North Shore Death Notices: Feb. 28 To March 6

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

David Rice, 86, Barrington
Service March 8

Ben Scheiner, 53, Chicago
Service March 8

Marsha J. Evaskus, 77, Chicago
Service March 14

Helen Frances Beller Newbury, 92, Prospect Heights

Bernard Miller, 86, Chicago

Samoil Grossman, 82, Mundelein

Brenda Wishner, 80, Chicago

Stephen R. Ballis, 76, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Joan Marie Surman née Jeffers, 89, Glencoe
Service March 8

Daniel Patrick Dawson, 85, Wilmette
Service March 8

Muhamet Kazazi, 84, Northfield
Service March 12

Kenning Meredith Anderson, 88, Wilmette

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Theresa Ann Segal née Cyrier, 56, Lake Villa
Service March 12

Robert J. Beckley, 82, Skokie

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

Ernest R. Hiltebrand, 84, Lake Forest
Service March 9

William “Bill” Allen Johns, 70, Wheeling
Visitation March 17

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

Robert Alan Morrison, 65, Skokie
Service March 9

Mimi Peters née Reznick, 86, Chicago
Service March 11

Elayne Perlman, 94, Northbrook

Naum Ligum, 89, Skokie

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

Edward William Chambers, 68, Northbrook
Service March 19

Olive Lloyd Gammel, 82, Highwood

Robert Phillip Kunkel, 74, Lake Forest

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

David John Artac, 81, Winthrop Harbor

Andrew D. Bunta, 79, Lake Forest

Featured Obituary:

Dr. Kenning Meredith Anderson Jr., a beloved son, husband, father, grandfather, and scientist, died peacefully in Evanston, Illinois on Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

Ken was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 17, 1933, to Dr. Kenning Meredith Anderson, Sr. and Mary Louise Anderson (neé Garon). In 1951, he graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School before embarking on his lifelong passion for learning and discovery with a B.A. in Chemistry from Northwestern University (1954) and election to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1958, after receiving his M.D. from Northwestern he interned at Wesley Memorial Hospital and then undertook a residency at Passavant Memorial Hospital, both in Chicago. From 1960 to 1961 he was a U.S. Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern, and in 1961 he was elected to Sigma Xi. In 1962, he joined the Army, where he served as a Captain in the Medical Corps at the American Hospital of Paris. It was there that he met his future wife, Marion Muir, who was a nurse at the hospital, and they married in Harpenden Methodist Church (UK) in May of 1964 before returning to the U.S.

In 1965, Ken received a M.Sc. (Medical Science) from Northwestern and joined the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago as a U.S.P.H.S. Postdoctoral Fellow in the University’s Ben May laboratory for Cancer Research, under Nobel Prize winner Charles Huggins, who helped shape not only the direction of his research, but also his approach to science and life. Ken believed - as his mentor wrote - that “our business is discovery” and shared his view that “cancer is the number one problem of mankind – and we’ve got to get it licked.” One of Ken’s prize possessions was Dr. Huggins’ desk at which he wrote research papers throughout the entirety of his career.

Ken earned his Ph.D in Biochemistry (1969) with his dissertation on “Selective Retention of Dihydrotestosterone by Prostatic Nuclei in vivo and in vitro.” In 1968, he took up an appointment at the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto (Canada), where he became an Associate Professor in 1972. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada) in 1976. That same year, he returned to the U.S. to be closer to family, settling in Wilmette, Illinois and taking up a position as Associate Professor and Director of the Oncology Laboratory in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s in Chicago. He remained at Rush until he retired, and in 2005 he was promoted to Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry.

From 1962 to the present, Ken published hundreds of single and co-authored papers, chapters, and abstracts in oncology reporting the results of continuous research projects, but also foraying into the fields of immunology and medical hypotheses, among others, as a “lark,” when his curiosity had been piqued. His love of science and discovery animated his career and life. He never stopped reading, researching, learning, and writing, expanding upon and publishing his ideas throughout his retirement. Indeed, just before his death he was reading widely in quantum theory as he worked on yet another paper. His personal library (contained in numerous homemade bookcases) was that of a man with many and varied interests; from philosophy and mathematics, to politics, scientific inquiry, history, art, the classics, amateur radio, and plenty of good old fashioned murder mysteries.

Throughout his life, Ken was equally devoted to his family, who will always recall and dearly miss his wisdom, intelligence, kind nature, humility, humor, and love. He instilled in his children an insatiable curiosity and love of learning; often imparting his wisdom and advice about life to them through the vast supply of historical, philosophical, and political quotes - and poetry - he had committed to memory, as well as a mischievous sense of humour, and lots and lots of clippings from the New York Times. Some of his favorite times were family vacations in Vermont and Quebec, soaking in the peace and tranquility of the lake, marveling at his grandchildren, reading a book, or thinking “great thoughts,” punctuated frequently with heaping plates of whatever culinary concoctions his children had created that day. His life was characterized by a deep sense of decency and duty, and an enjoyment of and profound caring for his family.