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GULNARE ‘GUBER’ BERNSTEIN MARKS, a member of Touro Synagogue and an active New Orleans community volunteer, died on Sunday, May 4 at the age of 91.
A woman who exuded style and elegance, she was a tireless worker for her...
RUTH FREEDMAN SCHWAM, a member of Touro Synagogue, wife and mother died yesterday morning, May 3, 2014 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 83.
Born one of a set of very rare triplets back in May of...
(JTA) — Al Feldstein, the editor of Mad magazine for nearly three decades, has died. Feldstein died Tuesday at his home in Montana. He was 88.
He became editor of Mad in 1956 and remained at the satirical publication’s helm until...
By JULI HART MILLER
DR. ELLIS RALPH LUPIN, M.D., a prominent New Orleans physician, philanthropist, attorney, civic leader and public servant, died Thursday morning, May 1, after a valiant battle with cancer. He was 83.
A native and lifelong resident of New...
JANET KAHN WALLFISCH, a reporter for the Times-Picayune for 25 years and whose early writing dealt largely with the Jewish community, died on Sunday, April 27. She was 95.
Wallfisch’s career began in the mid-1960s, when the newspaper office was...
LUCILLE GERMAIN, a self-employed accountant, wife and mother, died Saturday, April 26 in New Orleans. She was 88.
She is survived by her daughter Lisa Germain (Bennet Koren).
The funeral was held on Monday, April 28, at 1:30 p.m. at...
ISADORE DAVID BRICKMAN, M.D., a thoracic and general surgeon who was director of New Orleans Charity Hospital under the first Governor Edwin Edwards administration in 1972 through 1974 and spent most of his professional career on the staffs of several...
SAMUEL THEODORE “TED” STERNBERG, the owner of Ted’s Frostop, an initial Uptown restaurant franchise that he transformed into a fast food empire with 15 locations throughout New Orleans and elsewhere, died Friday, April 18, 2014.
A native New Orleanian, Sternberg...
HERBERT JOHN LINGONI, a retired executive with the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, who also worked as a bookkeeper at Advance Lock Company, passed away peacefully at his Metairie home on Saturday, April 12. He was 86.
Lingoni began work...
John Clemmer, an artist, teacher and longtime Tulane University professor, regarded as a mainstay of cultural life in New Orleans since the late 1930s, died Friday, April 11 in Milwaukee. He was 92.
Clemmer’s first solo exhibit in 1948 was...
