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JANET GENSBURGER COHEN, a New Orleans native homemaker passed away on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
She was a graduate of Fortier High School and loved her life as a “domestic goddess,” cooking, arranging her home’s interior and spending time gardening.
...MARSHALL BYRON ORECK, a founding top executive of the Oreck Corporation, the well-known manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and other cleaning equipment, died earlier today, February 26, 2021. He was 92.
With his eldest brother David, Oreck started the Oreck Corporation,...
HELENE TATAR PLOTKIN a teacher for more than four decades and a devoted wife, mother and grandmother, passed away on Sunday February 14, 2021, in Walnut Creek, CA. She was 93.
A native of New Orleans, she was a resident...
EDWARD P. GOTHARD, an attorney and civic leader, died suddenly earlier this morning after complaining of chest pains. Gothard, a partner in the legal firm of Nowalsky & Gothard, APLIC, had been a longtime leader and former president of Congregation...
ALINE STEINMAN ETZKIN ABRAMS, who worked for some time in the retail clothing business, but was mostly noted as a major New Orleans matriarchal figure, died in Brooklyn, New York, on January 28, 2021. She was 95.
Growing up in...
EMILY HART ROSEN, a homemaker and mother passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at the age of 91. Born in Opelousas, she lived in New Orleans her entire life. She attended Sophie Newcomb College before she married...
IRVING DIEZ GOLDSTEIN, whose family had just celebrated his 100th birthday only a few weeks ago, died on Monday, February 1, 2021.
A native New Orleanian, he founded Dance Ranch, a local clothes retailer that specialized in dance wear and...
HERBERT BARTON, a beloved lifelong New Orleanian and a pillar of the Jewish community, died on Friday morning January 22, 2021, only weeks after celebrating his 98th birthday. He succumbed after a brief, but brave battle with the COVID-19 virus.
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Herbert Barton, the emeritus executive director at Temple Sinai, who had served the congregation for more than five decades and the former executive secretary of the Hebrew Rest Association, died early this morning, Friday, January 22.
According to a note...
BARBARA S. LAUFER, a former dental hygienist, passed away peacefully on Monday night, January 18, 2021, from neurological complications resulting from COVID-19. She was 90 years old.
Laufer was predeceased by her husband of 68 years, Beryl Laufer, who died...
