North Shore Death Notices: July 5 To July 11

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

Thomas A. Bacci, 70, Highland Park
Service July 16

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Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Eugene M. Cummings, 80, Lake Forest
Service July 13

Dennis “Denny” M. Banner, 78, Lake Bluff
Service July 14

Peggy Ann Adams, 103, Lake Forest
Service July 20

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

Roy Glenn Kyser, 58, Round Lake Beach

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

Irma Tauber née Bobin, 100, Lake Forest
Service July 14

Thelma Faye Grusd, 92, Lincolnwood

Alan Normal Press, 91, Chicago

Norma Brand, 88, Glenview

Leah "Toby" Schwartz, 84, Deerfield

Charles B. Snyder, 84, Lincolnwood

Faigy Bassman, 63, Chicago

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Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Marshal I. McMahon, 86, Glencoe
Service July 15

James Peter Molitor, 90, Evanston
Service July 16

Helen Lucille Moore, 90, Evanston
Service July 16

Lois Elaine Sternquist, 90, Evanston
Service July 16

Vincent Jerome Tomasello, 57, Chicago
Service July 23

Audrey Chamberlain, 97, Evanston,

Alice Metz Ward, 68, Glenview

David Dean Woodfork, 49, Skokie

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Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Phyllis D. Juiris née Drisch, 95, Park Ridge
Service July 13

Sabas G. Martinez, 100, Skokie
Service July 13

Barbara A. Ketter née Baumann, 85, Glenview
Service July 14

John T. “Jack” Johns, 80, Chicago
Visitation July 16, service July 17

Stephen Planet Chiu, 63, Katy, Texas
Service July 17

William Joseph Warak, 100, Evanston
Service July 20

Gerda Gustafson née Larsen, 95, Chicago

Thomas W. Lynn, 91, Skokie

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

Antonio Morris, 47, Chicago

Tyrek Jevon Anderson, 23, Chicago

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Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Zerezghi "Zack" Iyassu, 74, Lincolnwood

Andrea Carroll Weber, 61, Evanston

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

Kathleen Ann Griffis née Dee, 66, Wilmette
Service July 15

Marilyn A. Eichelberg née Howe, 89, Prospect Heights
Service July 30

Robert P. Schroeder, 64, Winnetka

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Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Owen Friewer, 78, Morton Grove
Visitation July 16, service July 17

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

James "Jimmy" Meitus, 78, Northfield
Service July 13

Ida Sondheimer née Nerenberg, 98, Evanston
Service July 18

Asher Birnbaum, 94, Northfield

Rena M. Legator, 88, Skokie

Jane R. Walchirk née Robbins, 86, Evanston

Bella Lukyan née Levitsky, 82, Des Plaines

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Featured Obituary:

John T. “Jack” Johns, Jr., M.D., age 80, passed away, suddenly, at his Chicago home on July 9, 2021.

Jack devoted his career to fight substance abuse in Chicago, caring for thousands of people of all ages over the course of his 55 years of practice. He worked his entire life, from his first paper route for the Lincoln-Belmont Booster, with many jobs during his schooling, and attending to patients up to the day he passed away. A true Chicagoan and Loyola alum, Jack attended the Academy, the University and then the Stritch School of Medicine. After his first trip to Mexico while in college, he studied and became fluent in Spanish, choosing to do his internship at San Juan City Hospital in Puerto Rico. It was in San Juan at the end of his internship where he was sworn into the U.S. Army as a Captain. He served in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Viet Nam. His hundreds of letters home focused as much as was possible on the Vietnamese people and the wonderful culture he found there. Jack was awarded a Bronze Star for his medical service in Saigon during the infamous Tet Offensive in 1968. The growing problem of many young men returning home from Viet Nam with heroin addiction led him to specialize in Addiction Medicine. He was the medical director at various clinics in his many years of practice, and in 2005 opened his own clinic, NEXA, which eventually became part of H.A.S., a behavioral health resource for Chicago’s Latino community. An honor that Jack received in 2011 stated it well: “In recognition of your outstanding commitment to patients and significant contributions to enhancing the quality of medication-assisted addiction treatment in Illinois.” A lesser-known fact about Jack was that his community spirit extended to beach clean-ups!

He loved Lake Michigan and would periodically pick a beach and clear it of trash people thoughtlessly discarded on the lakefront. He also performed this task at beaches in and near Dominical, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, gathering debris from cruise ships that ended up on the shore, for the twenty years he routinely visited on vacation.

Jack loved nature and the outdoors; the cabin in Michigan he owned for many years; Chicago architecture; orchestrating home improvement projects; and monitoring the weather. He was artistic, loved to sing and had a great whistle. At times irascible but always good-hearted, his death is being met with grief from his family and friends, here, in Michigan, and in Costa Rica. We will miss his big smile, quick wit and generosity.

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