North Shore Death Notices: May 15 - May 21

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 Blvd. in Skokie

William E. "Bud" Fuller, 86, Evanston
Service May 21

Regina G. Traisman née Gallagher, 89, Evanston
Visitation May 21, Mass May 22

Dorothy "Rena" Mims Bryson, 88, Evanston
Visitation May 25, service May 26

David M. Sansing, 66, Glenview
Service June 2

Marylind Andresen, 88, Muskegon

Kathleen Ann Ray, 49, Skokie

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Rd. in Skokie

Martin R. "Marty" Barnes, 86, Skokie
Service May 23

Margaret Mary “Peggy” Thoma , 66, Chicago
Service May 24

John A. Buendia, 85, Chicago

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Victor W. Anderson, 90, Morton Grove
Service May 21

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

Irene Dinzburg, 84, Niles
Service May 24

Robert Kornbluth, 95, Lincolnwood

Zelda H. Horowitz, 92, Evanston

Wenben Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Robert E. “Bob” Potts, 91, Lake Forest
Visitation May 21, Mass May 22

Laura Lee Sibley née Berg, 70, Lake Forest

Virginia L. Addington, 61, Lake Forest

Kelley & Spalding Funeral Home, 1787 Deerfield Rd. in Highland Park

Teri C. McGillen, 73, Highland Park

Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Liliya Malishkevich, 93
Service May 22

Eduard B. Panich, 67, Buffalo Grove
Service May 22

Bernard Silberman, 87, Chicago
Service May 25

Isaac Paul Drechsler, 22, Evanston
Service May 25

Anna Novak Heller, 101, Glenview

Shirley Massel, 91, Wilmette

Hanna B. Kravitz, 87, Lincolnwood

Eduard Modilevsky, 77, Vernon Hills

Gary Peckler, 75, Des Plaines

Neal Stein, 54, Chicago

Moshe David Aryeh, Chicago

Paulette Buchbinder, Chicago

Lisa G. Fidell, Valparaiso

Eleanor Green

Elka Kogan

Miriam Michels Davis

William Paul Schwartz

Irving Metz

Featured obituary:

Marty Barnes, passed away peacefully at his Skokie home on Saturday, May 19, 2018. after a decade-long experience with Parkinson’s Disease. It wasn’t a battle as such, with his disease. It wasn’t something that he felt like he had to fight to the bitter end. Marty embraced his Parkinson’s Disease and showed us all how to live a beautiful life with a broken body, not only thriving but thoroughly enjoying his life. What made this so poignant and ironic was the fact that before the first symptoms afflicted his outer body, he was a tremendous athlete and a physical and spiritual force that filled any room that he entered. Of course without the constant and gentle “care giving” afforded to him by his wife of sixty-one years, Patricia, he would not have been able to fully enjoy his final years on this earth.

Marty received many accolades during the course of his glorious life. Although never much for being the “Fixer” around the house, (the hammer found his thumb far more often than the nail), he was a gifted athlete. Being the highest scorer in the league as a basketball player for Quigley North Preparatory Seminary High School in Chicago led to his basketball career at Fort Eustis Army base in Newport News, Virginia. There, he played basketball to entertain the troops during the Korean War. Several professional NBA basketball players were on the roster with Marty. His love of basketball led him to coach scores of kids at St. Margaret Mary Parish school on the north side of Chicago.

While serving as Vice President at Clipper Exxpress Trucking Company he was recognized as Salesman of the Year multiple times in his career. In keeping with his distaste of braggadocio, he kept all of his plaques and awards in an old, beat up cardboard box in the basement.

He also served as Head Lector at both St. Margaret Mary and St. Joan of Arc Catholic parishes in the Chicagoland area. This service kept him close to God as Marty was a devout Catholic. Being on the Board of Directors at the High Ridge YMCA afforded him more opportunities to positively impact the kids in our neighborhood.

Marty was always in a good mood, uplifting anyone lucky enough to have come in contact with him. Being an extrovert, Marty never met a stranger and he endeared himself to anyone who ever met him.

None of these aforementioned accomplishments were as important to him as being a great father, husband and friend. He lived for people…his family and friends. The accolades were just window dressing…things far less important than visiting Uncle Frank in the hospital or coaching his children and neighborhood kids in sports…or the infinite number of times he lived his life for others.

Marty passed away peacefully at his home in Skokie surrounded by his adoring family. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house…tears of joy and happiness for a life well lived. And in the end, he lived long enough to see the Cubbies win the World Series after a short interlude of 108 years. He’s got a smile on his face for that feat.

He is survived by his wife of sixty-one years, Patricia, nee Fischer, of whom he said that he had to rush her to the altar because she was “out of his league”; son, Dr. Daniel (Stacey), a Pediatric Dentist from Port Orange, Florida, son, Brian, an engineer, in Naperville, IL and daughter, Janet (John) McPartlan, a cancer survivor, of Chicago; grandchildren, Mikala Barnes, an Emergency Room Nurse in Port Orange, FL, Matthew “Matty” Barnes, an entrepeneur living on Portland, OR and John “Johnny”McPartlan, of Chicago, his grandfather’s caregiver; and sister, Virginia Walsh. Marty was preceded in death by his sister, Loretta Navarro and brother, Richard Barnes.

A Memorial Mass will be held Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 10:30 a.m. at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 9248 Lawndale Ave., Evanston/Skokie.

via Haben Funeral Home

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