{"id":86859,"date":"2025-03-27T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=86859"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:48:15","slug":"former-registered-nurse-anita-lambert-watsky-graveside-service-is-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/former-registered-nurse-anita-lambert-watsky-graveside-service-is-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Former registered nurse Anita Lambert Watsky graveside service is held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANITA LAMBERT WATSKY, a dedicated registered nurse, died on Sunday, March 22. She was 82.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86860\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Anita_Watsky.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86860\" class=\"wp-image-86860 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Anita_Watsky-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Anita_Watsky-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Anita_Watsky-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-86860\" class=\"wp-image-86860 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Anita_Watsky-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Anita_Watsky-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Anita_Watsky-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-86860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ANITA L. WATSKY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A native of Reserve, LA., she graduated from the Hotel Dieu School of Nursing before beginning a career at Charity Hospital and various medical offices in New Orleans and in Metairie.<\/p>\n<p>An avid reader and devoted book collector, she had a deep love for dogs, particularly devoted to the Schipperkes breed of small dogs that hailed from Flanders. She ran a dog-training service as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Watsky enjoyed traveling abroad and explored China, France, Germany, Egypt, Holland, Thailand, Turkey and Switzerland, to name but a few countries she toured.<\/p>\n<p>She was married for 30 years to her huband Dan Watsky until the time of his passing in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her daughter Joelle Halpern (Edward), her sister, Brenda Zimmerman (Bill); and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A graveside service was held on Thursday, March 27,&nbsp; at Hebrew Rest Cemetery No. 3, 2101 Pelopidas Street at 11:00 a.m. Rabbi David Gerber officiated.<\/p>\n<p>Mourners were requested not to wear black, but instead to wear her favorite color, red, at the graveside service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are requested&nbsp; to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lls.org\/ways-to-give\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society<\/a> in honor of former GNO Chapter President, Dan Watsky.<\/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=\"Former%20registered%20nurse%20Anita%20Lambert%20Watsky%20graveside%20service%20is%20held\";<\/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":[14517,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86859"}],"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=86859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86868,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86859\/revisions\/86868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}