{"id":38635,"date":"2017-09-26T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=38635"},"modified":"2017-09-26T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:00:32","slug":"teacher-cecille-friedler-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/teacher-cecille-friedler-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Cecille Friedler to be memorialized prior to Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CECILLE MENKUS FRIEDLER, an early education teacher, passed away peacefully after fighting a lengthy illness on Monday, September 25, 2017. She was 75.<\/p>\n<p>Cecille grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas but graduated from high school in Milwaukee, WI after the schools closed for a year in Little Rock. She graduated from Newcomb College where she was president of her senior class, a member of Mortar Board and of Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority. She earned a masters\u00a0degree in Early Childhood Education from Tulane University.<\/p>\n<p>Cecille taught at Newcomb Nursery school and was active in the New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. She later volunteered at Descanso Gardens in California and was an enthusiastic docent at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. She was an active athlete swimming, playing tennis and later taking up golf, even after she had moved to the Poydras Home for care.<\/p>\n<p>Friedler was preceded in death by her son Gregory Stephen Friedler and is survived by her lhusband, Gerald &#8220;Jerry&#8221; Frank Friedler, her son, David Friedler (Shawna), her sister Dana Menkus-Tlumak (Rob), her sisters-in-law Patsy Kanter and Ann Eisen, brother-in-law Robert Eisen and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service will be held this Friday, September 29, 2017 in the Forgotston Chapel at Touro Synagogue, 4238 St. Charles Ave., at 10:00 a.m., with visitation beginning at 9:30 a.m.. Rabbi Alexis Berk will officiate.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Greg Friedler Fund for Creative Expression, c\/o Jewish Endowment Foundation, 615 Baronne St., #150, New Orleans, La 70113.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tharpsontheimerfh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tharpsontheimerfh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home of Metairie<\/a> is in charge of arrangements.<\/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=\"Teacher%20Cecille%20Friedler%20to%20be%20memorialized%20prior%20to%20Yom%20Kippur\";<\/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":[8962,8790,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38635"}],"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=38635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38636,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38635\/revisions\/38636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}