Pamela Wallach

Pamela Joy Wallach, 71, of Brookfield, formerly of Phoenix, Ohio and Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, passed away June 3, 2025 after living strongly with a nearly five-year struggle with pancreatic cancer. After graduating from Chicago’s Mather High School in 1976, Pam went to nursing school at Mayfair College (now Truman College Nursing School). She was a High-Risk Labor and Delivery nurse at Northwestern's (old) Prentice Hospital for 17 years where she proudly claimed she helped "birth over a thousand babies." She then trained as an acupuncturist and later as an herbalist. Pam was an instructor at the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture (PIHMA) and also had her private practice under the name “Pearls of Oriental Medicine”. Pamela loved being outdoors and spent time up and down the coast of California, the Caribbean, China (where she trained in Eastern Medicine), the upper midwest and extensively through Arizona. Pam practiced feng shui and had the natural talent of an experienced interior designer. She had an amazingly beautiful voice and could belt out a tune anywhere from Stevie Nicks to Barbra Streisand. Pam was beautiful inside and out. Her medical team often complimented her appearance and said how elegant she looked when she turned up for treatments. Pamela is survived by her devoted husband of two years, Christopher Charles Koranek (bonded together for three decades); her brother Lee (Grazyna Sadowska) Wallach of Glendale, Arizona; nephew Kevin (Katie) Wallach and their children Joshua and Corey Wallach; aunt Char Wallach; and cousins Marla (Joe) Cotteleer, Pen (Ric) Hawthorne, Denise (Bob) Kiss, Lori (the late Ed) LeVitus, Marty (Sheryl) Palmer, Laurie (Dean) Projansky, David (Maria) Wallach; Pam had an undeniable love of all animals, gave a warm home to all her pets over the decades and leaves behind her adored cat, Bella. She was preceded in death by parents Sylvia Deutchman Wallach and Sam Wallach and cousin Larry Wallach. The family would like to thank those who reached out and helped care for Pam, including her doula Erica Reid Gerdes, her close friend Laura (Harold) Hungerford and the Koranek siblings (and their children): Donna Koranek and Jim Fiegel, Jeanne and Tom Bortolini, Jane and Matt DeLorenzo, Marianne Litzau, and John Koranek and Mavis Bates. Pam requested a Tahara by the Progressive Chevra Kadisha. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to The Wellness House in Hinsdale. Family and friends are welcome to join the service Thursday, June 5 at 11am at Shalom Memorial Park, 1700 Rand Rd., Arlington Heights, 60004. Follow cemetery signage to the gravesite. Immediately following the service, all are welcome to celebrate Pam's life at a memorial luncheon. Arrangements by inclusive Funeral Care, 773-318-1305 or www.inclusivefuneralcare.com.

Pamela Wallach

January 17, 1954 - June 3, 2025