Martha Blackman, widow of rabbi, buried on Feb. 22

MARTHA MECKLENBURGER BLACKMAN,a resident of New Orleans for more than 45 years, passed away on February 19, 2015 following a brief illness. She was the wife of Temple Sinai Rabbi Murray Blackman of blessed memory to whom she was married for 54 years.

A native of Chicago, Blackman graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois and attended Western College for Women. After her marriage to her husband in 1947, the couple lived in Newark, N.J. and Binghampton, N.Y. They lived in Paterson, N.J. and Cincinnati before moving to New Orleans for the first time in 1970, when her husband received his appointment as senior rabbi, replacing Rabbi Julian Feibelman.

She stayed a resident of New Orleans even after Rabbi Blackman passed away in 2001. She relocated to Raleigh, N.C. to be near two of her children following Hurricane Katrina, but returned to the Crescent City in 2009, where she remained until the time of her passing.

Blackman is survived by three children, Michael and Barbara Blackman of Durham, N.C. and Margaret; a brother, Alvin Mecklenburger of Highland Park, IL., and numerous nieces and nephews.

Graveside services took place at Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3, 2119 Frenchman Street at Pelopidas Street on Sunday February 22, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Rabbi Edward Paul Cohn of Temple Sinai officiated.

In lieu of flowers, memmorials are suggested to Second Harvesters Food Bank, Temple Sinai or the charity of your choice.

Tharp-Sontheimer Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Online memorials here.