Obituaries

Lilyan G. (Rubin) Donner, 95, of Bloomfield, passed away on Saturday, October 31, 2009. Born in Naugatuck, CT on April 11, 1914, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Yetta Rubin. She was a 1932 graduate of Naugatuck High School. Widow of Milton Donner, she lived in New York City and Waterbury, CT where she operated an antiques...

DAVIS, Francine C. (Swirsky) Davis, 70, of Enfield, CT died Monday, November 10, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT, after a courageous six year battle with lung cancer. She was the widow of Edward C. Davis. Born in The Bronx, NY, she was the daughter of the late Sam and Lillian (Poretz) Swirsky. She lived...

Steven J. Futterman, 45 years of age, of Hartford, died Monday, August 19, 2013. Born in Hartford, he was the son of Carl and Marsha (Carver) Futterman of Farmington. Besides his parents he leaves his sister, Wendy Camassar and her husband Steven of Columbia, MD. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at Fairview...

Estelle Hecht Geller died on November 27, 2022. She was born in Brooklyn, New York on New Year’s Day 1927 to immigrant parents Julius and Eva (Knobler) Hecht. Her brother Max, sister-in-law Bess, and husband Lester of seventy-three years predeceased her. With her father and brother, she shared a lifelong fascination with nature and the cosmos. At age fifteen she...

FURMAN, Rose (Friedman) Furman, 95, of Seabury Drive, Bloomfield, formerly of Windsor and Avon, died Tuesday, August 14, 2007. She was the widow of Max H. Furman. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, she was the daughter of the late Harry and Fannie (Raichman) Friedman. She and her husband Max were long time residents of Windsor having resided there until 1963...

Deborah (Fox) Fine, 62, of Gordon Dr., South Windsor, wife of Harvey Fine, died Monday (April 30, 2007). Born in Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Shirley (Asterkin) Fox. She was a member of the South Windsor Town Council for the past ten years, a member of the South Windsor Democratic Town Committee; a leader...

Samantha A. Cook, 49, of Vernon passed away on Tuesday February 3rd, 2015. Beloved wife of Daryl Cook for 19 years. Born in Hartford, CT. Daughter of Sheldon Dolinger and the late Cynthia Kone Dolinger of Newington, CT. In addition to her husband and father, she is survived by sister Julie Dolinger Cushman, brother in-law Guy Cushman, and sister Dr....

Pearl Shirley Banks, of Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, widow of Morris Banks died Saturday, (March 29, 2008). Born in Hartford she was a graduate of Central Connecticut State Teachers College and had worked at Eleanor Rose Dress Shop in Farmington and at the D&L Department Store in Simsbury. She is survived by two sons, Marc Banks and his wife, Joyce...

ETELIS, Jack Norman Etelis, 90, of West Hartford, CT, passed away on Saturday August 30, 2008, surrounded by family. He was born in Hartford, son of the late David and Jenny ( Bonderow) Etelis. After graduating from Weaver High School, he went on to graduate from the Connecticut College of Pharmacy in 1940, which is now part of the University...

Phyllis L. Edelson, 88, of Farmington, formerly of Plainville, beloved and devoted wife of 63 years of the late Dr. Irving M. Edelson, passed away on Saturday (December 8, 2012). Phyllis was born in New York City on October 29, 1924. She was the cherished daughter of the late Emma “Esther” (Baron) and Solomon Landwald, who had immigrated to the...

COHEN, Robert M. Cohen, 53, of Overhill Road, West Hartford, died Friday, April 28, 2006 at home with his family at his side. Born in Baltimore, MD, he was the son of the late Abraham and Sarah (Gersh) Cohen. In 1977 Bob graduated from Brandeis University, and he received a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Pittsburgh. He...

BENANAV, Joshua Benanav, 84, of White Plains, NY, formerly of West Hartford, CT, died Saturday, March 24, 2007. Born Joshua Szereny in Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia on November 18, 1922, he was the son of the late Bertha (Freiberg) and Bela Szereny. Bela was the first Jew to be awarded an Iron Cross in the Austo-Hungarian Army during World War I; he...

Daniel Feldman, 90, of Ellington, formerly of Davie, Florida and New York, New York died Saturday, (August 29, 2009) at Hartford Hospital after a long illness. He was the loving and devoted husband of Lily Feldman for 66 years and missed her dearly since her death on October 17, 2007. He was a wonderful and supportive father to his three...

The family of Juliette Greene announces her passing at age 102. A resident of both Duncaster and Caleb-Hitchcock Care Center in Bloomfield, and formerly a long-time resident of West Hartford, she died on June 4. Juliette was born in New Britain on Feb. 2, 1922, the daughter of Louis and “Goldie” Novick. She was predeceased by nine siblings. Juliette leaves...

Lillian Beinart Golden, 97, a resident of Boca Raton, FL and former long-term resident of Hartford, passed away peacefully on January 29, 2015. Lillian was predeceased by her late husband, Julius Golden. She was born in Brooklyn, NY, and moved to Hartford with Julius in 1940. Lillian is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Rochelle and William Golden of Boca...

Dorothy Emanuel, 88, formerly of Edison, NJ, died Sunday, (July 27, 2008) in Bloomfield. Dorothy was born on January 30, 1920, in Brooklyn, NY, the daughter of Joseph and Bertha (Muhlberg) Falick. On June 30, 1944, she married Salvatore Emanuel of Brooklyn, and they shared 49 joyful years of marriage until his death in 1993. She moved to Duncaster Retirement...

FRIEDMAN, Priscilla A. (Fielding) Friedman, 71, of Norwich died Tuesday, June 19, 2007. Born in Middletown, she was the daughter of the late Raymond and Irene (Birnbaum) Fielding. She was a member of the Sisterhood of Brothers of Joseph Synagogue in Norwich. She leaves two sons, Max Friedman of North Franklin, and Irving Friedman of Ellington; and a sister, Ruby...

Beatrice (Goldberg) Cohn, 92, of West Hartford, formerly of Avon and New Britain, died Monday (January 2, 2006). She was the beloved wife of the late David Goldberg. She leaves her children Barbara and Marc Stahl, Mark and Elinor Goldberg, Bruce and Sandra Goldberg, Henry and Rochelle Baran. She also leaves her grandchildren Elizabeth Stahl and Steve Emerson, Deborah and...

Sadie Kaplan Mindell Greenspon, 106 years of age, died Wednesday, September 9, 2009. She was born in Kiev, Russia in 1903, daughter of David Kaplan, and came to this country at the age of four. Sadie later became the oldest girl in a family of 12 children, most of whom she was called upon to care for. Her relief from...

Passed away June 20th. Hartford Association of Invalid Veterans of World War II. Survived by his father Boris Greydinger. He is loved and missed by every member of Hartford Association of Invalid Veterans. Medovoy and Wife Era.