North Shore Death Notices: Oct. 15 - Oct. 21

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

Kevin D. Carroll, 56, Chicago
Service Nov. 10

David Morton Conley, 76, Northbrook

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

Alison Courtney Buck, 44, Lake Forest

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Mary Ryan Herlocker, 84, Lake Bluff
Visitation and service Oct. 22

Carl Thomas Sommers, 79, Lake Forest

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Leslie Pepi Brickman, 69, Wheeling
Service Oct. 23

Harold Appel, 85, Chicago
Service Oct. 22

Lawrence S. West, 88, Vernon Hills
Service Oct. 29

Mitchell Glenn Link, Unicoi, Tennessee

Lillian Kahn, 101, Chicago

Louis Wolf, 94, Lincolnwood

Marilyn Horberg, 90, Northbrook

Robert I. Shwab Jr., 88, Glenview

Anthony Lucarelli, 84, Vernon Hills

Diane B. Simms, 79, Darien

Joel L. Michaels, 77, Northbrook

Alexa Jaye Winner, 30, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Michael F. Schafer, 76, Glenview
Service Oct. 22

Russell Arthur Larson, 88, Northfield
Visitation and service Oct. 22

John Funston Marquardt, 84, Northfield
Service Oct. 26

Marian C. Cornyn, 97, Winnetka
Visitation Oct. 26 and service Oct. 27

Robert Lee Scurry, 78, Evanston
Visitation Oct. 26 and service Oct. 27

Carol Coolidge Albertson, 77, Evanston
Service Nov. 3

Johannes Weertman, 93, Evanston
Service and reception Nov. 17

Lucille Pierson née O’Connor, 95, Wilmette

Charles Templeton Elliott, 88, Wilmette

Brenden William Kuker, 23, Wilmette

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Karena K. Prinzing, 52, Evanston
Visitation and service Oct. 24

Doris A. Harvey, 95, Morton Grove

Clifford John Seul, 81, Morton Grove

Akhil Pallai, 27, Chicago

Featured obituary:

Johannes Weertman, Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, passed away at age 93 on Oct. 13. He will be remembered as a pioneering researcher, devoted teacher, and esteemed colleague and friend.

During more than four decades of research and scholarship, Weertman made several noteworthy contributions to the study of the mechanical properties of materials, particularly to the fatigue and fracture of metals, the high-temperature creep of crystalline solids, and dislocation theory.

After serving three years in the United States Marine Corps, Weertman attended the College of Science and Engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his bachelor’s and DSc degrees in physics. Following graduation, he worked at the US Naval Research Laboratory, where he applied his interest in geophysics to the study of glacier flow and ice sheets. His research contributions were honored by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee, which established “Weertman Island” in 1960, a 3.5-mile-long island off of the Antarctic coast.

Weertman joined Northwestern in 1959 as an associate professor within the newly formed Department of Materials Science. He taught materials science courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and served as chair of the department from 1964-68.

Weertman’s continued research into dislocations — atomic-scale defects in materials — led to his 1964 textbook, Elementary Dislocation Theory (Reprint, Oxford University Press, 1992), which he co-authored with his late wife, Professor Emerita Julia Randall Weertman. The work stands as the first book written specifically for undergraduate students on dislocation theory, an important factor in the study of fracture mechanics.

“Hans was a quiet man with a powerful intellect whose work had a profound impact on both geology and materials science and engineering,” said Peter Voorhees, Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. “His unfailing good cheer and sharp insights into the mechanical properties of materials will be greatly missed.”

Weertman also held a joint appointment in Northwestern’s geological sciences department, now the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, where he continued his interest in glaciology, studying the migration of subglacial lakes under ice sheets.

Weertman’s career has been marked by several accolades. In 2014, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering established the Johannes and Julia Randall Weertman Graduate Fellowship in honor of the couple’s impactful contributions to materials science and to Northwestern. In 2017, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) renamed its TMS Educator Award to the TMS Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award, celebrating an individual who has made outstanding contributions to education in metallurgical engineering and/or materials science and engineering.

His other honors include membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the National Academy of Engineering. He received the International Glaciological Society’s Seligman Crystal, the Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal, the Champion H. Mathewson Gold Medal, the American Geophysical Union’s Robert E. Horton Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. He was a fellow of the Geological Society of America, ASM International, American Physical Society, American Geophysical Union, TMS, and the American Academy of Mechanics.

Weertman is survived by his daughter Julia (Nicholas Zerebny); son Bruce (Leslie Miller); and grandson Willem. He was preceded in death by wife Julia Weertman, and grandson Johannes Weertman.

Memorial Service: Saturday, Nov. 17 at 10:30 a.m. at Alice Millar Chapel, 1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60201.

Reception: Saturday, Nov. 17 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. at Orrington Hotel, 1710 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL 60201.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to:

Field Museum
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60605

via Donnellan Family Funeral Services

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