Businesswoman Ruth Goldman Asher’s rites to be held on Sunday morning

RUTH GOLDMAN ASHER, a retired businesswoman, died on August 12, 2016. She was 93 years old.

Asher was a retailer living in her hometown of Bogalusa for most of her life until she retired in 1985 here.  She first lived in New Orleans more than seven decades ago when she enrolled at Newcomb College. Following graduation, she moved to Washington, DC, where she worked for the Department of the Navy during World War II.

After the war she returned to Bogalusa, where she helped run her family retail business, Goldman’s of Bogalusa, with her husband Adolph Asher and her brother Bernard Goldman.

Asher served as president of the Bogalusa chapter of Hadassah and was a member of the Bogalusa Civic League, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Sisterhood of Congregation Gates of Prayer, where she affiliated after her retirement. She was preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Adolph Edward Asher.

She is survived by her children Marilyn (Joe) Kline, Harold (Carol) Asher, Eilene (Barry) Spizer, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren

A funeral service took place on Sunday, August 14 at 11:00 am at Congregation Gates of Prayer with Rabbi Robert Loewy officiating.

For those that wish to make memorial donations in lieu of flowers, Asher’s family has designated: Congregation Gates of Prayer, 4000 West Esplanade Ave, Metairie, LA 70002; Jewish Children’s Family Service , Attn. Bogalusa Fund, PO Box 7368, Metairie, LA 70010-7368; or Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), 1600 Oretha Castle Haley, New Orleans, LA, 70113.