9

Liza E. Goldfarb, 95

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Neil Ordman, 80, Bremerton, Washington
Service July 9

Anton Nuger, 50, Mundelein
Service July 9

Marion Levin Stone née Sallo, 97, Chicago

Robert L. Goodman, 95, Chicago

Nancy Gerson née Hopkins, 94, Chicago

Edwin Geisenheimer, 94, Chicago

Arthur B. Simon, 78, Chicago

Featured obituary:

Marion Levin Stone née Sallo, beloved wife of Harold S. Levin and Jerome H. Stone, both deceased, mother of Michael S. Levin (Carla), H. Debra Levin and Ellen Levin, step-mother of James Stone, Ellen Belic and Cynthia Raskin, grandmother of Rachel Albert (Andrew), H Joshua Kotin (Katie Durick), Ari Levin (Lindsay) Jeremy L Kotin (Evan Jacobs) and Jonah Rosenblum, step-grandmother of Margaret Stone (Mal Malme), Emily Gelb (John), Phoebe Nitekman (Michael), John Raskin (Eric Schneider), Julie Raskin, Dara Belic and Maia Belic, great-grandmother of Taliah Albert, Gabriel Albert, Maxwell Kotin, Ryan Levin, Samuel Lawrence Kotin and Naomi Levin.

The family is so appreciative of the loving devotion of a number of caretakers, but Vicky Wagner and Aida Go became family after more than 20 years and 4 years of support respectively.

Born and raised in Chicago Heights at a time when women went to college to find a husband, her family was insistent that she cultivate a career. She received her B.A. in Social Science and her M.A. in Psychiatric Social Work both from the University of Chicago. There she met the love of her life, Harold.

Active in her south suburban community, she founded the community's first nursery school, participated in anti-war movements, held community and political forums in her home and served as the president of the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women and as a director of numerous other cultural and educational boards.

Stone worked as a social worker in the south suburban schools and maintained a private practice. After moving to Chicago in 1972, she spent eight years working at the Michael Reese Psychiatric Institute studying the genetic and environmental effects of schizophrenia in a research study headed by Dr. Roy Grinker.

While serving as Chairman of the Education Department at Palm Springs Desert Museum in California, she developed a volunteer program bringing art instruction to the elementary schools.

After Harold's death, she found a new life with Jerome H. Stone. Dissatisfied with not giving back to the community, she, with Joanne Alter, founded a volunteer tutoring program in the Chicago inner city public schools, Working in the Schools (WITS). But most of all, she was a beautiful lady, inside and out.

Private service and interment on Tuesday. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Working in the Schools, 641 West Lake St., Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60661 or University of Chicago School of Social Work, 5801 South Ellis Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637.

via Chicago Jewish Funerals

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