North Shore Death Notices: March 24 To March 30

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

Alexander William Scornavacco, 77, Highwood

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood

Ginetta Mosconi, 82, Green Oaks

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

Richard W. "Dick" Hurckes, 86, Lake Forest

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Majer Galster, 98, Chicago

Irwin D. Nelson, 96, Arlington Heights

Jack Goldberg, 93, Wilmette

Howard Norman Gilbert, 91, Wilmette

Ina S. Elkins née Sampson, 90, Northbrook

Gloria S. Kamish née Sherman, 88, Skokie

Waltarud "Ruth" Brostoff, 81, Skokie

Barbara Lippman née Stern, 80, Elgin

Linda Gene Goldstein, 79, Skokie

Murray P. Unger, 72, Chicago

Richard Charles Beiles, 52, Chicago

Samuel Isaac Wiener, 24, Evanston

Mason Saul Slan, 21, Glenview

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Margaret Johnston Crump, 93, Glenview

Lucia Atkinson Fleming, 88, Wilmette

Marie Christine Harmer, 88, Glenview

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Eileen Golden, 63, Chicago

David Richard Scott, 62, Chicago

Evanston Funeral & Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Joyce Mae Maslin, 83, Chicago

Andrew Pettigrew, 74, Lake Bluff

Lisa Michelle Gammons, 50, Oak Lawn

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Livia "Lee" Cooper, 95, Morton Grove

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

L. Stuart Gordon, 93, Glenview

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

Barbara Greenwald, 96, Chicago

Marion Mayer, 96, Northbrook

Judith Robbins née Reimer, 86, Evanston

Harriet S. Orzoff, 84, Wheeling

James K. Yeung, 76, Lincolnwood

Featured Obituary:

L. Stuart Gordon, Jr., age ninety-three, died peacefully after a short illness on March 22, 2020. Born on February 25, 1927, he lived a long and fruitful life. His parents were Leslie S. Gordon and Josephine Bay Duback, long residents of Chicago and Winnetka, Illinois. His grandparents were George W. Duback and Ida B. Duback of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Weston-Ritchie of Chicago and Winnetka. Stuart attended Northshore Country Day School and had fond memories of the music department.

As a young man of sixteen, Stuart enlisted in the Navy during World War II. He was training as a Navy fighter pilot when he contracted spinal meningitis. When he recovered, they transferred him to the Navy band. Because of his drumming skills he played in the Navy band to entertain the troops stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana.

After the war he came back to Chicago and continued his lifelong passion of jazz drumming by being a member of various local quartets such as the Pat Conway Band. He retired from drumming at the age of seventy. Besides his love and knowledge of jazz he attended the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Ravinia for classical concerts.

Stuart was married to Joan Alden Bennett and they lived sixty-eight years in Glenview, IL. They were married on September 18, 1948 and they met as teenagers at his parent’s summer home at the Wausaukee Club in Athelstane, Wisconsin. James Ewing Bennett also had a home at Wausaukee where Joan and her twin sister Janet went each summer. They were married for seventy-years before Joan’s death in 2019.

Besides his love for music, he was a proficient pistol and trap shooter. He belonged to the Illinois Rifle Association, National Rifle Association, Northbrook Sports Club, and McHenry Sportsman Club. Stuart competed at Camp Perry, Ohio winning many awards and medals for his fine marksmanship. He was the captain of the Illinois State Pistol team for several years.

Stuart was happiest when he was drinking a martini at Hackney’s on Lake in Glenview, playing his drums, listening to jazz/classical music, target shooting, and sharing Joan’s love for Yorkshire Terriers.

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