Helen Tulsky
October 25, 1918 - January 29, 2016
Date and Time
Monday, February 1, 2016 at 12 Noon
Service
Chicago Jewish Funerals
Skokie Chapel
8851 Skokie Boulevard
Skokie, Illinois 60077
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Interment
Memorial Park Cemetery
9900 Gross Point Road
Skokie, Illinois 60076
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Shiva
Tulsky Residence
1217 Hinman Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60202
847.332.4051
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Following the interment
Memorial Contributions
Community Counseling Center of Chicago
4740 North Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60640
www.c4chicago.org.
OBITUARY
Helen M. Tulsky, 97, a joy filled soul who devoted herself for more than 40 years to helping young people succeed, died Friday due to complications of a stroke she suffered last weekend. Born Helen Shulamith Mailick, daughter of Abraham and Bessie Chapman, Tulsky spent 23 years teaching youth with behavioral, emotional and physical handicaps at Evanston Township High School and later another decade at Ida Crown Jewish Academy. Helen received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern in 1939, and went on to receive four master’s degrees over the course of her life. Though in the early 1970s, she faced the loss in just over a year of her husband, George, a physician; her daughter, Elizabeth; and her mother, Helen threw herself into helping others. She also loved the theatre, including an annual trip to the Shakespeare festival in Stratford, Ontario, as well as the opera, and the symphony. She was a life master of the American Contract Bridge League. But she took special joy in the accomplishments of her surviving children, sons Rick (Kim Rennard) of Evanston and David (Sindy) of Summit, N.J.; grandchildren Eric (Karen Sosa) of Chapel Hill N.C.; Elizabeth, of Chicago; and Emily, Gwyneth and Evan, of Summit; one great grandchild, Seth of Chapel Hill. Funeral services will be Monday 12 Noon at Chicago Jewish Funerals, 8851 Skokie Blvd (at Niles Center Road), Skokie. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the children’s outpatient program at Community Counseling Center of Chicago, www.c4chicago.org. Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals- Skokie Chapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjinfo.com