{"id":41439,"date":"2018-03-05T15:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=41439"},"modified":"2019-04-22T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:29:04","slug":"memorial-held-for-dr-george-sterne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/memorial-held-for-dr-george-sterne\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial held for Dr. George Sterne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ctl00_MainContentPlaceholder_Text\" class=\"ObitTextContent\">GEORGE GERSHON STERNE, M.D., 85, a&nbsp;retired pediatrician who died in Seattle, WA. on November 7, 2017, was remembered just a few days before what would have been his 86th birthday with a&nbsp;memorial to his life at Temple Sinai on Sunday, March 4.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ObitTextContent\">The memorial service was officiated by Rabbi Ed Paul Cohn at 1:00 p.m. in the synagogue&#8217;s Feibelman Chapel, 6227 St. Charles Avenue.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ObitTextContent\">A native of Albany,&nbsp;Georgia, Dr. Sterne practiced pediatrics for more than 50 years and was a noted advocate for early childhood education and child health.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ObitTextContent\">He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Sylvia Stahl Sterne, their children Mark Shabot Sterne (Pilar) of San Francisco; Steven Gary Sterne (Jennifer Lynn Dice) of Seattle, WA and Susan Sterne (Peter Kellers) of Portland, OR., siblings Lee M. Sterne, Jr., Pauline Sterne Schochet, and Carla Sterne Linn (Steve);&nbsp;and three grandchildren.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ObitTextContent\">Memorials are preferred to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 141 Northwest Point Blvd, Elk Grove, IL. 60007-1098, Planned Parenthood, 4636 So. Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, LA. 70125 or The New Orleans Public Library Foundation, 938 Lafayette Street, Suite 322, New Orleans, LA. 70113.<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl00_MainContentPlaceholder_ObituaryTextFHLogoContainer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\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=\"Memorial%20held%20for%20Dr.%20George%20Sterne\";<\/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":[9217,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41439"}],"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=41439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48364,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41439\/revisions\/48364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}