Preservationist, volunteer Lillian Levin passes

LILLIAN WRIGHT LEVIN, a  preservationist and volunteer for a great many community organizations including the New Orleans Museum of Art and the National Council of Jewish Women, died today in New Orleans. She was the devoted wife of the late Dr. Irving A. Levin for 58 years.

A native of Eunice, LA and a resident of New Orleans since 1945, Levin was a graduate of Newcomb College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.  She was married for 58 years to the late Dr. Irving R. Levin.

Levin is survived by her sons Dr. Alan Louis Levin (Marilyn) and Dr. Louis Wright Levin (Donna), brothers Morris Wright and Sidney Wright, sisters Sylvia W. Stern and Beth Bloch Rosenthal and four grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted in the Feibelman Chapel of Temple Sinai, 6227 St. Charles Ave. on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, with visitation beginning at 12:00 Noon.  Rabbi Edward Paul Cohn officiated with interment immediately following in Hebrew Rest Cemetery No.

Memorials are suggested  to the Levin Family Fund at LSU Health Sciences Center Foundation,   450-A South Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112 or Second Harvest Food Bank, 700 Edwards Avenue Jefferson, LA 70121.  Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home of Metairie was in charge of arrangements.