North Shore Death Notices: Sept. 24 - Sept. 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

Muriel Zahnle née Lemm, 98, Deerfield
Visitation Oct. 2, service Oct. 3

Robert Mann Silberman, 94, Highland Park

John Eric Deimel, 92, Glencoe

Marion Nelson, 92, Northbrook

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

John S. Wilson, 96, Lake Forest

Lenore Germaine Romanchek, 84, Vernon Hills

Irene Blakeley, 83, Lake Forest

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

Mary Cashen Metcalf née McKinney, 82, Lake Forest
Visitation Oct. 5, service Oct. 6

William "Bill" Johnson Hart, 75, Lake Bluff

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Sam Schechter, 89, Des Plaines
Service Oct. 2

Jack Block, 82, Chicago
Service Oct. 3

Izrail Elenkrig, 94, Wheeling

Allan Coleman, 93, Highland Park

Jacquelyn A. Levine, 88, Evanston

Marcella Silver, 76

Caryl Festenstein, 75, Morton Grove

Alexander "Sasha" Kogan, 69, Northbrook

Evelyn D. Stone, Chicago

Florence Halprin, Glenview

Sondra Goodman

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Arthur George Salzman, 89, Evanston
Visitation Oct. 3, service Oct. 4

Sue “Suzy” Anne Gaynor, 86, Wilmette
Visitation and service Oct. 4

Richard H. Langrill, 77, Glenview
Visitation Oct. 5, service Oct. 6

Paul Richard Klein, 90, Evanston

Paul Thomas Carr, 41, Buffalo Grove

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Thanh Ear, 80, Skokie
Service Oct. 5

Patrick C. Schaefer, 37, Chicago
Service Oct. 11

Helen Verderber née Musso, 94, Skokie

Joan B. Weincord née Collingwood, 80, Skokie

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Diane Sokniewicz, 88, Morton Grove

Joyce F. Gatz, 78, Chicago

Featured obituaries:

It is with great sadness that the family of Thanh Ear announces her passing after her enduring battle with cancer, at 1:42 p.m., on Friday, September 28, 2018, at the age of 80. Thanh Ear was a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother that will forever be missed.

Mrs. Thanh Ear was born on September 9, 1938, in Moung Ruessei District, Battambang Provence, Cambodia. Mrs. Ear had a total of seven children, four who have passed away, and three who are still alive.

Mrs. Ear lost her husband in 1976, during the Khmer Rouge Regime and had been a single mother ever since. Her focus was raising and caring for her children and grandchildren the best that she could provide.

Mrs. Ear was family orientated and a devoted Buddhist. Her hobbies were spending time with her family, sewing, gardening, and going to the temple to make merits. Before her passing, Mrs. Ear resided in Skokie with her only daughter Savann Min.

Mrs. Thanh Ear was preceded in death by her husband Min Nhanh, her brother Ear Srun, and her sister Ear Thor. She leaves behind her older sister Ear Thok, her children Phan Min, Savann Min, Bunthoeun Min; Her grandchildren, Chantha Min, Buntheouth Min, Steven Lim, Chanmarina Min, Gevin Min, Melanie Min, Darrien Min, Henry Lim, Charida Min, and Heleena Lim; Her great-grandchildren Kayden Sung, Jaylen Lim, Francisco Gracia-Min, Rylan Sung, Theodore Min, Sophina Lim, Delilah Min, Kairi Sung, EhDoh Saw, Ehler Saw; as well as her beloved sidekick, Bruno.

A remembrance of Thanh Ear’s life will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at HABEN Funeral Home & Crematory, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie.

Memorial donations may be made to the Cambodian Buddhist Temple of Chicago, 1755 Howard Ave, Des Plaines, IL 60018, toward the renovation project of the Temple’s new home in order to better serve our Cambodian Community of Chicago and surrounding suburbs.

via Haben Funeral Home

Arthur George Salzman, 89, passed away on September 29, 2018. He was a devoted husband to his wife Joan for 66 years, and the loving father of Lisa (Steven Bosco) and David. Art was the dear “Opa” of Nicholas (Ellen), Andrew (Katie), and Amanda, and a “great-grand-Opa” to Alanna. He was preceded in death by his parents and by his brother Wesley Donald (“Pete”) Salzman.

Art was born in Chicago on June 20, 1929, to Mildred Olive (Olsen) and Russell Harvey Salzman. From his interest in genealogy he discovered a long Salzman history as Swiss Amish Mennonites; the family immigrated to Alsace-Lorraine in France before arriving in the United States in 1831. On his mother’s side he descended from recent immigrants to Chicago from Oslo, Norway, and Säffle, Sweden. He fondly remembered childhood visits to the extended Salzman family’s farms near Bloomington. After his father’s death in 1942, Art, Pete, and their mother lived with his grandparents George and Cecelia Olsen; late in life he remembered speaking Swedish with them at home.

Art attended Foreman High School in Chicago before entering the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering in 1952. He married his sweetheart, Joan Marie Larson, later that summer, but left very soon to serve in the US Army, 4th Infantry Division headquarters, at Coleman Kaserne in Gelnhausen, West Germany (1952-54). During his occasional leaves of absence he enjoyed visiting with his mother’s extended family in Sweden, contacts which the family continues to maintain.

Art and Joan lived in Chicago in the 1950s and ‘60s and their two children were born there. He began his professional career after the service, working for a small architectural firm for several years. In the late 1950s he began studying for his Master of Architecture degree at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1960). He was a student and assistant to Mies van der Rohe during those years, and he began working for Mies’s office in 1960. He stayed with the office and its successor firms until 1992.

Not really one to retire, Art maintained a small private architectural and consulting practice until 2007. During this period he served as a member of the committee revising and restructuring the Chicago Building Code (1994-2004) and did a brief stint as an adjunct professor at IIT (2005-06). Art was a longtime member of the American Institute of Architects and served the Chicago Chapter in various positions. He was also a member of the Chicago Committee on High-Rise Buildings.

From the early 1960s Art was an active member of the Unitarian Church of Evanston, and the family moved to Evanston in 1969. He joined the church choir in 1973, beginning a long avocation as a singer and performer. After that start, he was off and singing: 14 years with the Northwestern University Community Chorus, 10 years with the North Shore Choral Society, and, starting in 1981 a long association with the Savoyaires, with whom he performed such beloved Gilbert and Sullivan shows as The Mikado, The Yeoman of the Guard, H.M.S. Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance. From there he branched out into community theater with the Wilmette Theater Company and the Winnetka Follies, the Open Door Ensemble Senior Theater, and Still Acting Up. Winding down after 2010, Art participated in the Evanston Levy Senior Center Choraleers for as long as he was able.

Like his father and his brother, Art loved sailing on Lake Michigan. Weekend afternoons racing his little Sunfish off the Dempster Street Beach were among his happiest times. He was beloved by all who knew him for his sunny disposition.

Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. on Oct. 3 at Donnellan Family Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Boulevard, at Old Orchard Road in Skokie. Funeral Service: 10 a.m. on Oct. 4 at Donnellan Family Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Boulevard, at Old Orchard Road in Skokie.

via Donnellan Family Funeral Home

Last week: North Shore Death Notices: Sept. 17 - Sept. 23