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Obituaries: Week of January 5, 2018

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January 3, 2018

Deborah Arian died Dec. 15 at 88. Survived by daughter Lisa (Larry Pollack) Arian; sons Hugh (Melissa), Lee (Nora); 6 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild; brother Jack (Sandy) Soll. Mount Sinai

Bernard Aronson died Dec. 8 at 81. Survived by wife Marilyn; daughter Leslie Munoz; sons Bruce (Debbie), David (Victoria); 8 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren. Groman Eden

Annette Corn died Dec. 9 at 85. Survived by husband Joseph; daughter Marcia (Dana) Williams; son Robert (Deb Love); 4 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild. Mount Sinai

Hilda Eisen died Nov. 22 at 100. Survived by daughters Frances Miller, Ruth, Mary Cramer; 8 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren. Chevra Kadisha

Joyce Irene Eliasoff died Nov. 16 at 88. Survived by daughter Susan (Ben) Fields; son Mark; 2 grandchildren. Groman Eden

Dorothy Essick died Dec. 13 at 93. Survived by husband Samuel C.; daughter Irma (Benny) Sommerfeld; sons Robert, Eric, Paul; 3 grandchildren; sister Alice Cantor. Mount Sinai

Howard Gottfried died Dec. 8 at 94. Survived by wife Mary Lynn; daughters Norah (Brian) Weinstein, Elizabeth (Stephane) Colling; 4 grandchildren. Hillside

Peppa Kahane died Dec. 6 at 93. Survived by son, Stephen (Janet Wells Kahane); 4 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; son-in-law Mark Baskin. Mount Sinai

Irving Kay died Dec. 5 at 93. Survived by daughters Barbara (David) Sato, Shirley; son Jack (Susan); 6 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Melvin Malat died Dec. 6 at 83. Survived by wife Marsha Cohen-Malat; daughters Wendy Weiss, Marcie (Brandon) Berry, Michelle (Brian) Good; brother Jerry (Diana); 4 grandchildren. Hillside

Sylvia Miller died Dec. 9 at 92. Survived by daughter Judith (Randall) Joyce; sons Jonathan (Penny), Ross (Eva), Donald (Amy); 8 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Marcia Mirkin died Dec. 8 at 83. Survived by daughters Judith (David), Karen Cohen; sons Stephen (Elaine), Philip; 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Lawrence Porton died Dec. 6 at 81. Survived by wife Rosalind; daughter Deborah; son Aaron (Jackie); 2 grandchildren; brother-in-law Gilbert (Janice) Ross. Mount Sinai

Marvin Reshew died Dec. 13 at 82. Survived by daughter Andrea (Michael) Tuso; sons Edward (Debbie), Fredric; 6 grandchildren; sister Caroline Eisenberg. Mount Sinai

Elaine Reynoso died Dec. 12 at 83. Survived by husband Cruz; daughter Hali (Andy Bale) Rowen; son Dean Rowen; daughter-in-law Laudon Rowen; brother Herbert Weiner. Mount Sinai

Bella Riff died Dec. 12 at 98. Survived by son Harvey; daughter-in-law Elaine Berman; 2 grandchildren; sister Sheilah Zweier. Mount Sinai

Morton Rosen died Dec. 7 at 81. Survived by wife Wendy Zwillinger; sons Zeffrin, Zachary (Danielle); 3 grandchildren. Hillside

David Rosenbaum died Dec. 11 at 62. Survived by sons Adam, Daniel; sister Judy Witt. Mount Sinai

Kitty Rozdial died Dec. 8 at 69. Survived by husband Robert Rozdial; son Daniel (Dawn) Rozdial; daughter Michelle (Daniel) Schnider; 4 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Mitchell Schoen died Dec. 14 at 62. Survived by husband Tim Williams; mother Lucille; father Herman; sister Natalie; brother Robert. Mount Sinai

Donald Schoenfeld died Dec. 6 at 96. Survived by wife Gertrude; sons Michael Jay, Kenneth, Lawrence (Carol Sue); 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Louis Jacob Schwab died Dec. 12 at 87. Survived by daughters Cheryl (Steven) Kotlowitz, Janice (Kelly) Lane; son Ronald; 8 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Herman Season died Dec. 11 at 93. Survived by daughter Barbara (Mike); son Ronald Mark (Cindy); 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Russell Singer died Dec. 7 at 52. Survived by wife Lois; daughter Bailey; son Ryan; mother Barbara Gould; father Marvin; brothers Ronald, David; brother-in-law Mike Stein. Hillside

Frances Weiss died Dec. 7 at 101. Survived by daughters Barbara Sugarman, Bonnie Payne; 2 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Gerald Weisstein died Dec. 8 at 78. Survived by wife Wendy Wiggins-Weisstein; son Jason; 2 grandchildren. Hillside

Molly Winkler died Dec. 15 at 85. Survived by husband Bruno; daughter Sheri (James); son Alan; 4 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Mireille Wolfe died Dec. 9 at 75. Survived by husband Barry; daughters Rebeka Bieber, Lisa; sons Erik Bieber, Lee; 5 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Paul Woods died Dec. 12 at 97. Survived by daughters Terry Karsh, Joan (Mark) Simon, Patti (Marshall) Goldberg; 7 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren; sisters Esther Jaeckal, Evelyn Litwin, Shirley Pearlin. Mount Sinai 

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