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

Diane Winicour, 72, Lake Bluff
Service Nov. 2

Mary J. Herr née Swanson, 82, Deerfield
Service Nov. 19

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

Dickie Ray Wyatt, 81, Highwood

Amedeo Stefani, 78, Lake Forest

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Wenban Funeral Home, 320 Vine Ave. in Lake Forest

Carolyn Ann Davidson, 88, Lake Bluff
Service Nov. 11

Hildegard Koenig Behrens, 70, Lake Forest

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

Stephen Dunn MacFarlan, 89, Lake Forest
Services Nov. 12

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

Jerome J. Hausman, 96, Evanston
Service Nov. 3

Janet A. Swig née Fireman, 90, Northbrook
Service Nov. 3

Albert Hazan, 100, Chicago

Rochel Leah “Rochelle” Frank née Sachs, 91, Chicago

Kate Trynin Kestnbaum, 87, Chicago

Dorothy Meister, 86, Chicago

Ellen Lasser LeVee, 69, Chicago

Jason Grafman, 47, Buffalo Grove

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Donnellan Funeral Home, 10045 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie

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

Smit Hart, 96, Des Plaines

Gloria May Foster, 93, Skokie

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Simkins Funeral Home, 6251 Dempster St. in Morton Grove

Markar Adjemian, 53, Morton Grove
Service Nov. 4

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

Viola G. Cox née Karsten, 92, Glenview
Service Nov. 3

Marilyn J. Poor née Carlson, 90, Northbrook
Service Nov. 6

Ann J. Duthie, 56, Northbrook
Service Nov. 18

Patricia Carol Avena née Miller, 84, Northbrook

William F. Kwaak, 59, Schaumburg

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

Lillian Sax, 98, Niles

Robert “Bob” H. Kaul, 84, Riverwoods

Sue Karen Winer née Samors, 82, Northbrook

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Featured Obituary:

Edward J. (Duke) Dellin resident of Naples, Florida, formerly of Glencoe, IL died peacefully after a battle with pancreatic cancer on October 30, 2021.

Beloved husband to Catherine Connor Dellin. Father to Jeffrey (Kelly), Tomas (Becky), Phillip (Alison) Prange, David (Kate) Prange, Catherine (Nick) Hurtgen and grandfather to Lilliana, Charlotte, Jack and Caroline Dellin, and Ellen, Connor, Amelia, Maeve and Alexandra Prange and Nicholas, Mary and Abigail Hurtgen. He was a loving brother to his sister Jane (Paul)Hahn and uncle to Marcela (Albie) Kelley and Renee (Brian) Burke and great-uncle to their children. Duke was preceded in death by his parents Eduard and Marie Dellin.

Duke was born in Prague on July 19, 1940. He and his family left communist Czechoslovakia in a daring escape in 1948. Duke’s father had been active in democratic politics and government before the Nazi invasion and in the resistance to the Communists afterwards. These activities made the family a deadly target under Soviet rule. After their escape, Duke and his family spent a difficult year in a Displaced Persons camp in war-ravaged Germany before immigrating to Chicago in 1949.

Duke’s father had been Secretary of the Czechoslovak Sugar Beet Growers Association, a leader in the Agrarian Party of Czechoslovakia, and an official at the Ministry of Agriculture. In Winnetka they took positions as domestic servants. Saving every penny, his father started and built a successful landscaping and tree nursery business on Chicago’s North Shore. Duke spoke no English but was thrown into a new environment in Winnetka Public Schools. After graduating from New Trier High School and then Knox College, Duke began a 55 year career in the investment business. He started with Hornblower & Weeks in Chicago, then spent the last 37 years of his career at William Blair & Co. as an investment advisor, rising to become a partner.

Duke was active in the Captive-Nations Committee efforts to free his native country from totalitarian Soviet rule during the Cold War. After the fall of communism in 1989, Duke returned to the newly-freed Prague. Inspired by that visit he took an active role in fostering close relations between America and Czechoslovakia. He was asked in 2003 to become Chairman of the Prague-Chicago Sister Cities organization and served as Chairman for 15 years. Duke became a trusted and well-liked advisor to both American and Czech ambassadors, diplomats and businessmen. He was twice honored by the Czech government for his exceptional efforts improving American-Czech relations. He received the Czech nation’s “Gratias Agit” award in 2014 given to prominent leaders who “do the most to promote the good name of the Czech Republic abroad”. In 2020, Duke received the Medal of Merit in Diplomacy from the Czech government “for his significant and long standing achievements in the development of international relations between the Czech Republic and the United States of America.”

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