North Shore Death Notices: Nov. 1 To Nov. 7

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.

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

Richard Samuels, 92, Chicago
Service Nov. 10

Diane Wolf née Rubin, 90, Flossmoor
Service Nov. 10

Alice Goodman née Lemko, 97, Skokie
Service Nov. 11

Sharon Avny née Shepardson, 73, Mount Prospect
Service Nov. 11

Edith Klein née Pais, 99, Skokie

Gertrude "Gita" Berzon Gerstein, 93, Lincolnwood

Melvin Potash, 92, Glenview

Yenta Tokman, 91, Wheeling

Sima Messerman, 89, Buffalo Grove

Meir Shapiro, 89, Chicago

Blanche Rose Greenberg née Shidler, 88, Denver

Louise Stein née Simkin, 83, Wheeling

Linda S. Rothstein née Smith, 82, Chicago

Alan E. Fishman, 81, Lincolnwood

Francine Eisen, 76, Northbrook

Barbara Shifrin née Brown , 74, Highland Park

Kenneth Mark Lubowich, 71, Skokie

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Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Janice Ruth Murphey, 95, Evanston
Service Nov. 12

Janet L. Heller née Grinuck, 89, Northbrook
Service Nov. 13

Olga Marinic née Dormihalj, 86, Glenview
Service Nov. 13

James T. Harrington Jr., 54, Winnetka
Service Nov. 13

Jane A. Neuhaus née Rosinski, 95, Skokie
Visitation Nov. 18, service Nov. 19

Bryan Eric Allen, 55, Chicago

Melvyn Schwartz, 81, Wilmette

Terrence M. Walsh, 79, Evanston

Edward Joseph "Duke" Dellin, 81, Glencoe
Service Nov. 4

Carll Vrooman, 86, Evanston

Barbara Ford née Moore, 83, Evanston

Mary Anne Cappo, 80, Evanston

Thomas A. Volini, 75, Oak Brook

Mark Michael Anderson, 70, Glenview

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Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Claudette L. Roberts née Patheal, 79, Skokie
Visitation Nov. 10, service Nov. 11

Eva Schejbal née Saidlova, 90, Skokie

Kenneth Byron Hatfield, 87, Chicago

Edward P. Mikos, 86, Skokie

Carolynn Wendt née Kotowski, 76, Chicago

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Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Rita Mae Schey née Wasco, 87, Skokie
Service Nov. 10

John B. Slater, 100, Morton Grove

Dorothy Voss, 86, Elmhurst

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

Iñaki Bascaran, 23, Chicago
Service Nov. 10

Sarkis “Sam” Karnouzian, 84, Glenview
Service Nov. 12

Norma Jean Schwall, 95, of Mount Prospect
Service Nov. 13

Edward D. Giberson, 85, of Niles
Service Nov. 13

Marilyn J. Poor née Carlson, 90, Northbrook

Viola G. Cox née Karsten, 92, Glenview

John Karasi, 89, Forest Park

Virginia Frances Edwards née Gondek, 77, Glenview

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

Abram Dukarevich, 92, Skokie
Service Nov. 10

Sonia Spinka née Comiss, 107, Olathe, Kansas
Service Nov. 12

Agnes "Aggie" Grabow née Itkin, 100, Skokie

Walter Shulruff, 99, Wilmette

Bernice Ellison née Nevers, 93, Pembroke Pines, Florida

Calvin Kanter, 90, Winnetka

Nan Goodman Feiber, 89, Chicago

Larry Goodman, 83, Buffalo Grove

Diane F. Ianiro, 76, Glenview

Judith A. Young, 74, Waukegan

Steven Harris, 72, Wilmette

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

Arlene June Weith, 80, Deerfield
Service Nov. 20

Elizabeth Loeb Nathan, 94, Winnetka
Service Dec. 11

Jo Pullen Lantz, 97, Winnetka
Service Nov. 20

John Perry McCrae, 87, Lincolnshire

Tracy Joseph Carroll, 56, Seattle

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

Helen Marie Robb née Gentile, 78, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Service Nov. 14

Pedro Reyes Ibarra, 64, North Chicago

Marcus Rafael Reyes Gonzalez, 11 months, Chicago

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Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Pamela Gail Yates, 63, Lake Forest
Service Nov. 13

John "Jack" Schnobrich, 92, Lake Bluff

Jason Gregory Raynor, 42, Highwood

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Featured Obituary:

Kenneth Mark Lubowich, 71, tapped out of the ring for the last time on November 4, 2021 at his home in Skokie, Illinois.

Son of Martin and Shirley, husband to Li Hwa, father to Corey, James, and Kevin, and brother to Donald and Renée. He was known to many as Ken, Uncle Ken, Kenny, Lu Bu Wei, “Hey You!,” and to a select few “Mr. Hey You!”

Ken was a wearer of many hats throughout his life like Beanie, Bucket, and Baseball, as well as Acupuncturist, World Traveller, Teacher, Photographer, Wrestling Coach, Medical Textbook Model, Computer Guy, Tour Leader, Adoption Consultant, Software Designer, and Last Minute Conrad Birdie Replacement in the 1969 Ridotto Players production of “Bye Bye Birdie.” He was also a champion wrestler, tying for first at State his senior year of high school, though he should’ve won. (Fifty years later, and that was still a bad call, ref!)

Throughout his adult life, Ken could barely go anywhere without taking unexpected detours and meeting interesting people (to the dismay of anyone hoping to keep him on schedule). But inevitably, those people became lifelong friends, drawn to his offbeat charm, generous spirit, and infectious enthusiasm.

Ken was ever the optimist, always finding ways to take lemons and turn them into gold. After a robbery cleared out everything in his apartment, he was left with one coat and one haunting question: how ugly was the coat that it wasn’t even worth stealing? With no belongings and a pocket full of insurance money, Ken was ready to travel the world: everywhere from jungles of Malaysia to the streets of Delhi. But he would have to go all the way to Taiwan to meet his beloved wife-to-be, Li Hwa, through their Tai Chi teachers. When Ken proposed, he splurged to make an international phone call to share the good news with his mother. But Shirley was very confused when she asked to speak to Li Hwa and was informed it might be difficult with the language barrier. “Wait. YOU SPEAK CHINESE??” Which was met with an exasperated, “YES!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK I’VE BEEN DOING HERE ALL THIS TIME?!”

After moving with Li Hwa back to Chicago, they raised three sons that were his greatest source of pride (which is incredibly embarrassing for them to write, but unfortunately everyone knows it’s true). Ken was always their #1 cheerleader whether it was at a soccer game, a school play, or a wrestling match and he never passed up the opportunity to share their latest success to anyone who would listen.

In 2018 after a brain cancer diagnosis, Ken was far too stubborn to let the subsequent surgery and treatments dictate what he was going to do. In fact, whenever Ken was asked how he was, he would demonstrate by dropping to the floor for pushups. Even up until the end, Ken continued to brag about his sons, tell inappropriate jokes, and offer his help to all of his friends with anything and everything as if they were family. Because to him, they all were.

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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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