North Shore Death Notices: June 3 To June 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.

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

Audrey Baer, 93, Deerfield
Services pending

Raymond S. Tracz, 93, Riverwoods
Services pending

Damian T. Cheong-Leen, 65, Winter Haven, Florida
Services pending

Maria Assunta Balducci Parenti, 83, Highwood

Adriana Perrelli, 72, Highland Park

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood

Laura Nanini, 87, Highwood

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Darrel Lester Harman, 70, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Visitation and service June 15

Alice Schutte Bohlen, 90, Lake Forest
Service Aug. 3

Robert Douglas, 80, Lake Bluff

Reuland & Turnbough Funeral Home, 1407 N. Western Ave. in Lake Forest

Bernice Ione "Bea" Shearron, 91, Lake Forest

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

Rima Shustina, 87, Buffalo Grove
Service June 10

Aleksandra Rozenbaum, 94, Chicago
Service June 11

Eunice Manya Rosen née Berg, 88, Highland Park
Service June 11

Nathaniel Stampfer, 96, Chicago

Ila Esther Sher née Pollock, 95, Glenview

Marvin M. Boiko, 89, Northbrook

Rachel Herman, 87, Oak Park

Elaine P. Mandel, 68, Chicago

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

David Chernyakhovskiy, 93, Chicago
Service June 10

Lea Elmalech, 71, Arlington Heights
Service June 11

Ari Benjamin Davidson, 32, Skokie
Service June 11

Ellen Drebin
Services pending

Raymond Jordan
Services pending

LeRoy Neuberg
Services pending

Herbert Sohn
Services pending

Bella Hasselson, 96, Las Vegas, Nevada

Robert O. Shemrinsky, 94, Glenview

Jerome Shyman, 89, Skokie

Lillian Cohen, 88, Vernon Hills

Stanley Tigerman, 88, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

David Spencer “Dave” Carlson, 89, Evanston
Visitation June 12, service June 13

Tommasina Pacelli, 89, Glenview

Edelmiro Garcia-Calvo, 87, Skokie

Isabella C. Fischer née Smith, 87, Skokie

Patricia Euginia Telles-Irvin, 63, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Carmen Garcia, 94, Skokie
Visitation June 13, service June 14

Frances Schnadig née Rumsey, 77, Evanston
Services pending

James A. Lankford, 89, Skokie

Kermit Craig, 49, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Mary Ellen Grear née Tringali, 92, Morton Grove
Visitation June 13, service June 14

Estelle B. Jankowski née Piotrowski, 98, Melrose Park

Featured Obituary:

Kurt Max Gronau, 82, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, passed away peacefully from cancer at Journey Care Hospice Center in Glenview, the morning of Tuesday, May 28, 2019.

Kurt was born in Northbrook on May 17, 1937 to Kurt K. and Ollie (Schroeder) Gronau. He was the oldest of 3 siblings and attended a one room schoolhouse in Northbrook through 8th grade.

In 1955, he was in the second graduating class at the original Glenbrook High School and is a graduate of Bradley University, after which he served in the Army Reserves.

Kurt had a career in insurance, living and working in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City before returning to the Chicago area in 1977 where he started his own insurance business and has been actively involved in the Lake Bluff/Lake Forest communities.

Kurt was a long time member of the Lions Club, having served as president, a board member for the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce, and a 42 year member of First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest where he served as a Deacon and volunteer through PADS of Lake County.

His love of Lake Bluff and the game of golf lead him to serving 20 years on the Lake Bluff Park District Board of Commissioners as the longest tenured Board member, having held every Board office and committee position.

For the past 18 years, Kurt has stood alongside his wife, Peg, as owners of Peg Ann Kompany, a Lake Bluff treasure, never meeting a stranger as people shopped over the years. They were always awesome partners in work as in life!

Kurt is survived by his loving wife of 36 years, Peg (Coleman), 4 children, and 11 grandchildren: Gretchen (Michael) Wooldridge (Merritt and Calvin) of Morton Grove, Jacki (Timothy) Michael (Harley and Sloan) of Lake Bluff, Rodd (Sarah) Specketer (Sadie, James, Miles, Elizabeth, and Wells) of Lake Bluff, and Melanie (Sean) Walsh (Molly and Jack) of Lake Forest, his two sisters, Carol (Harvey) Applegate of Omaha, Nebraska, and Judy Duszak of Libertyville, and nieces Michelle Blanchard, Kim Bezek, and nephew, Chris Duszak. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Services were held. Memorial contributions may be made to either JourneyCare Foundation or PADS of Lake County.

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