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MARA ROTHSTEIN KUPPERMAN, a saleswoman at Saks Fifth Avenue, passed away on August 17, 2025. She was 73.
A cherished wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt, she believed with all her heart that family was life’s greatest treasure.
Born in...
LOIS ANN HEIMAN, a longtime resident of New Orleans, passed away on August 14, 2025. She was 93.
A native of Chicago, she enjoyed doing needlepoint, knitting and playing Mah Jongg with her family and friends. She was a devotee...
MARILYN KAPPER GREEN, a homemaker and mother died on Friday, July 11, 2025. She was 85.
A native of Boston and a longtime resident of New Orleans and Metairie, she was extremely outgoing and fiercely independent.
She enjoyed art, fashion,...
ANNETTE SOLOMON GANSAR passed away from natural causes on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, at her home in Metairie, Louisiana. She was 91.
Born in Houston, Texas,. Gansar was a graduate of San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas and worked...
Alan Bergman, an Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Award winning lyricist, died at his Los Angeles home on Thursday, July 17. He was 99.
Bergman wrote almost exclusively for six decades with his wife Marilyn, who died in 2022. They began...
RICHARD SAMUEL FRIEDMAN, a retired banker and philanthropist, passed away with his wife at his side in the early morning hours of July 7, 2025. He was 81.
A native of Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from Harvard University and...
SOFYA GOLDVARG, part of a wave of Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union to move to New Orleans, passed away peacefully at home on June 22, 2025 surrounded by her loved ones. She was 89.
Born in Belarus, she spent...
SHIRLEY BERSADSKY BRONSTON GOLDMAN passed away on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. She was 96 years old.
A New Orleans native, she was an original “Quiz Kid” after competing on the popular radio show of the same name in the 1940s....
EVAN F. TRESTMAN, a nationally recognized trial attorney and cherished New Orleanian, passed away peacefully, leaving behind an enduring legacy of justice, generosity, laughter, and love on Wednesday, June 11. He was 73 and only two weeks away...
FERN KRUGER, a lifelong educator, passed away in New Orleans on June 10, 2025. She was 80.
Born in New York, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Queens College and a master’s in educational psychology from...
