North Shore Death Notices: July 8 To July 14

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

Norma Wiley, 93, Deerfield
Service July 20

Florence Newton Norwesh, 83, Lincolnshire
Service July 27

Jane Ann Royal, 98, Lombard

James A. Leslie, 81, Highwood

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

James "Jim" Colton Benton, 88, Lake Bluff
Visitation and service July 20

John Robert Coath, 94, Lake Forest

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Howard Kaplan, 80, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Service July 15

Steve Zaransky, 68, Chicago
Service July 16

Herbert Sohn, 92, Glenview
Service July 28

Elliot Golub, 85, Winnetka
Services pending

Toby Darvin née Nussbaum, 95, Flossmoor

Harriet Koehler née Blustein, 90, Chicago

David G. Bloomberg, 82, Arlington Heights

Barbara L. Sabes, 75, Buffalo Grove

Edward Sachs, 69, Evanston

Liv Rose Meisterman, 3 months, Chicago

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

Roy Teifeld, 95, Chicago
Service July 15

Iris Brenner, 90, Buffalo Grove
Service July 15

Martin Jaffe, 94, Boca Raton, Florida

Doris Kaiser née Scharfstein, 95, Glencoe

Helen Regina Hill née Schwed, 86, Westmont

Irving H. Tracer, 86, Chicago

Wayne Selz, 77, Skokie

James S. Mills, 82, Lake Forest

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Helen K. Phelan née Kavanaugh, 101, Evanston
Visitation and service July 20

Frank S. Kwong, 76, Morton Grove
Visitation and service July 20

Thomas J. Wysockey, 88, Northbrook

Patsy McCurdy née Patterson, 86, Winnetka

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Robert F. Welch, 92, Skokie
Service July 15

Stephen J. Barroso, 69, Mount Prospect

Jason A. Liss, 60, Chicago

Thompson Funeral & Cremation Services 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Donald Stubbs, 62, Chicago
Services July 19

Geraldine Love, 94, Evanston

Allan Howe, 77, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Norman F. Croft, 68, Wilmette

Featured obituary:

Jim Benton, born November 10, 1930 died July 11, 2019. Education: B.S. in Ed and M. S. +45. Education: Northern Illinois University, University of Iowa, University of Oregon, Oregon State University. University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Benton was born in Chicago and lived the first three years of his life in the city and the next seven in Glencoe. His family moved to Woodstock when he was ten years old. There he attended Woodstock High School and graduated in 1948. Mr. Benton has been very active in his high school’s alumni affairs having served as the reunion chairman for the 45th, 50th, 55th, and 60th reunions. He enlisted in the United States Navy in November of 1950 and was assigned to the amphibious forces in Little Creek Virginia. He was discharged as a Radioman 2nd Class in August of 1954. He and his wife Betty have lived in Lake Bluff since their marriage in August 15, 1964.

As a teacher at Lake Forest High School for 37 years, Jim taught every science course offered (except physics). He also contributed to the curriculum by introducing Earth Science, Zoology, Botany, Biology II and Advanced Placement Biology. He served as science chairman for 22 years including the revolution in science education that occurred in the mid-60s. He taught every “level” of science from remedial to A/P, at both East and West campus during his career. He was primarily responsible for ushering LFHS into the (MacIntosh) computer applications age (mid-80s) as director of the Computer Assisted Instruction Center for ten years. He also directed the Community Education (Adult Education) program during his last year of service to the district instigating a K-Adult computer education sequence.

His many extra-curricular contributions include: Homecoming Director for 20 years, Senior Class Advisor (classes of ’91, 92, and 93), editor and publisher of the association newsletter The LFEA Shuttle (for 20 years), supplier of countless photographs for school publications as well as the athletic wall of fame and performing arts/fine arts walls of fame, wrote a full length novel (Chalkdust in the Trenches) about a typical suburban high school, maintains contact with over 100 LFHS faculty/staff alumni with a periodic newsletter called Take-a-Break, has guest lectured on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, managed the bookstore for four years, advised the Pep Club, the Science Club, the Chess Club, and the Photo club for varying numbers of years, built a fully detailed and lighted model of the newly remodeled LFHS which is on permanent display in the library, co-chaired (along with the APT) the dimensions programs for 5 years, served as chief negotiator for the LFEA for two consecutive years, was faculty president of Cum Laude during his last year, redecorated the Public room into a nostalgia/historical center and received the “Most Groovy Teacher” award for 1963.

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