North Shore Death Notices Oct. 22 - Oct. 28

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

Robert “Bob” Crimo Sr., 88, Highwood
Visitation and service Nov. 3

Ruth Pomper, 90, Highland Park
Visitation and service Nov. 7

George B. O’Connell, 93, Highland Park

Richard A. Mayer, 92, Deerfield

Pauline M. Noland, 78, Deerfield

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Reno Giangiorgi, 85, Grayslake

Gerard Lingner, 83, Lake Forest

Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, 111 Skokie Boulevard in Wilmette

Jerome Meyer Grunes, 93, Glencoe
Service Oct. 29

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Annabelle Steinberg, 100, Skokie
Service Oct. 29

A. Robert Gilden, 93, Highland Park
Service Oct. 29

Carol Shapiro, 90, Deerfield
Service Oct. 29

Sarra Zeldina, 89, Niles
Service Oct. 29

Bernice Finkelman, 86, Chicago
Service Oct. 29

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

Edith G. Wolfe née Weiner, 86, Wheeling
Service Oct. 29

Phyllis Schramm, 79, Highland Park
Service Oct. 30

Arline Kay Michaels, 77, Arlington Heights
Service Oct. 30

Charles M. Weiss, Glenview

Lillian Seidman, 93, Chicago

Joan Noven, 87, Buffalo Grove

Mitchell "Mitch" Link, 77, Unicoi, Tennesse

Jerold M. Stone, 75, Chicago

Corinne Hanah

Arthur Gold

Annette Zener

Howard Mardell

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Benny Moi, 76
Visitation Nov. 2

Marilyn Cassidy Dixon, 92
Service Nov. 10

Ruth C. Floberg, 99, Evanston

Rose Kueffner Donnell, 97, Winnetka

M. Amin Gillan, 80, Northfield

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Mary Ann L. Even née Ziegele, 89, Skokie
Service Oct. 29

John C. Gross, 82, Skokie
Service Oct. 29

Howard W. Stroker, 84, Des Plaines
Service Nov. 2

Robert “Bob” Martin, 65, Niles
Service Nov. 5

Ignacio C. Cordova, 85

Jesus F. Suarez, 72, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

James Butler, 48, Morton Grove
Visitation Nov. 1, service Nov. 2

Nicu Kantar, 97, Chicago

Featured obituary:

Jerome Meyer Grunes M.D. died on October 25th, 2018 from cancer. A member of the "Greatest Generation," Jerry was born in Brooklyn May 11, 1925. He graduated Thomas Jefferson High School at age 16. His high school yearbook wrote of him, "Is that the Aurora Borealis? No, that Grunes' brilliance shining." He was a Private 1st Class, 488th Light Engineering Battalion, which preceded the front line.

First at the liberation of Dachau, and speaking Yiddish, camp survivors were able to tell Grunes of their experiences. Sharing their stories with someone who empathized with the "incomprehensible" was the moment his life was decided. He knew he would become a psychoanalyst.

On the G.I. Bill, he received his BA from Brooklyn College and went on to receive his MA in Psychology from Columbia University and his M.D. from State University of New York Medical College. He completed his internship at Boston City Hospital and psychiatric residency at Michael Reese Hospital. He received his Psychoanalytic Certificate from the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

He was Director of Residency Training at Chicago State Hospital from 1956-1958 and Director of Psychiatric Services at Drexel Home for the Aged from 1954-1981. With his participation, a documentary was filmed at Drexel Home called "Home for Life" which illustrated challenges faced by aging individuals. He pursued helping those in need, including working as a Psychiatric Consultant at United Charities and the Council for the Jewish Elderly. Academically he was Senior Attending Psychiatrist at Michael Reese Hospital, where he developed their program for the aged; Associate Professor at Northwestern University and Evanston Hospital; faculty member of the Chicago Institute; and Past President of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. He co-founded a PhD program in Gerontology at Northwestern University. His honorary positions include: Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association and Psychoanalytic Association, Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysis, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Gerontological Association.

A pioneer in the field of gerontology and using psychoanalysis in the treatment of older adults, he published numerous books and chapters. He felt strongly that all people should have access to psychoanalytic care. People who work with older adults, he explained, have a strong attachment to older people in their lives, or those who denied their own aging process.

He continued to work until age 92. He never hesitated to stand up for his beliefs and to give a voice to those oppressed. He proudly marched with Reverend Martin Luther King and supported unions and social causes. Family holidays would often be trips to war ravaged countries.

He was a lover of all arts, both contemporary and ancient, and an ardent Savoyard. "Good art," he explained, "should be pretty, but great art should stir something deep inside you and make you dizzy." He was a great lover of literature and poet himself. Botany was another great passion, from planting a Rose of Sharon in the cracks of the sidewalk on Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn, to visiting the great gardens of the world and tending to his own extraordinary garden.

He is survived by his beloved five children, Allen Grunes, Reba Kraus-Georgiadis, Tina Olander, Louis Kraus and Dorothy Grunes, his 11 treasured grandchildren, Marissa, Avi, Natalie, Claire, Suzanna, Noah, Ethan, Natalie, Noah, Madeline and Beatrix. He is also survived by his beloved nieces and nephews Carol Kornsweig, Helen Shor Grunes, Evan Mayerhoff, Helen Mayerhoff, Marc Mayerhoff, Perle Moreau and Neftali Espar, Lisa Maniff and Jeffrey Maniff. He leaves behind his great love, his wife of 50 years, Barbara Joan Grunes, a love which words cannot capture.

"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once."

Funeral services will be held 9:30 a.m., Monday, October 29, 2018, at Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home, 111 Skokie Blvd., Wilmette, IL. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Jerry's the memory to The Chicago Botanical Gardens (847)835-8333 or The Yiddish Book Center (413)256-4900. Funeral Information 847-256-5700

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