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CAROL ROSENTHAL SHEAR, a businesswoman, realtor, artist and teacher died June 5, 2015, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
Shear’s ever-present smile and dedication to her family and friends are among her most memorable charms.
Born in Savannah, she...
By GABRIELLE BIRKNER
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rochelle Shoretz was fond of saying, “There are no problems, only solutions.”
Her approach to life was not to dwell on bad news, but to channel the energy that friends described as boundless...
MIREL ROTTERSMAN, a Holocaust survivor who moved to New Orleans in 1951 before relocating to Michigan nine years ago, died May 25 in Bloomfield, MI. She was 93.
Rottersman, who was born in Poland, was incarcerated at the Auschwitz concentration...
GERTRUDE LIEBERMAN BEERMAN, a woman of extraordinary vitality and exuberant loving spirit died suddenly on Sunday, May 17, 2015 at her Metairie residence at the age of 97.
Beerman’s first job was with Western Union Telegraph Company. For many years...
CARL WAGNER SARETT, a retired federal Administrative Law Judge, died in Oak Park, MI on Thursday, May 14. He was 87.
Born in Brooklyn, Sarett graduated from Columbia University and was in the U.S. Army at the end of World...
SOPHIE WELSCH TEKS, a longtime resident of New Orleans who had moved to Naples, FL. following the flooding associated with Hurricane Katrina, passed away May 8, 2015. She was 98, just a little shy of six weeks of reaching what...
MILDRED LUBRITZ COVERT, the silver-haired cookbook author, who in more recent years had a second career as a commercial model and television actress, died at night on Mother’s Day, May 10, at Vista Shores Assisted Living Facility. She was 88.
...DR. SAM ABRAHAM THREEFOOT, JR, M.D., a professor emeritus of medicine at Tulane School of Medicine, died April 25, 2015. He was 94 years old.
A medical educator and researcher, Dr. Threefoot was involved in medical research for over four decades,...
DR. WILBUR ARMAND LAZARUS, D.D.S., a retired dentist who recently celebrated his 100th birthday with family and friends on April 2, died at Lambeth House on Friday, April 24.
A native of New Orleans, he graduated from Isidore Newman School...
ANN BRUM, a housewife, mother and loving grandmother, formerly of New Orleans and lately of Brooklyn, passed away on Monday, March 23, 2015. She was 89. A service and burial was conducted there.
Brum, a Holocaust survivor from...
