North Shore Death Notices: Nov. 4 To Nov. 10

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

Howard Weiss, 94, Chicago
Service Nov. 11

Pyotr Goltser, 90, Des Plaines
Service Nov. 11

Cary G. Blumberg, 66, Northbrook
Service Nov. 12

Bernard "Buddy" Siegel, 95, Olympia Fields
Services pending

Ronald Winer, 88, Chicago
Services pending

Martha Rosen, 85, Mount Prospect
Services pending

Morris Landa, 63, Chicago
Services pending

Abraham Seidman, 99, Chicago

Luba Leites, 88, Chicago

Janet C. Zaslow, 74, Chicago

Roozbeh Hakimian, 72, Morton Grove

Edward F. Weinberg, 73, Lincolnshire

James Mark Jacobson, 67, Elmwood Park

Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

Armenag J. Guediguian, 79, Glenview
Visitation and service Nov. 11

Mary Kay Laurent née Gaspar, 60, Evanston
Visitation Nov. 13, service Nov. 14

John P. "Jack" Driscoll, 91, Chicago
Service Nov. 29

Matilda Rudana "Dana" Kimovec, 96, Wilmette

Joseph Sutherland Wright, 81, Evanston

Haben Funeral Home, 8057 Niles Center Road in Skokie

Thomas M. Schultz, 79, Skokie
Visitation Nov. 11, service Nov. 12

Shireen Ismaili Ahmed, 73, Skokie

Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

James E. Jastrowski Jr., 23, Barrington
Service Nov. 11

Lorraine M. LaVigne, 91, Morton Grove

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

Sondra "Sandy" Kalmin née Singer, 84, Deerfield
Service Nov. 11

Philip J. Arendt, 73, Hanover Park
Service Nov. 12

Minnette E. "Minnie" Rich, 96, Chicago

Martha Bitran, 93, Skokie

Leon Krause, 88, Skokie

H. Reed Harris, 84, Chicago

Robert W. Zolomij, 77, Evanston

Kim Burman née Hefter, 59, Buffalo Grove

Evanston Funeral & Cremation, 1726 Central St. in Evanston

Saul Borash, 90, Lincolnwood

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

Mariano Dy, 84, Northbrook
Visitation Nov. 14, service Nov. 15

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

Walter Radke, 83, Highland Park
Visitation Nov. 11, service Nov. 12

Mary Jane "Benjie" Wheatley, 98, Northbrook

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

Stefan "Steve" Heinrich, 89, Lake Bluff
Service Nov. 11

Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Ernest W. Beutel, 73, Lake Forest
Visitation Nov. 15

Mary Lou Ganshirt, 87, Lake Forest
Service Nov. 16

Robert Howard Dawson, 97, Lake Bluff

Featured Obituary:

Dr. Matilda Rudana “Dana” Kimovec was born in 1923 to Johann and Johanna Morak Rant near Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia. Her college years and medical school studies were interrupted by the Second World War. Half of her little country was occupied first by Italians, then Germans and finally by Tito. The family lost their business and all their possessions. After the war, with the help of relatives, she and her sister, Dr. Irena Sejdinaj, were able to cross the Austrian-Slovenian border to the part occupied by the British soldiers. Both were accepted to the student home in Graz run by the British Authority and were able to continue with their medical studies. They graduated from medical school in Graz in April, 1951. One year later both arrived in the USA and started their internship in Milwaukee in July, 1952. At that time, women doctors were a rarity, and especially for sisters! Her older sister, Ivana Puky, opened a successful health food store in Canada in 1962, another woman ahead of her time...

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