Obituary
Lois Sorkin, 85, beloved wife of the late Allen for 61 years until his passing in in 2023; loving mother of Randy and Barry (Lisa); cherished grandmother of Zach, Ella, and Matthew; aunt and great aunt of Toby, Mark, Jacquie, and Michael; daughter of the late Harry and Gussie. Lois was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on January 25th, 1940, but spent most of her growing up years in Chicago and lived her adult life in Skokie and Lincolnwood. She got her undergraduate degree in English at the University of Illinois, where she met the love of her life Allen, whom she married in 1961.
She was a talented wordsmith and punster with a great love for words and language, humor, and an unrivaled reverence to the rules of grammar. While she spent most of her career and much of her free time editing the work of others, from legal texts to advertising copy, she also wrote and published a number of children's stories, essays, editorials, and other projects of her own. She spent more than 10 years researching, writing, and distributing a family history that was hundreds of pages long, complete with photos, Ellis Island logs, and images of ships that brought her ancestors to America.
While she had many passions and lots that she wanted to do, she was always willing to put her career, her hobbies, her projects, indeed her life, aside for her greatest love-her family. She took tremendous pride in being a wife, a mother, and a grandmother she made sure that her husband, kids, daughter-in-law, and grandkids always knew that they were the most important thing in her world.
She will be remembered for her great wit, her insufferable but brilliant puns, her warmth, her good nature, her fun-loving spirit, and her unwavering kind and generous heart, her strength, and her seemingly limitless capacity to spread love. Memorial donations may be made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, www.nami.org/give. Interment Shalom Memorial Park. Chapel service, Thursday, March 6, 2025; 10 AM at Shalom Memorial Funeral Home at 1700 W. Rand Road, Arlington Heights, IL. For a link to view the service and to leave condolences:www.shalommemorial.org or (847) 255-3520.