North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 18 - Dec. 25

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.

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

Kathy L. Smith, 59, Evanston
Visitation Dec. 29, Mass Dec. 30

Franz H. Witte, 91, Wilmette
Visitation Dec. 29, Mass Dec. 30

Millicent Irene Kushner Mahmassani, 63, Evanston
Service Jan. 3

Richard "Ritch" P. Kropp. 77, Wilmette
Visitation Jan. 4, Mass Jan. 5

Cynthia Freese née Morgan, 60, Northfield
Visitation Jan. 5

Cornelia I. Schulteis, 106, Wilmette

June Anne Houlihan née O’Donnell, 89, Northbrook

Margaret Mitchell Hastings, 80

Joan Mae Reseck née Schuler, 78, Winnetka

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Maria H. Michaelides née Petta, 90
Visitation Dec. 28, Service Dec. 29

Dorothy B. Hyland, née Bright, 90, Skokie
Visitation and Service Dec. 29

George "Sonny" P. Blameuser, 88, Skokie
Visitation Dec. 29, Service Dec. 30

Athena Loutsch née Levas, 93, Chicago

John “Jack” A. Dahlberg, 92, Skokie

Loretta M. Rath née Swartz, 70, Glenview

Sheila M. Burden, 65, Evanston

Drago Bradaric, 53, Chicago

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Boulevard in Skokie

Robert Kane, 59, Highland Park
Service Dec. 28

Bernard Wendrow, 97, Highland Park
Service Dec. 28

Howard Daryl Goldstein, 69, Chicago
Service Dec. 28

Sheldon Wilens

Shirley Schmidt

Leonard J. Robins, 103

Meryl Kieca née Rosen, 63, Chicago

Daniel Gray, 66, Evanston

Muriel L. Furlager, 68, Skokie

Edward L. Rosenthal, 69, Bolingbrook

Miriam S. Kohn née Sostheim, 95, Homewood

Phyllis Pavalon, 84, Highland Park

Myron W. Perlman, 70, Chicago

Joseph Engberg, 93, Skokie

Leah Mosak, 95, Skokie

Elaine Feinner, 97, Highland Park

Florence Mayefsky née Debofsky, Chicago

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster Street in Morton Grove

Joseph F. Ryan, 58

Service Jan. 4

Steve Steyer, 88, Morton Grove

Eufemia E. Carino, 89, Skokie

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Avenue in Lake Forest

Lois Morahan, 87, Lake Forest
Service Dec. 30

Norma Riddel Murphy, 90, Lake Forest

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

Warren A. Lau, 101, Chicago

Maryellen B. McCluskey, 60, Deerfield

Robert C. Swift, 87, Northbrook

Featured Obituary:

Carol McCue, age 94, of Chicago, IL. Loving daughter of the late John D. and Ethel McCue née Sullivan. Carol will be missed by her dear friends and devoted caretakers Sam and Hanife ‘Holly’ Durakovic. Born in Evanston on July 7, 1923 to John Dominic McCue (born in CT) and Ethel S. Sullivan (born in IL). In 1930, John and Ethel moved to Wilmette to raise their family.

Carol was fresh out of business school when she landed a job with the Chicago District Golf Assn. in 1942. That same year she helped the organization stage the Hale America National Open, one of the biggest tournaments of the year at that time. It was held at Chicago’s Ridgemoor Country Club as a substitute for the U.S. Open, which had been cancelled by the U.S. Golf Assn. in respect to the (World War II) war effort. Ben Hogan won the title.

"After that summer almost everyone left because of the war effort," McCue said in an interview published years later. "There wasn’t much to (the job) then. All we did was tournaments and handicaps."

The CDGA, founded in 1914, grew dramatically after McCue took charge and she became known as the First Lady of Chicago golf. She held titles of both executive secretary and executive director during her 42-year career with the organization. The CDGA now has its own spacious offices in Lemont, but during McCue’s tenure the group had office space first in the LaSalle Hotel.

When a fire destroyed that building in 1968, she moved the office to the American Dental Assn. building in Chicago and then to Oak Brook. For much of that period McCue led a staff that had just one or two other members.

Still, McCue brought the CDGA into the computer age. The CDGA had computerized handicaps for its thousands of members long before the bigger, nation-wide U.S. Golf Assn. did. She also created the Illinois Open, which made its debut in 1950 and remains the premier tournament for Illinois golfers.
After leaving the CDGA in 1984 McCue became vice president of Jemsek Golf. Among her many projects for that group, which operates several Chicago golf facilities, was the creation of The Sizzler -- one of the country’s biggest junior tournaments.

When the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame was created in 1989 McCue was one of the eight original inductees.

Information below is on display at the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame

Carol was executive director of the Chicago District Golf Association for over 40 years and was known as the ‘First Lady’ of the Chicago District golf. When she took over the CDGA office, it was a one-person operation. She saw the district grow into the computer age, overseeing the computerization of handicaps long before the USGA followed suit. The CDGA also started the Illinois Open under her reign, commenced the annual Masters charter, and expanded the association's reach by adding the public courses to active membership. She served as tournament chairman for the United States Public Links Championship in 1989, the year after creating the Sizzler, one of the country's largest junior tournaments, while serving as a vice president of Jemsek Golf. In 1989, she was the first woman inducted into the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame.

'The First Lady' article in the Chicago District Golf Association at 90

Funeral Service: Friday, December 29, 2017, 10:00 a.m. at Donnellan Family Funeral Home. Interment: Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, IL.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to: Chicago District Golf Association Foundation

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