North Shore Death Notices: Week Of June 20 - June 26

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. Links to those obituaries and notices of upcoming services have been provided below.

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

Adeline Mangoian Davis, 89, Highland Park
Service June 27

Steve Edwin Connor, 88, Wheeling

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Avenue in Lake Forest

Emily Mihelic, 81, Lake Forest
Services June 26

Reuland & Turnbough, 1407 North Western Avenue in Lake Forest

Edwin John Jakubowski, 89, Lake Bluff
Service June 26

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

John D. Saletta, 80, Glenview
Visitation and Mass June 26

Ermite Bernadel, 87, Evanston
Visitation and Mass June 29, 30

Thomas John Kehoe, 74, Wilmette
Visitation Jun 29

Helen Mary Meyers, 83, Wilmette
Visitation and Service July 8

William C. Mitchell, 90, Glenview
Visitation and Mass July 17

Doris Conant, 92, Glenview

William H. "Bill" Jones, 91, Evanston

Patricia Ann LaSalle née Conway, 90, Wilmette

David W. Marr, 78, Chicago

Emmanuel Freeborn Onyeali, 66, Lincolnwood

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Terrance E. Hallagan, 90, Skokie
Funeral and Mass June 26

Katharina Huffnuss née Gutti, 92, Skokie

Ruth E. Jaklin née Grede, 87, Skokie

James A. Dahm, 76, Morton Grove

Nathalia Reposo, 2, Chicago

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

Henri Havdala, 86
Service June 26

Edward Hammerman, 77
Service June 26

Sherman D. Keats, 91
Service June 27

Rose Huttner, 100

Clara Bass, 98

Muriel Levitt, 93

Evelyn Kamikow, 91

Alan Block, 57

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster Street in Morton Grove

William "Bill" Springborn, 101, Morton Grove
Service June 26

Featured Obituary:

On Thursday, June 22nd, Doris Conant passed away in the close presence of her family at Glenbrook Hospital. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1925, Doris was a political activist, feminist, a sculptor, a civic worker, a real estate developer, a philanthropist, a mother, and a grandmother. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where she met Howard Conant (1924 - 2011), her husband of 63 years.

As a civil rights organizer in Chicago in the 1960’s, Doris worked with women and families in public housing. She took her son, Howard Jr., to the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, and marched with Martin Luther King in Chicago. Doris is included in the book, “Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975” Barbara J. Love. She has touched many acting as a role model for feminists and philanthropists everywhere.

Doris had a profound appreciation for the arts, and an undying passion for learning, and taught herself to speak Spanish, French and Italian. Her busy calendar was always filled with philanthropic lunches, political events, book club, theater, and the opera. She read the New York Times every day and loved to play tennis. Her love of tennis was something she and Howard shared with the whole Conant family.

Doris led ERA Illinois, advocating for Illinois to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. She was a founding member of the Chicago Foundation for Women always advocating for the rights of women in all that she did.

Doris and Howard had three children: Alison Conant, Howard Conant, and Meredith George. Doris Conant is survived by her three children and seven grandchildren: Rachel Conant, Madelyn Hjertmann, Sarah Frank, Monica George, Sophie Conant, Mason George, and Andrew Frank.

Memorial Celebration is pending.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to:

Fund for Investigative Journalism at Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) www.donate.chicagopublicmedia.org
or
North Lawndale College Prep (Phoenix Pact)
www.nlcphs.org
or
Chicago Foundation for Women
www.cfw.org
or
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org

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