North Shore Death Notices: Dec. 28 To Jan. 3

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.

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie and 195 N. Buffalo Grove Road in Buffalo Grove

Charles "Chuck" M. Gould, 95, Mundelein
Service Jan. 5

Lev Dubinsky, 69, Gurnee
Service Jan. 5

Walter Wiczer, 97, Peoria
Service Jan. 6

Ted "Teddy" Barkow, 83, Mount Prospect
Service Jan. 10

Dorothy E. Cohn, 100, Chicago

Ruth Factor, 97, Buffalo Grove

Jack Rosenberg, 94, Lincolnwood

Norman Golb, 93, Chicago

Lillian L. Brandfon, 92, Lincolnshire

Zoya Fuchs, 92, Skokie

Jean Block née Rose, 92, Wheeling

Lawrence A. "Larry" Sharken, 91, Highland Park

Barbara A. Berk, 87, Wheeling

Sandra "Sandi" Leavitt née Bloch, 87, Glenview

Lidya Belyatsky, 83, Highland Park

Marlene Sandra Shatkin née Wieselman, 81, Northfield

Edward David Friedman, 74, Chicago

Louis Rousseau, 67, Morton Grove

Debra Marlene Greenberg, 65, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Lewis Dean Petry, 94, Evanston

Nancy Ann Murray, 85, Evanston

Mildred "Millie" Akemi Yamada née Kawanaga, 78, Wilmette

Toby Richard Wyatt King, 65, Chicago

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Henry R. Kraus, 98, Glenview

Lorraine S. Hanson née Grandt, 89, Evanston

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Robert Weick, 81, Morton Grove
Visitation Jan. 7, service Jan. 8

Diane L. Nawrocki, 84, Elk Grove Village
Service Jan. 9

Irene Mueller née Donaldson, 92, Morton Grove

Joseph W. Buck, 86, Morton Grove

Stephen A. Molner, 78, Glenview

Plutarch "Taco" Roman, 67, Skokie

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

Gloria Asplundh Harer, 96, Glenview

Barbara C. Nolan, 96, Northbrook

Harold "Sam" D. Samorian, 89, Northbrook

Albert John Dru, 86, Glenview

Donald J. Drag, 74, Glenview

Jeanne “Jeannie” Marion Nystrom Lundsgaard, 66, Buffalo Grove

Thompson Funeral and Cremation, 1917 Asbury Ave., in Evanston

Louise Strong, 101, Evanston
Service Jan. 6

Horace Lee Kennedy, 71, Evanston
Visitation Jan. 15, service Jan. 16

Evanston Funeral and Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Jessica Cornell, 28, Elk Grove Village

Zann Amanda Galindo, 18, Chicago

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

Jacqueline "Jackie" R. Fern née Robinson, 85, Chicago
Service Jan. 5

Pearl White née Sharff, 104, Chicago

Esther Adele Smith, 97, Wilmette

Samuel Weiss, 97, Lincolnwood

Edith Rose Gabiner née Liss, 96, Northbrook

Judith Esther Crystal, 95, Skokie

Calvin Kurtz, 93, Wilmette

Stanford J. Lavin, 91, Skokie

Corinne "Corky" Moch née Soroka, 91, Chicago

Eva H. Perkal, 91, Skokie

Esther Kranick, 90, Winnetka

Carole Silverman, 90, Northbrook

Nella Eskina, 85, Mount Prospect

Lois P. Penn, 83, Schaumburg

Warren Bennett, 80, Chicago

Howard Pitrack, 72, Northbrook

James Wayne Bloyd, 64, Evanston

Julian Nathaniel Taranow, 26, Boulder, Colorado

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood and 11 West Belvidere Road in Grayslake

Geraldo Mambu Moni, 59, Bloomingdale
Service Jan. 6

Frank Anthony Krause, 89, Grayslake
Service Jan. 9

Sandra Cruz Cruz, 49, Hanover Park
Service Jan. 16

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

Donna May Gehrking, 54, Spring Valley, Minnesota

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Helen Yomine, 98, Lake Forest

Arthur William Omes, 92, Lake Forest

Patricia "Pat" M. Farino, 86, Madison

Featured Obituary:

Jack Rosenberg, 94, of Lincolnwood, IL, died Saturday, December 26, 2020 at Swedish Hospital, Chicago.

Born May 21, 1926 in Pekin, Illinois, he was the son of the late Mollie nee Levey and the late Sam Rosenberg.

He attended Pekin Community High School, where he was the only Jewish student and was elected student council president. He began his media career at age 16 when he applied to the Pekin Daily Times, where publisher F.F. McNaughton had heard about the election. He worked his way up, and Mr. McNaughton soon contended Jack was the youngest sports editor of a daily newspaper in America.

He enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and left for boot camp within weeks of his high school graduation in 1944.After returning from World War II in 1946, he took college classes and resumed his newspaper career in Pekin. Mr. McNaughton bought Jack his first typewriter - a Royal Standard that he used and treasured throughout his life.

Jack eventually became a sportswriter for the Peoria Journal, where he won top NCAA awards in 1950 and 1952 for best college baseball reporting.

His dream job since the 5th grade was to cover sports for the Chicago Tribune. When he ultimately was offered the job, he reluctantly turned it down because the $100-a-week salary wasn't enough for him to also support his widowed mother. The sports editor told him everyone starts at $100 a week though he promised to look for a work-around in the coming months.

In the meantime, another opportunity arose – this time with the broadcasting branch of Tribune Company – an offer from announcer Jack Brickhouse to work with him at WGN Television and Radio – at $85 a week. Timing is everything - and Jack decided to take the job in January 1954, producing and writing as part of one of the greatest sports departments ever.As Sports Editor at WGN, he covered the Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Big Ten, and other teams with many of the greats, on-air and behind the scenes.

The clack of "Rosey's" portable typewriter in the background during Cubs broadcasts was part of the soundtrack of summer. He would hang around dugouts, clubhouses, and the front office before games, gathering anecdotes to feed to the announcers throughout the broadcast. He traveled to spring training in Arizona to produce an annual show on the Cubs' prospects. During football season, he covered the Big Ten Game of the Week on Saturdays and the Bears on Sundays.

He met his beloved Mayora Gitlitz in late 1955, proposing within four months and asking if she wanted the ceremony before or after the baseball season. They married on February 5, 1956, a union that lasted 51 years before her death in 2007. They were devoted parents to their children, David and Beth, and delighted grandparents to their six grandchildren.

He loved to share his wisdom with family, whether tips on good writing, how to treat people, or the importance of thanking a favorite teacher. Jack also mentored many in the media or those pondering a life decision, doing his best to support and encourage them.

His long career encompassed a Who's Who of sports and national figures and sweeping changes in broadcasting. In 1962, Jack was part of the WGN team bringing the first trans-Atlantic telecast to Europe – the early moments of a Cubs-Phillies game.

He arranged interviews with Presidents John F. Kennedy in 1961 and Ronald Reagan in 1981, traveling to the White House with Jack Brickhouse for the latter interview to talk baseball. He and Vince Lloyd were tapped in the 1980s to expand Tribune Radio Networks.

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