{"id":5293,"date":"2013-02-14T07:29:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T13:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2013-02-14T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:54:29","slug":"bertha-paglin-ferman-washington-realtor-schoolteacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/bertha-paglin-ferman-washington-realtor-schoolteacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertha Paglin Ferman, Washington realtor &#038; schoolteacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERTHA PAGLIN FERMAN, a schoolteacher and successful realtor in the Washington, D.C. area, \u00a0passed away unexpectedly in Denver, Colorado on Saturday, January 19, 2013. A New Orleans native, she was affectionately known as &#8220;Birdie&#8221; and attended Isadore Newman School before her graduation from Sophie Newcomb College.<\/p>\n<p>She was predeceased by her husband of 50 years, Professor Irving Ferman, who served as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union during the height of the McCarthyism period from 1948 to 1959. from 1947-1997. She loved to play tennis and was a patron of the arts and enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. During the four decades of her residency in Washington, D.C., she spent her summers residing at the family vacation home in Sullivan Harbor, Maine, where she explored the coastline, oftentimes capturing it on paintings. She was a longtime member of the National Council of Jewish Women in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Ferman is survived by daughter Susan Baldwin of Denver and son James of Wickenburg, Arizona. Graveside services officiated by Rabbi Edward Paul Cohn will take place at Hebrew Rest Mausoleum (Frenchmen at Pelopidas Streets) on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the charity of your choice. Arrangements by Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home. Online condolences may be expressed <a title=\"Tharp Sontheimer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tharpsontheimer.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/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=\"Bertha%20Paglin%20Ferman%2C%20Washington%20realtor%20%26%20schoolteacher\";<\/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":[1974,1452,8790,8795,8788,8839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"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=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}