{"id":39269,"date":"2017-11-06T04:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T10:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=39269"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:16:23","slug":"investor-james-j-altman-passes-funeral-in-ky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/investor-james-j-altman-passes-funeral-in-ky\/","title":{"rendered":"Investor James J. Altman passes; funeral in KY."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMES J. ALTMAN, a retired\u00a0investor, died on Shabbat morning, November 4, 2017 at Passages Hospice from complications of acute heart failure and dementia. He was 94.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39295\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/James-J-Altman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39295\" class=\"wp-image-39295 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/James-J-Altman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/James-J-Altman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/James-J-Altman-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39295\" class=\"wp-image-39295 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/James-J-Altman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/James-J-Altman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/James-J-Altman-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-39295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JAMES J. ALTMAN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A no-nonsense Republican, Altman was a tireless defender of the State of Israel and a former board member of Congregation Beth Israel until illness prevented his regular attendance at religious services there.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Louisville, KY., Altman graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1941 and attended Louisiana State University, where he earned a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Business Management in 1944. While attending LSU, he met Naomi Theresa Gehr, a native of Alexandria, LA. Following his graduation, they married in January of 1945 and moved to Louisville. He became a communications\u00a0officer of field artillery in Europe as World War II wound down and continued his service in the Kentucky National Guard for two additional decades. Following his return to Louisville, Altman was a businessman there and associated with Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, where he raised his family. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America in the synagogue&#8217;s Troop 30 with his sons in the 1960s, serving as an assistant scoutmaster.<\/p>\n<p>Following retirement, the Altmans moved to New Orleans, where he became an investor. Following the death of his first wife in 2000, he remarried the former Sabina Chapman and the two enjoyed maintaining a Jewish home and traveling together. They were students together at the now renamed Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning and attended a\u00a0 sponsored school summer course at Hebrew University in Israel in 2009. Altman was active in the Republican Party and was often seen riding his motorized scooter around town well into his late eighties.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his second wife Sabina Altman; sons Joel G. Altman, 71, of Houston, TX., Ross S. Altman, 68, of Newtown, PA., and Benjamin C. Altman, 64, of Appleton, WI.; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Graveside services were held at the Congregation Adath Jeshurun Cemetery on Tuesday, November 7, at 11:00 a.m. Donations are suggested to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migdalohrusa.org\/usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Friends of Migdal Ohr<\/a> or to <a href=\"https:\/\/bethisraelnola.com\/contribute-to-a-specific-fund-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congregation Beth Israel<\/a>.<\/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=\"Investor%20James%20J.%20Altman%20passes%3B%20funeral%20in%20KY.\";<\/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":[9030,8790,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269"}],"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=39269"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39297,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269\/revisions\/39297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}