{"id":40318,"date":"2017-12-16T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T23:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=40318"},"modified":"2017-12-16T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T23:49:32","slug":"mollye-p-smolkin-services-set-for-tuesday-dec-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/mollye-p-smolkin-services-set-for-tuesday-dec-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollye P. Smolkin services set for Tuesday, Dec. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOLLYE PLOTKA SMOLKIN, a former office manager in a successful and nationally-recognized real estate consulting firm and a homemaker, died Thursday, December 14 at Woldenberg Village. She was 92.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Mobile, Alabama, she married her childhood sweetheart at the age of 19 as a war bride.&nbsp; Following her husband&#8217;s service in World War II, the couple moved to New Orleans to raise their family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She helped to found and manage her husband&#8217;s real estate consulting firm and also used her financial management skills to benefit the Willow Wood Home (now Woldenberg Village) and freely gave back to other community institutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She enjoyed cooking and was happy to share gourmet meals with family and friends as they welcomed Shabbat. Considered a courageous woman of valor by many, she spent much of her last years battling Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease at her beloved Woldenberg Village.<\/p>\n<p>She was predeceased by her husband of 71 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/william-smolkin-rites-set-for-sunday\/\">William Smolkin<\/a>, in 2016. She is survived by her children Stuart Smolkin (Jeanne), Brad Smolkin (Melinda) and Shelly Hebert (John), and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The funeral&nbsp;will be held on Tuesday, December 19, in the Feibelman Chapel of Temple Sinai, corner Henry Clay and St. Charles Avenue at 1:00 p.m.&nbsp;Visitation will begin at noon.&nbsp;Rabbi emeritus Edward P. Cohn and Cantor Joel Colman will both officiate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A burial will follow immediately at Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3, 2003 Pelopidas St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to Temple Sinai, 6227 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=\"Mollye%20P.%20Smolkin%20services%20set%20for%20Tuesday%2C%20Dec.%2019\";<\/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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19],"tags":[8790,8795,9097,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318"}],"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=40318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40319,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318\/revisions\/40319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}