North Shore Death Notices: Nov. 1 To Nov. 7

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

Arlene June Weith, 80, Deerfield
Service Nov. 20

Elizabeth Loeb Nathan, 94, Winnetka
Service Dec. 11

Jo Pullen Lantz, 97, Winnetka
Service Nov. 20

John Perry McCrae, 87, Lincolnshire

Tracy Joseph Carroll, 56, Seattle

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Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood and 11 West Belvidere Road in Grayslake

Helen Marie Robb née Gentile, 78, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Service Nov. 14

Pedro Reyes Ibarra, 64, North Chicago

Marcus Rafael Reyes Gonzalez, 11 months, Chicago

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Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Pamela Gail Yates, 63, Lake Forest
Service Nov. 13

John "Jack" Schnobrich, 92, Lake Bluff

Jason Gregory Raynor, 42, Highwood

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Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie and 195 N. Buffalo Grove Road in Buffalo Grove

Richard Samuels, 92, Chicago
Service Nov. 10

Diane Wolf née Rubin, 90, Flossmoor
Service Nov. 10

Alice Goodman née Lemko, 97, Skokie
Service Nov. 11

Sharon Avny née Shepardson, 73, Mount Prospect
Service Nov. 11

Edith Klein née Pais, 99, Skokie

Gertrude "Gita" Berzon Gerstein, 93, Lincolnwood

Melvin Potash, 92, Glenview

Yenta Tokman, 91, Wheeling

Sima Messerman, 89, Buffalo Grove

Meir Shapiro, 89, Chicago

Blanche Rose Greenberg née Shidler, 88, Denver

Louise Stein née Simkin, 83, Wheeling

Linda S. Rothstein née Smith, 82, Chicago

Alan E. Fishman, 81, Lincolnwood

Francine Eisen, 76, Northbrook

Barbara Shifrin née Brown , 74, Highland Park

Kenneth Mark Lubowich, 71, Skokie

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Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Janice Ruth Murphey, 95, Evanston
Service Nov. 12

Janet L. Heller née Grinuck, 89, Northbrook
Service Nov. 13

Olga Marinic née Dormihalj, 86, Glenview
Service Nov. 13

James T. Harrington Jr., 54, Winnetka
Service Nov. 13

Jane A. Neuhaus née Rosinski, 95, Skokie
Visitation Nov. 18, service Nov. 19

Bryan Eric Allen, 55, Chicago

Melvyn Schwartz, 81, Wilmette

Terrence M. Walsh, 79, Evanston

Edward Joseph "Duke" Dellin, 81, Glencoe
Service Nov. 4

Carll Vrooman, 86, Evanston

Barbara Ford née Moore, 83, Evanston

Mary Anne Cappo, 80, Evanston

Thomas A. Volini, 75, Oak Brook

Mark Michael Anderson, 70, Glenview

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Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Claudette L. Roberts née Patheal, 79, Skokie
Visitation Nov. 10, service Nov. 11

Eva Schejbal née Saidlova, 90, Skokie

Kenneth Byron Hatfield, 87, Chicago

Edward P. Mikos, 86, Skokie

Carolynn Wendt née Kotowski, 76, Chicago

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Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Rita Mae Schey née Wasco, 87, Skokie
Service Nov. 10

John B. Slater, 100, Morton Grove

Dorothy Voss, 86, Elmhurst

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

Iñaki Bascaran, 23, Chicago
Service Nov. 10

Sarkis “Sam” Karnouzian, 84, Glenview
Service Nov. 12

Norma Jean Schwall, 95, of Mount Prospect
Service Nov. 13

Edward D. Giberson, 85, of Niles
Service Nov. 13

Marilyn J. Poor née Carlson, 90, Northbrook

Viola G. Cox née Karsten, 92, Glenview

John Karasi, 89, Forest Park

Virginia Frances Edwards née Gondek, 77, Glenview

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

Abram Dukarevich, 92, Skokie
Service Nov. 10

Sonia Spinka née Comiss, 107, Olathe, Kansas
Service Nov. 12

Agnes "Aggie" Grabow née Itkin, 100, Skokie

Walter Shulruff, 99, Wilmette

Bernice Ellison née Nevers, 93, Pembroke Pines, Florida

Calvin Kanter, 90, Winnetka

Nan Goodman Feiber, 89, Chicago

Larry Goodman, 83, Buffalo Grove

Diane F. Ianiro, 76, Glenview

Judith A. Young, 74, Waukegan

Steven Harris, 72, Wilmette

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Featured Obituary:

Sonia Spinka nee Comiss, 107, of Olathe, Kansas passed away on November 8, 2021. She was the wife of the late William Spinka; mother to Allen (Susan) Spinka, the late Sheldon (Bonnie) Spinka and the late Tina Spinka; grandmother of Jay (Mahjal) Spinka, Jennifer (Glenn) Howard, the late Jason Spinka, Roger (Theresa) Martin, Rachel Anne, Michael (Colleen) Spinka, and Stevi Spinka; great grandmother to Jude, Luke, Tyler, Ashley, Alex, Andrew, Lila as well as was to her furry grandchildren Sammy, the late Bailey and the late Bella; beloved aunt, great aunt, great great aunt and cousin to many. Sonia was preceded in death by her parents Samuel and Ida Comiss nee Yakimovsky as well as her siblings Ruth (Louis Bordon and Jack) Altman, Tema (Joseph Hershberg and Louis) Dunoff, Morris (Mary) Comiss, Gertrude (Morris) Klein, and Mickey (Seymour) Leavitt.

Sonia was born on the October 18, 1914 in Slonim, Poland. She was the fourth child of Samuel and Ida. Times were not easy for the family between the wars fought on the borders and the money troubles many of the Eastern European Jews faced. Thus when she was 6 years old, Sonia went to live with her wealthier and childless Aunt Reizel and Uncle Szmuel Ostrynski and her father immigrated to America to find a better life for the family.

While with her aunt and uncle Sonia was treated as their daughter, living in a luxurious brick home with multiple gardens, receiving the best education possible and often surprised with little gifts from her uncle when he returned from business trips. Sonia stayed with her aunt and uncle until she was 15 and her father had saved enough money to bring the family to Chicago. The family left Slonim just in time to escape the Nazis, sadly Reizel and Szmuel did not.

The family arrived in America not speaking English and so, though a teenager, Sonia was placed in Kindergarten. Through hard work and determination she was able to learn the language and move up to the 8th grade in a year before taking night school to finish high school. Sadly, not long after the family came to America, Sonia’s father passed away from cancer. With some elbow grease and that ingrained determination, in order to make money for the family, Sonia opened a luncheon restaurant with her mother on the corner Division and Damen in Chicago. It is there that Sonia met her husband William. He was one of the restaurant's first customers, and Sonia would say there was electricity when she first shook William’s hand. William and Sonia married in August of 1940 in his parent’s bungalow where they lived for the first few years of their marriage, which lasted 50 years until William’s passing.

Sonia had passion for travel and spent time traveling Europe, Israel and a number of the United States. With her siblings, nieces and nephews spread throughout the country Sonia visited as much as she could. Never driving herself, Sonia was very fond of taking the bus, and would often take cross country road trips to see family alone in her 90s and 100s. She celebrated decades of birthdays and new years participating in an annual tradition with her granddaughter Rachel and family that consisted of dinner and the casino for some Wheel of Fortune.

Life did not always deal Sonia an easy hand, but she had an eternal optimism about her and an infectious joy that would leave even strangers smiling. Once again she is reunited with her family telling jokes, playing cards, and stealing a bowl of ice cream covered with some Baileys.

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