North Shore Death Notices: May 12 To May 18

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

Laverne Borchers, 93, Oak Lawn

Barney Martin Berlin, 85, Glencoe

Charlotte Dubin, 85, Northbrook

Jacqueline Slotkin, 81, Wilmette

Edward Michael Burgh, 79, Evanston

Barbara D. Wolin, 74, Chicago

Harvey Mayerowicz, 73, Richton Park

Debra Ann Millenson, 72, North Bethesda, Maryland

Bennett Allen Kaye, 67, Wilmette

Luba Brodsky, 66, Wheeling

Ruth Joy Pollakov, 61, Buffalo Grove

Bertha C. Dolton, Chicago

Catherine Gallagher, Buffalo Grove

Mark Gerstein, Wilmette

Miriam Arlene Siegel, Chicago

Barry Sugarman, Chicago

Bernard Zeller, Chicago

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

William P. McKeever, 96, Glenview

Lawrence McCaffrey, 94, Evanston

Anita Cavallari, 86, Wilmette

Barbara Hammond Marran, 85, Wilmette

Bruce R. Johnson, 82, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Helen F. Weber née Krueger, 97, Skokie

Gustella Conley née Andrews, 94, Skokie

Sam Joseph Battaglia, 91, Skokie

Deo Bhagwandat, 86, Chicago

Michael Aaron Rampey, 39, Evanston

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

Sylvia Kardon née Mayer, 95, Chicago

Minora Rasky, 95, Buffalo Grove

Adele Goldberg née Goldman, 93, Lincolnwood

Helene E. Eicoff, 91, Chicago

Herbert Forman, 89, Chicago

Ellen J. "Elky" Gurson née Beck, 85, Northbrook

Ella I. Zalkind, 84, Skokie

Robert Martin Sommerfeld, 81, Deerfield

Marilyn Yaseen, 80, Chicago

Gerald "Jerry" Ordman, 78, Glencoe

Norman Y. Liu, 76, Chicago

Barbara A. Bessinger, 75, Northbrook

Thompson Funeral & Cremation Services, 1917 Asbury Ave. in Evanston

Mary Cooper, 93, Evanston

Fredell Foreman, 78, Evanston

Evanston Funeral & Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Josefa B. Montenegro, 91, Wilmette

Richard Wayne Potter, 88, Evanston

Heriberto Ponce, 86, Chicago

Gail M. Gill, 81, Wilmette

Carol Ann Fischer, 63, Skokie

Oscar Oswaldo Monagas Palencia, 63, Skokie

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Rosalie Frake née Trini, 91, Wheeling

Marion L. Boemmel, 89, Morton Grove

John P. Sfickas, 65, Chicago

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

Janet P. Baker, 89, Aberdeen, Maryland

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

Thomas L. Berry, 95, Deerfield

Carroll F. Gleason, 50, Vernon Hills

Seguin & Symonds Funeral Home, 858 Sheridan Road in Highwood

Corina Ulrich, 46, Prospect Heights

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

Donald Edward Dieball, 89, Lake Forest

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Leroy L. "Lee" Schwaba, 90, Lake Forest

Gayle Faye Campbell, 78, Lake Forest

Patrick Roemer, 18, Lake Forest

Featured Obituary:

Barbara Hammond Marran, long-time Wilmette resident, recently of Winnetka, passed away Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at Evanston Hospital. She was 85.

She was born Barbara Grant Hammond on June 22, 1934 to Grant and Dorothy (Bews) Hammond in New Haven, Conn.

An exemplary and accomplished student at Lauralton Hall, Barbara graduated at age 16, then shocked her family by choosing the University of Maryland over the women’s Catholic college she was expected to attend. That brave choice determined the course of her wonderful journey, as she met graduate student Jim Marran at Maryland’s Newman Club.

Jim delighted in telling how he first glimpsed Barbara leading a tour of the school library, exuding her trademark grace and leadership, and how early dates in nearby Washington, D.C. included studying at the Library of Congress and attending Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inaugural parade.

James and Barbara were married August 25, 1956 in New Haven. They soon followed his teaching career to Illinois, moving first to Evanston before making Wilmette their family home.

Say what you will, but Broken Heart Syndrome exists: Jim, her husband of 63 years had passed away on April 26. In all those years of marriage, they had never been apart more than two weeks; on day 16, it seemed it was time. They are together again, and that is as it should be.

Barbara was passionate about her role as wife, homemaker, and mother to their four children, as well as her professional and philanthropic endeavors.

In the early ‘70s, Barbara joined a Wilmette law firm as an administrative assistant, then decided to attend night school at Mallinckrodt College in Wilmette to become a paralegal, which was a new profession at that time. While with the firm she co-authored a legal manual. Barbara also worked for McDougal Littell Publishing and Northwestern University before her retirement.

Barbara was a tireless volunteer and generous supporter of charities and organizations. She was Girl Scout leader and wrote an original musical for cookie season that the troop performed to different sectors of the community; was a record-breaking year for Troop 462.

Along with her husband, Barbara, in later years, volunteered as a teacher for the ESL Program at the Skokie Library, not only teaching English but gaining friends along the way

Barbara was a quiet but powerful advocate for equal rights. Through phone calls and a letter campaign to the higher ups at The Chicago Daily News, she was able to single-handedly change policy forever so that her newspaper carrier daughter, Julia, and other female winners, were able to go on a trip to California due to selling the most newspaper subscriptions for their branches. Until that time, winning female carriers were not allowed to go on the trips but received a monetary award instead. Barbara would have none of it and took matters into her own hands.

She was creative in all aspects of her life. When she knew her two youngest boys were devoted to baseball, she took two major league baseballs, hollowed out one end of each (how she did that was never revealed) and attached them to curtain rods for their bedrooms. For Jim’s 50th birthday party, Barbara rented a Wilbus, the community bus company, to pick up the party guests, drive to their house, and surprise Jim with a busload of revelers.

Barbara passed down her traditional recipes including chocolate refrigerator cake, an entire cookbook of soups, and of course her holiday Chex Mix which no one else can quite duplicate.

Send obituaries and images to your Patch to be included in future editions: Deerfield, Evanston, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Bluff-Lake Forest, Niles-Morton Grove, Northbrook, Skokie, Winnetka-Glencoe-Northbrook, Wilmette-Kenilworth

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