North Shore Death Notices: March 17 To March 23

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

Violette Lattanzi, 95, Highland Park

Troy Walker, 90, Highland Park

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Frederick "Fred" Buck, 89, Lake Bluff

William P. "Bill" Smith, 68, Lake Forest

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

Ray A. Kulmala, 98, Waukegan

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Erica L. Cohen, Mundelein
Service March 25

Myra Rosenbloom, Evanston
Services pending

Herbert P. Goldblatt, Northbrook
Services pending

Sadell Tobin, 92, Skokie

Bernice L. Cohn née Kolb, 92, Wilmette

Arnold K. Martin, 86, Vernon Hills

Arnold Fabrikant, 75, Buffalo Grove

Stanley P. Jacobs, 63, Franklin Park

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Medea Marie Marella, 92, Northbrook

Kenneth J. Specht, 87, Glenview

Bautista A. "Best" Santos, 84, Skokie

Mary Margaret Ottenheimer Laport, 83, Wilmette

John Adams Bross, 80, Chicago

Dorothy Lynn "Lynnie" Solner, 78, Northbrook

Victoria Rafols-Brown, 69, Chicago

Sarah A. Fend, 67, Chicago

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Eileen M. Gauger, 98, Evanston

Francis J. "Frank" Vanderplas, 91, Skokie

Anna V. Moskal née Price, 85, Skokie

Donald Runkowski, 80, Chicago

Katherine Mitchell Holz, 64, Wilmette

Lucy Julia VanVeldhuizen, 7 months,Chicago

Thompson Funeral & Cremation Services, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Carmen Madourie, 81, Evanston
Visitation March 26

Reginold L. Tate Jr., 27, El Paso, Texas
Visitation March 28

Elizabeth Gunn, 81, Evanston

Mary E. Mackey, 76, Des Plaines

Shantae M. Smith, 26, Chicago

Evanston Funeral & Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Susan Elaine Lamonica, 61, Evanston

Carlo Garcia, 58, Chicago

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

Winifred Pawliger Gailen, 99, Chicago

Betsy Matek, 95, Evanston

Mira Isakova, 94, Milwaukee

Sandor Smehoff, 90, Chicago

Michael A. Cohen, 77, Chicago

Douglas O. Weidman, 73, Glencoe

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

Joseph Roger Tardif, 89, Northbrook

Rosina Argondizzo, 79, Glenview

Featured Obituary:

Mary Margaret Ottenheimer Laport was born on January 31, 1937 in Chicago IL. She was preceded in death by her parents Andrew “Ottie” and Margaret “Marge” O’Dea Ottenheimer, her brother Joseph, and former spouse Charles Laport.

Mary graduated from Saint Scholastica and Marquette University. Mary had a fun group of school friends and maintained many relationships throughout her life as she moved from Chicago and back again.

Mary met and married Charles Laport in the late 1950’s and was a loving mother to Michael, Lisa, Margaret aka Peggy, and Peter. Michael married Ginna and resides in California, Lisa lives in Texas, Margaret lives in Chicago, and Peter married Laura and resides in Maryland. Peter and Laura have 4 children, and Mary was a proud grandmother to Patrick, Andrew, Katie, and Libby.

Mary had a 25-year career working for GTE Directories. She moved to Arlington, Texas in the mid-1980’s when the company relocated the headquarters to Dallas. Mary was divorced, kids were in college, and she always said she wanted to get out of the cold. In her last role at GTE, Mary traveled internationally working with technology groups to develop the yellow pages platform on the Internet.

When Mary retired, she volunteered in the Arlington community. Mary was a member and past officer of the Arlington Women’s Club serving as Treasurer. Mary created Giving Circles that funded many educational scholarships. She worked tirelessly on a project that launched a 2012 book of essays on the early years of Arlington, written by author O.K. Carter. Mary also volunteered with PALS (Partners of the Arlington Life Shelter) to expand community awareness and provide additional financial support to the work of the Arlington Life Shelter supporting homeless families.

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