North Shore Death Notices: Sept. 23 To Sep. 29

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

Franco Lenzini, 61, Vernon Hills
Visitation Sept. 30, service Oct. 1

Stanley M. Freehling, 95, Highland Park
Service Oct. 11

Marilyn Joan Sanner, 83, Deerfield

Fallon Edwin Fischer, 80, Morton Grove

Fred H. Lehman, 75, Lincolnshire

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood

Peter George Kallas, 86, Highland Park
Service Oct. 2

Carol Jean Herrera née Marozas, 69, Northbrook

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

John T. Haran, 76, Lake Forest
Service Oct. 5

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

Carol Ann Minor née Powell, 76, Lake Bluff

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Mikhail Vayserman, 96, Wheeling
Service Oct. 2

Lois F. Pinkus née Ferdinand, 93, Boca Racon, Florida
Service Oct. 2

Sheila F. Cyrluk, 80, Lake Worth, Florida
Service Oct. 6

Julia Kerner, 82, Northbrook
Services pending

Sara Weinschneider, 86, Chicago

David Lowis, 81, Vernon Hills

Elyse Beth Miller née Manna, 72, Lincolnwood

David "Dovey" Perlove, 79, Northbrook

Terrance Lewis Palmer, 75, Glenview

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Gertrude Pearson née Minear, 104, Evanston
Visitation Oct. 4, service Oct. 5

William L. Stickney, 82, Glenview
Visitation Oct. 5, service Oct. 6

Edward Keith "Ed" Banker, 93, Geneva
Service Nov. 23

Nicholas Anthony "Pop" Peters, 68, Glenview

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Jack Lauders, 92, Morton Grove

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Weston "Bud" Parker, 89, Niles

Jean R. Mayer née Owens, 87, Morton Grove

Dorothy M. Noel née Berthoux, 87, Morton Grove

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

Hazel Fleischmann, 97, Northfield
Service Oct. 2

Andrew S. Kotz, 53, Glencoe
Service Oct. 3

Rozalyn "Roz" R. Pearlman, 93, Northbrook

Khacha Shustin, 87, Buffalo Grove

Arlene R. Rutstein née Zeller, 82, Estero, Florida

Louis S. Lazare, 71, Skokie

Ella Sklyar, 70, Skokie

Randy Schreiber, 67, Des Plaines

Thompson Funeral & Cremation Services 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Linda Harris
Visitation and service Oct. 4

Abelard "Loudy" Rudolph Harmon, 84, Evanston

Evanston Funeral & Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Linda Jean Noyle, 76, Morton Grove

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

Ellyn J. Landman, 91, Glenview
Service Oct. 12

Vonette Sarché Zupko, 71, Chicago
Service Oct. 12

Featured Obituary:

Longtime investment banker and philanthropist Stanley M. Freehling, widely hailed as Chicago’s Patron Saint of the Arts, and “the third lion” of the Art Institute, died peacefully Friday, September 20, at his Highland Park home, surrounded by family. He was 95.

A native son of Chicago, Freehling was born in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood, attended the University of Chicago and received his BA from the University of Stockholm. For decades he was a Senior Partner with Freehling and Company, a NYSE firm on LaSalle Street. Intensely devoted to the civic life of Chicago, he served as a Life Trustee of the University of Chicago, a trustee of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the John G. Shedd Aquarium, Lake Forest College, and the Chicago Public Library.

His greatest passion, however, was for the arts, where his accomplishments have left an indelible mark on the city. With his business savvy and avuncular affability, Freehling raised millions of dollars for such venerable institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ravinia Festival, the Arts Club of Chicago, the Goodman Theatre, and many more. He served as Chairman of Ravinia, President of the Arts Club, a Life Trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago and Chairman of the Sustaining Fellows of the Art Institute, and as a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Hubbard Street Dance Company. He served as the chairman of the Illinois Arts Council, as a member of the Chicago Theatre Group, the National Corporate Theatre Fund, and Sadler’s Wells Theatre Association in London. In 1985, Ronald Reagan appointed Freehling (along with Frank Sinatra) to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

Mr. Freehling’s talent for parting donors with their money was legendary, and he jokingly referred to himself as a “pickpocket.” Martin Koldyke, former chairman of WTTW labeled Stan and his wife Joan “The Robin Hood and Maid Marian of Chicago,” saying “They are great robbers of the rich.”

His long association with the Art Institute began in 1950 when, as a young executive-in-training at the First National Bank of Chicago, he volunteered to serve as treasurer. Freehling went on to serve on multiple boards and committees. More than 250 works in the permanent collection include Joan and Stanley’s name in their credit lines. Their connoisseurship and special devotion to works on paper were recognized by the Art Institute with the exhibition Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings and Patronage in 2008. Their generosity can be found in the Modern Wing as well—Karl Schmidt-Rotluff’s Two Girls in a Garden (1914), a gift made in memory of Freehling’s mother, and Max Beckmann’s Bathers (1928) are two notable works donated to the permanent collection.

The Founding Chairman of the Goodman Theatre, Freehling launched a $2 million campaign in the 1970s to make the Goodman a self-governed institution, independent of the Art Institute where it had been flailing financially. He also started the first capital fund drive at Ravinia to raise more than $2.2 million to rebuild the Pavilion stage (redesigned by George Balanchine), enlarge the orchestra pit, and install a new sound system. As Chairman of the Ravinia Festival in 1967, he hired Edward Gordon, a brilliant arts administrator with the admonition “let’s turn this organization around,” and turn it around they did. Ravinia held a special place in Freehling’s heart. It was there that he courted Joan (nee Steif), who was a formidable fundraiser herself, compiling the Noteworthy cookbook for Ravinia’s Women’s Board, which made the New York Times best-sellers list.

Mr. Freehling was instrumental in identifying and funding numerous works of public art in the city of Chicago. The Dubuffet in the front of the State of Illinois Center and the Miro at the Brunswick Building are among the most visible. At Ravinia he guided the establishment of the park’s collection of outdoor sculpture. Richard Hunt’s massive two-piece Music for a While was the first sculpture in Ravinia’s ever-growing collection that now includes works by Plensa, Chadwick, and Botero.

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