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February 27, 2019

Charles Bailin died Feb. 4 at 83. Survived by daughter Kimberly; son Steve (Aileen); 2 grandchildren; sister Mary. Mount Sinai

Dorothy Barnett died Jan. 28 at 96. Survived by daughters Adela, Linda; son Howard. Hillside 

Josef Ben-Porat died Jan. 23 at 94. Survived by wife Claire; 1 grandchild.

Eliana Berlfein died Jan. 31 at 64. Survived by sisters Davia Rivka, Jan (Rick) Burns, Judy (Dadla Ponizil). Greenwood and Myers, Mountain View Cemetery, Boulder, Colo.

Natasha Bomeisler died Feb. 3 at 91. Survived by husband Donald; daughter Susan (Steven). Hillside

Marilyn Janice (Lewin) Cooper died Jan. 30 at 74. Survived by daughter Heather (Mario) Ortner; sons Andrew (Julie), Steven (Lora Blum); 5 five grandchildren. Hillside

Rhonda Daniels died Feb. 6 at 83. Survived by sons Robert (Lynn), Steven (Leoni), Marc; 4 grandchildren. Hillside 

Warren Clifford Deutsch died Feb. 4 at 83. Survived by wife Elaine; daughter Lisa (James Abke); son Geoffrey (Laura); 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

William “Bill” Firestone died Jan. 26 at 97. Survived by sons Jeff (Wanatana), Randall (Ananya), Gary; 4 grandchildren; brother Nathan. Mount Sinai 

Richard Friedman died Feb. 3 at 94. Survived by wife Harriet; daughters Ellen Jean (Louis), Julie Ann (Robert); son Andrew; 6 grandchildren. Hillside

Michael Barry Gerber died Feb. 8 at 61. Survived by wife, Gail; daughter Jenica (Jason) Visenberg; son Adam (Abby); 1 grandchild; sister Sharon Dellimagine; brother Howard. Mount Sinai

 Lorraine Audrey Glocer died Jan. 31 at 86. Survived by son Alan (Susan); 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Sonia Gottlieb died Feb. 3 at 90. Survived by daughter Ruth West; son Rene (Deborah); 2 grandchildren; brothers Abraham Golceker, Michael Golceker. Mount Sinai

Arthur Gurewitz died Feb. 5 at 89. Survived by wife Rosemarie; daughter Lori Ann Maimone; 1 grandchild. Mount Sinai

Betty Helfen died Feb. 5 at 98. Survived by sons Spencer, Mark (Vicki Schifferli), Alan (Jane) Helfen; 1 grandchild. Mount Sinai

Rebecca Levy died Dec. 24 at 100. Survived by daughter Jacqueline (Barry) Bereskin; son Alan  (Rhonda); 4 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren. Eden Memorial

Alan Livingston died Jan. 31 at 90. Survived by daughters Jan Hillman, Linda (Joel) Brill; 3 grandchildren; 5 great- grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Sylvia Neiman died Jan. 29 at 96. Survived by sons Jeffrey (Lynda), Ivan (Donna); 1 grandchild; brother Jack. Hillside

Irwin Petlak died Jan. 17 at 83. Survived by wife Marilyn; daughters Sandra Bledy, Liz (Gerald) Goldman, Andréa (Jeff) Bacon; 6 grandchildren; brother Jack. Mount Sinai

Melvin Roebuck died Jan. 25 at 93. Survived by wife Edith; daughters Ellen, Laura (Bill) Meehan; sons Josh, Daniel (Laura); 3 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; sister Gloria Stewart; daughter-in-law Louesa. Mount Sinai 

Harriet Sacks died Sept. 3 at 93. Survived by daughters Susan (Ira) Halpern, Ida Saucedo; son Andy; 4 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren. Shalom Chapel

Suzanne Klein Simon died Feb. 7 at 84. Survived by daughter Stacey (Victor); sons Howard (Lidia), Ronald (Cherie); brother George (Barbara); 7 grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren. Hillside

Curt Spiegel died Jan. 28 at 93. Survived by nephew Peter Markus. Riverside National Cemetery

Dorothy Stark died Jan. 28 at 104. Survived by nephew Norman (Chashia) Smoller. Mount Sinai 

Albert Stein died Dec. 21 at 90. Survived by daughters Laura (Stephen) Olson, Sharon Frederick; 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai.

Sadie Dubitsky Wolpert died Jan. 8 at 100. Survived by daughters Sharon, Noreen (Fred) Wolpert Heiser; 2 grandchildren. Chevra Kadisha

Franklin Wurtzel died Feb. 6 at 76. Survived by wife Karen; sons Marc (Stacey), Jonathan (Christian); brother Stephen; 1 grandchild. Hillside 

Lois Zells died Feb. 5 at 80. Survived by sons David, Michael. Hillside

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