{"id":87265,"date":"2025-04-11T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=87265"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:39:21","slug":"former-bridal-coordinator-and-retail-sales-clerk-sylvia-stone-shushan-is-dead-at-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/former-bridal-coordinator-and-retail-sales-clerk-sylvia-stone-shushan-is-dead-at-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Former bridal coordinator and retail sales clerk Sylvia Stone Shushan is dead at 107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYLVIA STONE SHUSAN,&nbsp; passed away on April 6, 2025. She was 107.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87266\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-at-1001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87266\" class=\"wp-image-87266 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-at-1001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-at-1001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-at-1001-350x350.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-87266\" class=\"wp-image-87266 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-at-1001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-at-1001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sylvia-at-1001-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-87266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SYLVIA STONE SHUSHAN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She married Shepard Shushan in 1948, a marriage that lasted for 14 years until his death, making her a widow at the age of 42. Though she was a not a native, she grew to love New Orleans and lived in the Uptown dream home in which she and her husband raised their two girls.&nbsp; She often entertained a close-knit group of friends and family. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following her husband&#8217;s death, Shushan became the bridal coordinator for Maison Blanche on Canal Street for many years.&nbsp; She loved working with brides and their mothers and to this day women say \u201cMrs. Shushan married me.\u201d &nbsp;She was also an active member of the Fashion Group. &nbsp;After Maison Blanche closed, Sylvia worked as the bridal coordinator at Gus Mayer. &nbsp;She next worked at Ruffles women\u2019s clothing store in Uptown Square and then for many years at British Antiques on Magazine Street, retiring at 92.&nbsp; She made lifelong friends wherever she was.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She was on a first-name basis with every merchant and antique dealer in the French Quarter and loved jazz music and New Orleans culture.&nbsp; At one of the more memorable parties she hosted for her friends was a production of &#8220;<em>One Mo\u2019 Time<\/em>&#8221; at the Toulouse Theatre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Always elegant, Sylvia never skimped on clothes, although she saved S&amp;H Green Stamps and clipped coupons religiously.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her two daughters Sally Shushan and Elle Shushan, who lives in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be private.&nbsp; In lieu of flowers, a donation to your favorite charity is appreciated.&nbsp;&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=\"Former%20bridal%20coordinator%20and%20retail%20sales%20clerk%20Sylvia%20Stone%20Shushan%20is%20dead%20at%20107\";<\/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":[8790,8795,8788,14574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265"}],"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=87265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87268,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265\/revisions\/87268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}