Nat Halpern, retired insurance agent is buried here

NATHAN “NAT” HALPERN, a retired insurance agent for Stone Insurance Company for decades, died Friday afternoon, July 26 at the Carpenter House, a hospice house in Baton Rouge. He was 91.

Halpern, an outgoing and gregarious man was also an inveterate poet and a song composer, billing himself as a “well known songwriter of little known songs.” Oftentimes, he would carry his notebooks filled with lyrics of his songs and sing them for clients and friends.

A New Orleans native, Halpern had been living in  a residence in Prairieville after his retirement, but moved to Baton Rouge for hospice care. A longtime member of Temple Sinai, he is survived by his wife Marianne Hinkley Halpern; a stepdaughter Anette Lomm and a brother Leonard Halpern. Halpern was predeceased by his former wife, Regina Goldberg Lomm, a Holocaust survivor.

Graveside services were conducted yesterday, Sunday, July 28 at 4:00 p.m., by Rabbi Ed Paul Cohn at Hebrew Rest Cemetery. Ascension Funeral Home in Gonzales was in charge of arrangements.