Obituaries

North Shore Death Notices: July 8 - July 15

Recent obituaries and upcoming services on Chicago's North Shore.

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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Patricia "Pat" Hartung, 94, Lake Forest
Service July 16

Robert W. "Bill" Ogden, 81, Lake Forest
Service July 26

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Ann Fulton Kittredge Healy, 87, Lake Forest
Service Aug. 4

Blanche M. Coutts, 97, Lake Bluff

Robert J. Menoni, 89, Highwood

Richard A. McCaslin, 84, Northbrook

Mary Ellen Vislisel, 83, East Dundee


Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Nancy Jean Campbell, 64, Glenview
Visitation and service July 16

Gerald "Jerry" Carl Harms, 75, Northbrook
Visitation July 18, service July 19

Thomas "Tom" Miles Chambers, 64, Wilmette
Service July 21

Joan Conroy, 88. Evanston
Visitation and service July 28

Phyllis E. March, 87, Evanston

Patricia J. Terando née Watters, 86, Lincolnshire

Hazel Bren, 96, Deerfield
Service July 16

Cary Gershbein, 60, Northfield
Service July 16

Ruth Edith Sajowitz, 98, Northbrook
Service July 17

Saul Mariasis, 89, Hanover Park

Marshall Schaeffer, 86, Delray Beach, Florida

Howard D. Kurland, 84, Highland Park

Jean Laves, 81, Chicago

Sandra J. Kruger, 80, Glenview

Faith Weiser, 80, Vernon Hills

Shelley Y. Kaplan, 67, Chicago


Featured obituary:

After 93 jubilant years of life, Majlis Anderson of Lake Forest passed away on July 5, 2018 surrounded by family. Born in Åland, Finland January 7, 1925, Majlis was raised on her family’s farm of eight cows, two horses, and one pig. She met US Army sergeant Karl Harry Anderson when he returned home to Åland to visit his mother and attended a dance at which Majlis played the accordion.

Harry and Majlis married, then immigrated to New York City. She learned English by reading the newspaper and watching Westerns. Majlis ran their two-bedroom home, which included her husband, daughter Diane, two brothers, and a brother-in-law. She lived a dual-national life with family and friends both in the US and Finland, playing cards, dancing, and drinking coffee. They retired to Boynton Beach, Florida and, after Harry’s death, Majlis stayed there another five years. In 2006, Hurricane Wilma encouraged Majlis to move in with Diane and her family in Lake Forest.

Majlis was the original “just-do-it” woman of three generations, a constant model of style, a warm heart with hugs at-the-ready for all, and a world traveler to the very end: she climbed all 284 steps of the Arc de Triomphe three months ago.

She is survived by her daughter Diane (Douglas) Nieman of Lake Forest and grandchildren Carrie Nieman (David Emerson) and Andrew Nieman.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made in her memory to either: Access HEARS, 4102 Underwood Road, Baltimore, MD 21218, or Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Senior Citizens Foundation, 100 Old Mill Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045.

via Reuland & Turnbough

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