{"id":29741,"date":"2016-04-27T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T03:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=29741"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:18:12","slug":"marcus-usprich-dies-unexpectedly-funeral-thursday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/marcus-usprich-dies-unexpectedly-funeral-thursday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Usprich dies unexpectedly; funeral held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARCUS D. USPRICH, a salesman, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at Tulane Medical Center. He was 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Known by friends and family as \u201cCorky,\u201d he was a longtime salesman for Zales Jewelry, known for his wonderful sense of humor and an impish appreciation for rock music. In recent years he specialized in the sale of vintage toys.<\/p>\n<p>A native of New Orleans, Usprich was a graduate of Bellfaire Jewish Children\u2019s Bureau (JCB) in Shaker Heights, Ohio, located just outside of Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Debra Huber Usprich; fraternal twins Julia and Edwin Usprich; his brother Jonathan Hal Usprich of St. Louis, MO. and Naomi Usprich Kirby of Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Graveside services were held at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 28 at Jewish Burial Rites Cemetery, 4321 Frenchmen Street. Rabbi Yossi Nemes officiated.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the family are appreciated at 310B Ormond Meadows Drive, Destrehan, LA 70047.<\/p>\n<p>Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home of Metairie was in charge of arrangements. For more information call 504-835-231.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Marcus%20Usprich%20dies%20unexpectedly%3B%20funeral%20held\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8790,8795,7809,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29753,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741\/revisions\/29753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}