{"id":40571,"date":"2018-01-03T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=40571"},"modified":"2018-01-05T18:44:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T00:44:32","slug":"advertising-executive-realtor-joseph-epstein-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/advertising-executive-realtor-joseph-epstein-expires\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising executive, realtor Joseph Epstein expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOSEPH HUGO EPSTEIN, an advertising and marketing executive, died at home on January 1, 2018, following a long illness. A lifelong resident of New Orleans, he was well-known in advertising and commercial real estate circles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40577\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Epstein_Joseph.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40577\" class=\"wp-image-40577 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Epstein_Joseph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Epstein_Joseph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Epstein_Joseph-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-40577\" class=\"wp-image-40577 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Epstein_Joseph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Epstein_Joseph-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Epstein_Joseph-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-40577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JOSEPH EPSTEIN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A graduate of Isidore Newman School, Epstein&nbsp;matriculated at the University of Michigan and graduated with honors in journalism. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. PCE 904, as the Commanding Officer at the time of decommissioning. After his military service, Joe returned to New Orleans and worked at Fitzgerald Advertising Agency. From Fitzgerald, he continued his advertising career with Walker Saussy Advertising, William B. Reily and Bauerlein.<\/p>\n<p>A mentor to many,&nbsp;Epstein taught evening classes in advertising and marketing at both Loyola University and Tulane University.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoyed a subsequent second career in commercial real estate as a broker with Latter &amp; Blum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Active in the Jewish community, he served on the boards of Temple Sinai, Touro Infirmary, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Children&#8217;s Home Service.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein also served on professional and civic boards for the community-at-large including the Advertising Club of New Orleans, the Southeast Louisiana Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Cottage School, Friends of the New Orleans Public Library, Interracial Council for Business Opportunites, Junior Achievement, Mayor&#8217;s Citizen&#8217;s Advisory Committee, Longue Vue House and Gardens, Mayor&#8217;s Citizens Advisory Committee of Housing Improvement, Isidore Newman School, New Orleans Cultural Attractions Fund, New Orleans Development Services, Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff&#8217;s Advisory Service, Rotary Club of New Orleans and United Way for Greater New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>A fount of information and misinformation, Joe was the author of the Blake Pontchartrain column for Gambit Weekly.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife of 64 years Margaret Blum Epstein, his children&nbsp;Katherine Seligman (Charles), Nancy Oswald (Mark) and Joseph Hugh &#8220;Jep&#8221; Epstein III (Tiffany Adler), and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A service took place at Temple Sinai, 6227 St. Charles Avenue, on Friday, January 5, 2018, at 11.00 a.m. and was followed by a family burial at Metairie Cemetery. Rabbi Matthew Reimer and Cantor Joel Colman officiated.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, donations are suggested to Isidore Newman School, the Greater New Orleans Foundation or the&nbsp;charity of your choice<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/423686928\/prod\/obit-aff\/obit-premium\/clio-inline-1&amp;t=clio%3DCOYCALZ%26cobrand%3Dnola%26linkurl%3Dhttp%3A\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/nola\/condolences-charities.aspx%3Fkeyword%3Dcoycalz%26pid%3D187704191%26fn%3DJoseph%26ln%3DEpstein&amp;sz=1x1&amp;c=366638612\">.&nbsp; Funeral services were provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tharpsontheimerfh.com\">Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home of Metairie<\/a>.&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=\"Advertising%20executive%2C%20realtor%20Joseph%20Epstein%20expires\";<\/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":[19],"tags":[8790,8795,9129,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40571"}],"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=40571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40637,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40571\/revisions\/40637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}