Obituaries

An Enduring Legacy

by Sherry Thomas • September 15, 2021

She changed lives. She changed the definition of rehabilitative health care. But most of all, Dr. Joanne C. Smith—who died September 6 following a private battle with cancer—changed the paradigm…
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May We Never Forget

by Rochelle Newman Rubinoff • June 30, 2021

Holocaust survivor and social activist Fritzie Fritzshall died June 19 at the age of 91. Frtizshall survived the death camps to become a leading voice for Holocaust education. She served…
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Remembering Nancy Hughes

by Ann Marie Scheidler • September 30, 2019

Beloved longtime Lake Forest resident, mother, grandmother, and friend to many Nancy L. Hughes died on September 15 at Northwestern Memorial Lake Forest Hospital.The 68-year-old was the widow of the…
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A Bank Officer and a Gentleman

by DNS Contributor • March 11, 2019

Mr. Philip W. K. Sweet Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northern Trust Corp., who was a longtime leader in civic affairs in Chicago, passed…
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Thomas Henry Ritter

by DNS Contributor • January 31, 2019

Former commodities trader and longtime Lake Forest resident Thomas Henry Ritter died on January 23, after living with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). He was 74. Mr. Ritter was a husband, dad…
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Peter Roy Carney

by DNS Contributor • January 21, 2019

Former Lake Forest Academy Board Member and Superior Graphite Company Chairman Peter Roy Carney died on January 11, in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 87. Peter was born in Chicago…
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Former TV Anchor Skinner Lifted Spirits with Her …

by Bill McLean • January 15, 2019

It was a Maureen Skinner thing. A radio station would play an Elton John song. She’d turn the volume up on the car radio. She’d then sing along, at the…
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Maureen Jagier Skinner

by DNS Contributor • January 4, 2019

Maureen Jagier Skinner—an accomplished news anchor-reporter in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for many years before returning to Illinois and starting a family with husband Jeffrey Skinner—died on December 23 after a…
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Harold Marshall Morrison

by DNS Contributor • January 3, 2019

Harold Marshall Morrison, was born on February 21, 1932, in Alice Home in Lake Forest and passed away peacefully at home in Lake Forest on November 11, 2018. Harold spent…
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Carl Thomas Sommers

by DNS Contributor • October 22, 2018

Lake Forest resident Carl Thomas Sommers, who served as CEO of Ruprecht Company for 50 years before retiring, died on August 21. He was 79. Born to Thomas and Irene…
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