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October 07, 2014
MADELINE L. SCHEINUK, passed away from heart failure on Sunday, October 5, 2014. She was 94.
Although she did assist other family members in work at Scheinuk the Florist on St. Charles Avenue during holidays and other busy times of...
October 01, 2014
JOSEPH COHEN, a highly regarded and longtime Newcomb College (and Tulane University professor), who founded the Jewish Studies Program that has since been established as the Jewish Studies Department at Tulane, died on Thursday, September 25, 2014 in New Orleans....
September 19, 2014
MARK STEVEN GREENBERG, age 65, died on Thursday evening, September 18, 2014 after a brave battle with prostate cancer, surrounded by the love of his family and close friends.
Known best as a career agent for several insurance agencies such...
September 18, 2014
OTTO AARON LEVY, a retired insurance agent and broker, died September 15, 2014 in New Orleans. He was 88.
A native of New Orleans, he was reared during the Depression era. Levy attended Alcee Fortier High School for a time...
September 16, 2014
SHIRLEY HEIMAN ERMON EASON, who devoted much of her life as a teacher and school administrator and later worked as a successful real estate agent, died on Saturday, September 13.
A New Orleans native, she received a bachelor’s degree in...
September 14, 2014
ALVIN “AL” CHARLES REZNIK, 77, a former newspaper reporter, radio news director and public relations executive, died on Thursday, September 12 after a lengthy illness.
Reznik’s lifelong career as a journalist and writer began in the Midwest near his hometown...
September 03, 2014
SYLVIA KAPELOW EVENSKY, who worked in commercial real estate development, died September 3. She was 95.
Evensky, who was an administrator with her husband Herbert for her brother Paul Kapelow, a shopping mall and commercial real estate developer, retired many...
September 03, 2014
NEW YORK (JTA) — Comic-book artist Stan Goldberg, the color designer for Marvel Comics’ classic superheroes, has died.
Goldberg, known to comic-book fans as “Stan G,” died Sunday at Cavalry Hospital in the Bronx. He was 82.
He was inducted...
September 02, 2014
MORRIS HERMAN, a successful antiques dealer and jeweler, who ran the J. Herman Son Antiques store on Royal Street, died peacefully at his home in New Orleans on Tuesday morning, September 2, 2014. He was 85 years old.
Herman was...
September 02, 2014
BARRY JAY MASON, a career worker in the hotel and restaurant businesses, passed away peacefully on August 30, 2014. He was 63.
A native and lifelong resident of New Orleans, Mason worked at the Crazy Lobster Restaurant at the time...