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JUDITH CLARE COHEN, a wife and mother, died Friday, January 15, 2016, at the age of 72.
Cohen was a graduate of Fortier High School and matriculated to Louisiana State University at New Orleans, where she received a bachelor’s degree...
SIDNEY H. ANTIN, M.D., a retired internist who had a successful medical practice for over 50 years, died on Thursday January 14, 2016, after a lengthy illness. He was 91.
A New Orleans native, he graduated from Louisiana State University Medical School in...
JIMMY GLICKMAN, the convivial owner of the New Orleans Music Exchange, an independent music equipment and accessories store, died suddenly yesterday, January 14, 2016. He was 52.
Located at the corner of Magazine Street and Louisiana Avenue, the store was...
ARNOLD JEROME BENNETT, 97, a clothing manufacturer, who was credited with sparking and maintaining the fashion trend of bell-bottom blue jeans in the 1960s and 1970s, died on Monday, January 11, while in hospice care.
Known as “Jim” to his...
JOAN LEVY SHERIDAN, a retired administrative assistant who lived in New Orleans for the past two decades, died peacefully in her sleep at Canon Hospice on Friday, Dec. 11. She was 84.
Sheridan, a native of Chicago, worked for the...
VERA SALOMON SOLODKY, a former resident of New Orleans who lived most of her life an adult in Lancaster, PA., died yesterday, December 5, after a long illness at Masonic Health Care Center in nearby Elizabethtown. She was 93.
She...
DOROTHY “DOT” SHUSHAN, a well-known community leader and volunteer, died December 2, 2015, at her New Orleans home following a long illness.
She and her sister Sylvia were noted as having married two brothers – Abraham Louis “A. L.” and...
BEVERLY NOLAN JACOBS, a retired nurse educator, who served in the United States Air Force (USAF) at home and abroad, died on November 17 after a long recurrent battle with metastatic cancer. She was 89.
A native of Metairie, she...
NORMAN MOPSIK, an attorney-at-law who had retired from his private practice, died on Thanksgiving Day, November 26 at Passages Hospice. He was 87.
A native of Newark, NJ., Mopsik became a New Orleans resident in 1960. He graduated from Southern...
HYMAN TOLMAS, M.D., a retired pediatrician who was considered an authority in the subfield of Adolescent Medicine, died after a short illness on Wednesday, November 11, in Dallas, TX.
A New Orleans native, Tolmas enrolled in the undergraduate program at...
